Roz Watkins

A random 99p selection on Kindle. I usually avoid 'twisty thrillers' because the story more often than not hinges on a gimmick rather than focusing on the characters, and this is a prime example - I think the author used a random plot generator and then threw about six different ideas together (murder house! - child witness! - killer in a coma! - video games! - face blindness! - snakes!) For all the craziness, though, I did keep reading (even after guessing the real killer) and liked the setting of the Red House. There was possibly a little too much going on at once, including first person narrators, but it does what it says on the tin.… (mere)

This book set in Derbyshire started well.
DI Meg Dalton and her team investigate the strange murder of a man found poisoned in a cave.
They have a few significant leads.
There is also possible religion and right to die issues involved as well as the usual murdered for Money.
Dalton has her own family issues with her mum looking after the old Granny.
Another death occurs sister of the original man.
Lots of back and forth running about, a teenage girl called Rosie thinks she may have Huntingtons disease as there is a family link she is going to kill herself in another cave. Dalton and her sidekick Jai arrive and rescue her.
They then manage to solve the murder and rescue another woman.
Silly book. Not for me.… (mere)

This started out well: Meg is making a place for herself as a DI in a new force and forges a good working relationship with Jai, one of her sergeants. The method by which the first victim got lured to his death was extremely convoluted and made frequent references to Greek mythology, but I was going along with it. After that however, it became one of those novels where the heroine's tragic backstory turns out to be directly relevant to the investigation, and where she is forever having accidents/being attacked/dislocating limbs rescuing people, but merely takes couple of aspirins and bounces back. Finally it descended into something of an 'issue' novel.… (mere)