This review was originally posted on Star Crossed Reviews Thanks to Bookouture for letting me take part in this tour and for my copy of this book via Netgalley.
This is the second book in the Detective Kay Sharp series but it could be read as a standalone. I enjoyed the first book especially the relationship between Kay and Elliot. It was funny, tense and had that teasing nature. This continued in this book but there was a lot less of these two in scenes together which made me sad. These two have a great dynamic and work well together.
Kay Sharp was as determined and forceful as ever in this book. There were multiple storylines going on in the book, you really had to take stock of what you knew and where everything was going. I think it was purposely designed this way to make you stop and work out what was going on.
I loved the chapter headings and the different POV in the book. The book was very easy to read and I easily read half of this book in one go.
One thing I will say is there were very little in the way of surprises for me. I guessed much of the story very early on. I was however gripped because I needed to know if I was right. I wanted that smug satisfaction of working it all out. Leslie did throw a few spanners in there that I didn't catch and thinking back I should have. I liked that even though I thought I knew what was going on I could still be a little bit surprised.
I hope there will be more to come from Kay and the rest of the Mount Chester group as I'm not quite ready to say goodbye to these characters yet!
Reviewed by Emma (SCR) on
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 27 April, 2021: Finished reading
- 19 May, 2021: Reviewed