I enjoyed this book as it was character driven not especially blood thirsty and there were more reasons for the characters to be involved in crime compared with some cosies. ( )

I was disappointed in this work. The premise of the story is very intriguing but the author never seems to be able to settle on a plan. There is where to many descriptive lists of the area and the people the main character interacts with to the point you don't have any idea of who these people are or where they are. Just to much minutiae to hold the reader's interest. There was potential here but not enough to bring me back to the series. A disappointment. ( )

I finished this, the first in a series, but I don’t think I’m interested enough to read any more. There were a couple of neat twists at the end, but the mystery took a while to get going and the narrative is heavy-handed. (Way too many women are tediously attracted to Dr. Pryor. I don’t particularly care to know if any of them go for him.) ( )

I loved the characters and the writing in this book. It took me a while to really get into the story because Knight took quite a bit of time to establish the characters and the setting so it was a while for the mystery to really take hold. That's okay because this was a pretty low-key mystery.

Richard Pryor is a forensic pathologist, in 1955 in Wales. He has just set up his own business with partner Angela Bray. Many of the cases they get a pretty routine, blood tests (Angela), unattended death autopsies (Richard) and others like that. There are really two main mysteries going on here, one is trying to identify the body of a man killed several years ago using modern (!) forensic techniques and the other trying to determine if a young woman drowned by accident or if her cheating husband killed her.

This was a fun "first in a series" and I'll be looking for more from this author. ( )

Set in the 1950s Richard Pryor and his partner Angela Bray open a pathology lab taking on all the jobs they can, the novel in particular covers two cases - the death of a woman, and the mystery of a set of bones.

Unlike modern novels which use all the whizz-bang gadgets modern technology has to offer being set back in the day the characters here are reliant on more basic methods of deduction and analysis which make the story that much more interesting. ( )