Northern Shores Cozy Mystery book #1
(Murder in the Dunes)
The story in a few words:
Germany North Sea
During a routine rescue dive, Inspector Enna Koopmann stumbles on a dead man drifting in the waves. It is evident the man did not die of natural causes. So, Enna and her extremely meticulous partner, Detective Chief Inspector Pavel Neuhof need to find a motive and the culprit…. launching an investigation.
My thoughts:
The author lays the groundwork for her trilogy while in the background the investigation moves along at a very snail pace. It dilly-dallies quite a bit so much so that at times my mind was someplace else and I had to reread some passages. Having said this, the book is a police procedural first then a people behavior study. I particularly love how the author depicts Pavel’s odd behavior and how Enna manages to deal with him. This is well done. This cozy mystery gives us some humour along the way and in general also well plotted. Enna is an original she wears shorts and very colourful socks, not the usual attire for a policewoman but hey she made me smile or maybe giggle a little bit.
Set in Germany the author tried too much to please the North American audience in doing so tripped by using Fahrenheit instead of Celsius and FBI instead of BND or some other agencies. I may be picky but although fiction I prefer reading something closer to reality for those little details.
Definitely this book was not one of my preferred I found it somewhat boring but again this is me. I said it before this is my opinion judge for yourself you may love it.
Thank you, Book Whisperer, and Netgalley
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