This twelfth book in the Sukey Reynolds cozy mystery series provided me with an afternoon of entertainment. These stories are quick reads and the police procedural aspects add another dimension to the plots.
DC Sukey Reynolds of the Avon and Somerset CID and her team get a call to a posh block of flats known as Sycamore House where the body of a resident, Fenella Tremaine, has been found in one of the rubbish skips. The entire gang at CID gets involved in this very complicated investigation even though they find that their main suspect indeed owned the murder weapon in question. Interviews, visits, and more murders further muddle the case but the detectives stay on it, hunting down every lead and clue, until they find the killer.
I have really enjoyed all of the books in this series and am sad to know that the next one will apparently be the last installment. I like Sukey as a character and as a police detective. She's come a long way since her days as a scene of crime officer -- both professionally and personally. I like the shorter length and the writing style as well. I find that reading this type of novel gives me a nice break from my more typically grisly crime thrillers.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for this e-book ARC to read and review.
This is #12 of 13 books in the Sukey Reynolds series and I suggest they be read in order.
Genre - cozy mystery, police procedural, detectives
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