The local police are Sgnt Clayton, PC Danny Bradley, DCI Frank Thistlethwaite, from a neighbouring force, and DC Jess Green, the liaison officer from the Met whom Samson doesn't trust.

I owed recommend starting this series with book 1, as each book builds up to the tremendous climax in this one.S’il est plaisant de retrouver tous les personnages, même l’intrigue a un goût de déjà-vu avec le précédent roman malgré les ajouts. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. From stolen washing to inheritance investigations, Bruncliffe’s Dales Detective Agency is being inundated with cases. De toutes façons, de manière générale, c'est vraiment un reproche que l'on peut faire à cette série. She resides in the Yorkshire Dales a beautiful place in England that gives her plenty of inspiration for her books in her mystery series– which happen to have stories that take place in exactly the same place!

Samson makes it up with his now sober father, and could opt for a good life in Brunscliffe, but he reminds himself he is only lying low for six months. This is book 4 in a very enjoyable series set in Bruncliffe, a little village in the Yorkshire Dales. An ex makeup artist at Fellside Hall disguises Delilah as new temp Denise so successfully that she fools Samson and brother Will (but not brother Ash). Arty catches Samson hiding in a ginnel watching Taylors, works out what is afoot, and soon the Fellside Hall pensioners are in on the act too.

Julia's writing is so descriptive I can visualise myself there in that brutal landscape and hear the accent of the people speaking in this book. in fact they were all leading up to this book which makes me hope that this is not the last that we hear from the Dales detective agency. She’s naturally inclined to wander, but you can find part of her solidly in one place if you ever pick up one of her books! Just as animals can be imprinted by humans if they spend too long with them, so I became imprinted with this amazing part of the world.