A review by ericwelch
An Accidental Death by Peter Grainger

4.0

A young man on an outing with friends dives into the river to follow a canoe. He goes around the bend and his body is located the next day along the shore. At first glance it appears to be an accidental drowning, but a couple of things bother the pathologist and DS Smith (ex-DCI Smith who to confuse things more, is called by his first initials DC.) There was a bruise on the boy's head that suspiciously seemed to match the engraving on paddles rented by a canoe rental agency that had had a canoe stolen.

Grainger has written a really good police procedural with just the right amount of sardonic humor reminiscent of RD Wingfield's Frost series. I am adding Grainger to my list.