Lady's Well: A DCI Ryan Mystery (The DCI Ryan Mysteries Book 20)

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This may be book twenty in the series but I am hoping there will be plenty more yet to come as they are highly entertaining reads with plenty of murder and mayhem with one of the best set of characters who by now feel like family. There were several long and very didactic paragraphs about (supposedly) the characters opinions on these topics. With the water at Lady’s Well having turned red and the residents being affected after drinking some of the water, Ryan realises pretty quickly that all is not right. And it is then moved to the future, when the first murder happens early in the book and the second soon after.

This service is entirely free, and your details will never be shared with any third parties whatsoever.She enjoys reading all manner of books, painting, travelling and spending time with family and friends. Everything is complicated by demonstrations about fracting in the area, as well as lack of authopsy for a long while in the book. Also the paganism at the heart of Holystone seemed intriguing, and I would have liked to have learned more about this. Now about Lady’s Well - DCI Ryan and his partner and best friend, DS Frank Philips who at the moment looks like Uncle Fester (It is Hallowe’en after all.

This is probably a matter of personal taste, but I disliked the constant references to Trump, Liz Truss, TikTok, influencers, etc. I know the author had a number of issues to deal with while writing this book – illness among them – so I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume those loose ends are deliberate and will be wrapped up in the next book or two to be released. The environmentalism and fracking debates were interesting, but I would have liked these to have been more of a focus than the repeated worshipful paragraphs about Ryan.The Cove" (the first book in her new Summer Suspense Mysteries series) was released in 2021 and followed up by "The Creek" in 2022.