I found this slow going for the first half and then it speeded up in the second half; but that seems to be how I find a lot of books lately so it might just be me. I’m in no hurry to finish this series, I started in the 1990s and I now know it’s only going to get to Y so I’m going to take my time.

This one concerns one of Kinsey’s elderly neighbours (not Henry!), who has a fall and ends up the victim of an elderly care scammer. I enjoyed the change of page from a regular murder mystery, though that might have been part of the reason I found the beginning of the book slow. In the end I really enjoyed it so I just wish it hadn’t taken me so long to engage with the story.

Also Kinsey gets bonus points for mocking Henry for being so organised as to have his Christmas tree up and decorated two weeks before Christmas. How times have changed since 1987. Though given the book was written twenty years after the time it’s set in I guess Grafton had the benefit of hindsight when writing that.