Review: A great discovery!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2014
Free or very low-cost books on Kindle are a gamble.  Popular authors are very expensive, regular authors are $9.99.  So the $1.99 or $2.99 authors are sometimes not worth the time it takes to read the book.But Catriona's King's Craig series is not only a Kindle bargain, it is a fantastic read.  If you love police procedurals you will very much enjoy this series.  Lots of British, Scottish and Irish detectives out there, but this is the first one from Northern Ireland that I've found.  The NI setting is interesting with just enough historical and local details to have me thinking it's a place I need to visit.Marc Craig is terrific protagonist, and his crew and family and love life are sprinkled with lively and richly drawn characters.  I like that the secretary and the young IT guy are an integral part of the murder squad.  Craig really works with his team which is both refreshing and realistic.  The loner detective whose rogue break-the-rules style solves the crime to the astonishment of all has gotten old.  This series gives a sense of how much work and how much time and how many details have to be examined to solve cases.Now that I've read all five in the course of a week (laundry is piled up pretty high!) I'll be looking for Catriona King's next book, and gladly pay more for it.This was a Kindle gamble that really paid off!