I have thus far enjoyed Martin Walkers jaunts through the Dordogne with a flic (the Bruno, Chief of Police series), and I appreciate that even a dozen books in the scene needs be set for new readers, but it really shouldn’t take the first quarter of the book! So, I’ve given, probably permanently, and move£ on to Tim Weavers latest David Raker, The Black Bird.
Prior to the Walker, I read a new-to-me author, Trevor Wood, and his first Jimmy Mullen outing The Man on the Street, a pleasant and undemanding amble through Newcastle with our homeless ex-serviceman-with-PTSD-as-detective protagonist. ‘Twas ok.