Pretty good book. Wells is from England so some of the words and phrases she uses are different from ours so it takes a little time to get used to the meaning of some of her sentences, but overall I liked the character and thought the story was fairly good and will try more of hers.

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A solid beginning to a series of traditional English detective novels. The protagonist in this one is a former police officer recently released from incarceration for assaulting a suspect. He's trying to rebuild his life by getting his PI license. But things are still unsettled at home, a fact complicated by him taking a case out of town. Setting the book in Lancashire adds some interest to the story, as it's not the usual scene for Brit mysteries. Author Wells is good at portraying believable small-town characters and she creates a likeable detective in Scott. Scott is hired to find a missing person so long gone he has to dig this cold case out of the deep freeze. And it has him delving into the pasts of a lot of people who would prefer to forget their younger lives.

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