Review: Decent Not Polished Police Procedural and Cozy
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2013
Police Inspector and Religious Minister, rather a unique character in the British Town Mystery sub-genre. Not in the same class as the many first rate authors, but a good start for a series. There  is nothing fundamentally wrong with the plotting or writing but it is rather a tightrope performance to keep the two roles, law enforcement and religious, truly separate. The author finesses the point by giving a central place to theft of church property. At times the author strays too far into cozy-land by constructing situations not easily accepted as within the compass of a police officer. The concluding scenes were, to me,  of that nature. At any rate, I think many cozy readers and a lesser percentage of British Police  Procedural readers will find this an easily read and generally enjoyable book.