Yvonne

This book is well written but I could not read past the first few chapters. I found it totally depressing. I am surprised that nobody else seems to have felt the same. Perhaps it was just the wrong time in my life to read it.

Beautifully written story about people I don't relate to, doing very little.

Apart from the U-turn in the middle which took me by surprise and revived my flagging interest for a short while, I found this cliched and predictable.

I really enjoyed the first half but I wish I had never read the last three chapters.

I enjoy Peter Lovesey's writing, the characters are good, the plot OK, but it is slower than most of his books and at about 2/3 of the way through I skipped a couple of chapters to find out who the culprit was because it seemed that Superintendent Diamond was never going to get there.