Rookie detective Stone teams up with seasoned veteran Superintendent Trewley to solve the murder of a pesky management consultant in the small English village of Tesbury. Original.
Call me old fashioned, but when I read a murder mystery I expect one of the mandatory plot points early on to be that someone gets murdered. "Early" can be straight up, or a couple of chapters in. Not at freaking page 106 of a 219 page book. The real mystery is how someone thought that over 100 pages of detail about the inner workings of a factory, the staff infighting, construction woes, union management, car parking and internal mail was the right way to approach the murder which they've slipped into the end of chapter 13. Whodunnit? Who cares! Certainly not me anymore.