Ragged Alice

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DCI Holly Craig has returned to her unpronounceable Welsh home town of Pontyrhudd after some unexplored disaster in London. After graduating high school or second form, whatever it's called in Pontyrhudd, Craig shook the dust of Pontyrhudd from her feet and left for London and a career in law enforcement where she did very well because she is blessed or cursed with the ability to read souls. This essential gift has vaulted her to DCI rank at 32 but also left her with a penchant for alcoholism and coffee.

The first day she is in Pontyrhudd, Craig is assigned to a death by vehicular accident, which she intuits is a murder. Then suspects begin to die in a pattern that seems to implicate her long-dead mother who has become a bit of local folklore known as “Ragged Alice.”

I enjoyed this story. I thought it moved along at a nice clip. The plotline was a bit busy and tangled up. There didn't seem to be much in the way of character development. If this is the first instalment of a longer DCI Craig, paranormal cop series, then that would make sense. I enjoyed the character enough that I would stick around for the next installment.