Review: Good beginning, but it gets strange from there on
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2014
One of those nice semi-cozy mysteries featuring a young woman newly on the job as a homicide detective in the West Country of England, and her first case there  is a murder/kidnapping.I found this somewhat of an odd story.  A new mom wakes up to find that her nanny is not there at her bedside with the baby for his morning bottle.  So she goes to look for the nanny in the baby's room waaaaay down the hall of their very large house.  The door seems stuck, she pushes, and to her horror, finds the nanny dead on the floor blocking the door, and the baby gone.Good beginning, but it gets strange from there on.  On the part of the police there is almost no emphasis on the murder, and seems to be no great panic and rush in finding the baby, for which there is no ransom note or phone call.The people in the household, the young mother, the overly busy husband, the PA to the husband, seem unperturbed by the death of the young nanny IN THEIR HOME!!!, and only the mother seems frantic about the baby.  The husband goes on working (he is a property developer), instead of staying home biting his fingernails like one would expect a father in this situation to do.  Just a bit over the top.