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A review by tobyyy
The Cipher Garden by Martin Edwards
3.0
A fairly solid, fairly slow-paced, very English murder mystery slash police procedural (lite). It reminded me a little of Ann Cleeve’s first book (Crow Trap) — very slow burn, not a heightened sense of suspense, but a fairly well-honed ability to write setting & characters in a manner that allows suspension of disbelief and immersion into the story.
This was my first book by Edwards but it most likely will not be my last (let’s be real — I do get distracted often by other “shinies” but I had no dislikes strong enough to put this author on my “banned” list!).
This was my first book by Edwards but it most likely will not be my last (let’s be real — I do get distracted often by other “shinies” but I had no dislikes strong enough to put this author on my “banned” list!).