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The Railway Murders (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #8) 2 eksemplarer
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Received this from NetGalley.
A retired judge is shot outside a local pub in northern England. The shooter was seen by a witness. When DCI Jim Oldroyd and his team arrive on the scene, they learn the identity of the shooter only to discover the shooter has disappeared. When continuing their investigation, they find that the judge did have some enemies but did they dislike him enough to kill him and where did the killer go?
A retired judge is shot outside a local pub in northern England. The shooter was seen by a witness. When DCI Jim Oldroyd and his team arrive on the scene, they learn the identity of the shooter only to discover the shooter has disappeared. When continuing their investigation, they find that the judge did have some enemies but did they dislike him enough to kill him and where did the killer go?
I bought this first in a series as a Kindle deal and wanted to read it this month, as the next few in the series are also on sale this month. I figured if I liked it enough to continue, I'd snap the others up. That won't be happening.
This mystery suffered from too many characters, flat writing, and too much information kept from the reader and then miraculously disclosed at the end. It's a lazy approach for a writer, but I might have forgiven it if the characters hadn't been two dimensional and boring.
2.5 stars… (mere)
This mystery suffered from too many characters, flat writing, and too much information kept from the reader and then miraculously disclosed at the end. It's a lazy approach for a writer, but I might have forgiven it if the characters hadn't been two dimensional and boring.
2.5 stars… (mere)
Yorkshire, law-enforcement, procedural, family-dynamics, family-history, family-drama, sequential-murders, friendship, friends, investigations, secrets, lies, extortion, small-business, small-town, hate-crimes, witty, sly-humor, entitled-attitude, addictive-behaviors, misogyny, mysteries*****
Fantastic fast-paced read with realistic characters and life situations. Easy to stand alone but I really like this bunch of coppers, especially DCI Oldroyd! In addition to being a wonderful mystery/procedural read, this history geek really loved learning about the basic terminology of beer making and lots about the brewery history in Yorkshire.
I requested and received a free ebook copy from Amazon Publishing UK, Thomas & Mercer via NetGalley. Thank you!… (mere)
Fantastic fast-paced read with realistic characters and life situations. Easy to stand alone but I really like this bunch of coppers, especially DCI Oldroyd! In addition to being a wonderful mystery/procedural read, this history geek really loved learning about the basic terminology of beer making and lots about the brewery history in Yorkshire.
I requested and received a free ebook copy from Amazon Publishing UK, Thomas & Mercer via NetGalley. Thank you!… (mere)
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Guilty of a biased review because I love this series. I really like this bunch of coppers, especially DCI Oldroyd!
Two of Oldryod's former colleagues are on holiday when they find themselves part of a murder investigation by a shortstaffed local bunch. They not only agree to cooperate but get Oldroyd out of yard work by asking him to act as consultant. Good job! The case is a poser in which a contentious woman is found dead on the river in her narrowboat with no footprints indicating another person. Wild! And so the investigation begins and it's all amazingly twisty. Fun read.
Lots about the mill/manufacturing history in the area along the river in Yorkshire, super! Running throughout the action are lyrics of a folk tune associated with the deceased woman and others.
I requested and received a free temporary EARC copy from Amazon Publishing UK, Thomas & Mercer via NetGalley. Thank you! Now I just have to get the audio to get the Yorkshire accents right inside my head.… (mere)