Rafael DeSoto (1904–1992)

enjoyed it on the second read too.
I love the series. Hits all the right notes for a cozy mystery, but also has enough meat and tension to satisfy my hard mystery/police procedural preferences.
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Ho hum. Here's a novel featuring Samson, a suspended police officer back in his Yorkshire Dales home town for the duration of investigations to clear his name, and Delilah (yes, I know....) who runs a struggling dating agency. Death follows death. Suicide? Murder? Accident? Or does something unsavoury link these deaths? Of course it does, and Samson and Delilah are here to work it out.

There are so many characters I don't think I ever sorted half of them out. It took me ages to get into the show more plot though finally I did want to see how it all worked out. Though not that much.

It's an OK read, suitable for a long train journey. I shan't bother to read any more books by Julia Chapman (or her alter ego Julia Stagg, who writes books set in the French Pyrenees) though. Which is a shame, as I'm a fan of both the Dales and the French Pyrenees, both of which I have called home. show less