Review: Good read, needs editing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
I was really into the story when I got hit with some really poor wording in Chapter 9.  People don't usually "sat here in Geoffrey's chair,"  they are usually sitting here in Geoffrey's chair.  And later he sat all night but the rest of the sentence called for him to be sitting all night instead.Then, in Chapter 11, I think the correct phrase you want is "heads or tails,"  I have never seen that phrase as "head or tail" and the singular version really doesn't make sense.  Also, in the U.S. we use the term "Speaking of which"  instead of "Talking of which".I have no idea what secateurs are, if you could post what they are for my knowledge, that would be appreciated.  I am taking a very wild guess from the beginning of this part that they might be pruning shears maybe?  And what does "waiting to bite the sack" mean?Yeah, I'll probably find more but I wanted to get answers to the last two items so I would be sure I understood what you meant.I really like the storyline so far and think the author has done an excellent job creating suspense and drama.  The characters are well thought out and work well together.  The descriptions of things are wonderful, I love that I can picture Moira so vividly.  I liked the twist at the end.The incorrect use of the word sat in place of sitting is consistent throughout the book.  There are quite a few grammatical errors in the rest of book, however it's almost as if someone edited some chapters and not others as some chapters were very easy to read and others were almost painful.  I guess the author is British or uses British English as many of the words felt like it, however, that doesn't excuse bad sentence structure.That being said, this is still a good read if you are willing to overlook things.  I point out the above merely to help the author as I think the author has written a wonderful mystery and I would be very interested in reading more of this authors material.