Looking Good Dead

Reading this was for me much like watching an episode of 70s UK TV like The Sweeny or The Professionals - slightly iffy but enjoyable enough mid- to low-brow entertainment to pass an evening, but nothing more than that. The quality of the prose was quite poor in many places, so I dropped a star from what would otherwise have been a down the middle three star average read.

I don't mind a suspension of reality for many different types of novel, but for a crime novel the central premise has to be self consistent. Not for this novel; but it careens along on a reasonably entertaining track.

Another slow paced yet compulsive thriller in the Roy Grace series. Grace is starting to get past the loss of his wife and we learn more about the workings of the seious crime unit.