Scene of Crime

stelle Bignall is found dead in her home, apparently the victim of a burglary gone wrong. She is tied up and gagged, and she has suffocated. WAs it an accident? Did the gag cause her to suffocate?

When Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd begins to examine the body and the case, he soon discovers more than one possible suspect, more than one possible scenario. Along with his paramour, the hugely pregnant Inspector Judy Hill, he takes apart each of the possibilities and looks for inconsistencies in the stories of witnesses.

There are several. Figuring out which person is telling the truth, which persons are simply mistaken, which are lying, is a big job. It is not helped by the victim's husband being part of a theater group (she had been, too, show more but did not attend this night's rehearsal), and the theater group members each have something to add.

Yet they somehow piece it together.

It was a well-plotted procedural, with some interesting characters. I didn't become attached to any of them but the book kept me reading. show less

Less complicated than the plot of the last book in this series but very fiendish; one of those everyone could've done it but no one seems to've done it kind of things. Nice.

It was good though not too original.

Engaging - lots of characters