Review: Farce with serious undertones...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2013
Sorry, I liked the second book much more than this one. With names like Vitriol and hemorrhoids mistaken for cancer and other stuff it is difficult to take the story as a serious one.The author (male of female? Hard to tell, Oliver Tidy is probably a pseudonym) has a great sense of rather dark humor. Also, he/she gets the real heroine, DS Marsh almost killed in the book.The author's portrait of the shrink is priceless. It's interesting to know that UK NHS, apparently, pays for 25 years of  'therapy' in full - not common here in the US.It is quite funny to read about an avant-garde (??) film director with a powerful police officer lurking behind him. The subject of his artistic endeavors cannot be taken seriously either, including a major battle as an introduction to somewhat unusual sexual practices common, according to the author,  in other part of the UK.Nevertheless, DI Romney his becoming rather obnoxious. And I am definite of that 'certain age' to remember (very vaguely) the maritime disaster off the Belgian coast sometimes in the eighties.This is probably the last of this series. Is Romney dead? Perhaps, as in the two previous books he suffers a serious bodily harm in the last pages of this tome. Cliffhanger or an end of the story?