taxonick reviewed Crime on the Fens by Joy Ellis
Review of 'Crime on the Fens' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
2.5 (audiobook)
I didn't know whether to.mark this as 2 or 3*, and decided to be generous in case it was at partly the reader that was making the dialogue stodgy and unrealistically formal.
The story is well structured, although rather implausible and riddled with coincidences, although it was certainly a good enough yarn to keep me interested.
The detail on police procedure was plausibly realistic, although often a bit too didacticly laid out. Too much reliance on genre clichés - the hardboiled DI with coupled with a heart-of-gold DS to keep her from getting into trouble, the outsider who pulls off a miracle to get accepted, the old-fashioned decent crook who helps out.