Betty Church in 1939 has been sent to Sackwater in Suffolk with a promotion to Inspector. Where she meets her motley crew of police officers but this is also the place where she grew up. It doesn't take long before she discovers her first body.
Unfortunately I just didn't get the humour of the book, I expect it would be enjoyed by most people but humour is subjectivec and I just found it tedious and trying.
So overall this new series is not for me.
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I abandoned this after tw0 hours (15%) because the humor didn't work for me.

This is the second M. R. C. Kasasian book and I'm pretty much done.This is everything I dislike in "comedy" shows and nothing I enjoy. If you're a fan of unpleasant people being obnoxious and showing up other people who are more obnoxious then this is for you. Betty herself is not a bad character and some of the people she holds close are interesting, however the twins and Dodo are unpleasant at best and I held a hope that they were either (minor spoiler)
the Murderers or going to be murdered, but alas, no

This is set just as World War II is breaking out and I'm also not sure how long the events were going on for and by the end I really didn't care.

I'm not going to yuck on someone elses yum but this isn't my thing, not my yum and I'm going to leave this author for others. ( )

Inspector Betty Church is one of the first female police officers, who returns to work in her small hometown after losing an arm while working in London. Now she's investigating a series of murders, while dealing with a crazy cast of characters--sexist coworkers, unappreciative parents, and an ex-boyfriend's family who seems more like family than her own.
The book is delightful and quirky (in a Jasper Fforde kind of way--which is to say, good). ( )

This is the first title I've read by this author and is the first novel in a spin off series from their Gower Street Detective Series.

Betty Church is invalided out to the sleepy village of Sackwater where she grew up following an incident in which she lost her hand whilst on a case with the Metropolitan police.

The village is populated with a collection of eccentric and comical characters which includes the various members of the Suffolk constabulary.

The book reminds me of the style used in the Lestrade novels by M.J.Trow which I read many years ago and compares very favourably.

If you like quirky characters and puns then this is the ideal book to keep you entertained. The whodunit keeps you guessing right to the very end and it is written in a flowing style that allows you to lose yourself in the story

All in all this was a very entertaining humorous murder mystery ( )