As a series book I knew what one of the births and one of the marriages would be in this book, and I wondered if there would be much more to it than that. Being a detective series you can pretty much guarantee a death or two. I’m pleased to say it turned out to be more than just a couple of rites of passage for the central characters.

Decent puzzles added up to a good plot. I’d guessed the murderer quite early on - process of elimination seemed to exclude everyone else - but it didn’t make for disappointment (as it shouldn’t in a good book) because there was enough else to figure out and the ‘how’ wasn’t at all clear to me.

This has been a consistently good series; I think I’m within a book of catching up with the author now.