Review: Entertaining Enough to Make Putting Up with Formatting Issues Tolerable
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2014
I did not include in my rating of this book the formatting problem I noticed on both my Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 and my Smartphone.  The first line of paragraphs lack indentation, which is irritating but not intolerable.In post WWII Yorkshire an elderly woman with a reputation for being cantankerous is discovered dead in her home by a boy named Billy who climbed her back garden wall to retrieve an errant ball.  When it appears the police are not taking the case serious enough to suit Billy he and his two close friends start their on investigation.While the main characters are children I did not think of this book as a children's book. The author does an excellent job of slipping sly bits of adult humor into the story.  The murders and the motive are serious and not played for laughs. His characters are well drawn.  I liked Billy and I'm going to read the next book in the series.ETA:  The next book was already available when I wrote this, but had not been connected to the Author's Page.  Haven't read it yet, but it's on my TBR list.