michedea_books_ 's review for:

Murder on Line One by Jeremy Vine

3.0

emotional funny hopeful informative slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Edward Temming was a very popular radio host until he never get over the death of his son Matty which he was partly involved in. He always blames himself. He got made redundant from his employer and now works in a garden centre. When one of his ex-listeners is murdered, he takes himself on to investigate it. Which it soon appears that the death is connected to some dating scams where ladies of a certain age and scammed for their money. 

Murder on Line one is a murder mystery whodunnit by BBC journalist Jeremy vine. And intrigued to read after being taken in by the blurb and the advanced praise from other authors. 

I really wanted to like this book from Jeremy Vine but, I found that this first 40% very over descriptive and disjointed that I couldn’t really connect to it at all.  It only started getting interesting when Edward went into further investigation of the dating scams. But by then it was too late. 3 stars from me.