I'm in the minority here I know, but I can't understand the rapturous applause that other reviewers have given this novel. I found it to be lacking in depth, characterisation and any form of suspense. We have the interchangeable "DI Joe Plantagenet" standing in for the interchangable "DI Wesley Peterson" as our hero in this series, another poorly fleshed out character that I just cannot relate to.
In an attempt to be constructive here, Kate Ellis desperately needs to find a decent editor to shape and polish her work. The amount of repetitive phrases and redundant characters stack up and are really annoying.
Perhaps if she could focus on developing her characters and abandoning this constant need to have a story from the past as a sub plot device, she might turn out something interesting.
