The Cuckoo's Calling

I might file this one under guilty pleasure. I thoroughly enjoyed the mystery and the way it unfolds. The narrator read brilliantly bringing the protagonist to life, especially. The book might be twenty pages shorter if all the f-bombs were removed. And another 30 shorter if half the smoking was removed. I get that people smoke and talk like that in reality, but it's like having one's tomatoes salted for the first time. It stands out because I'm not used to it being there.

The lives of the rich and famous don't interest me much, and if anything, this book reenforces that stance. For me, this is all about the mystery and the work of solving it. I like this one well enough that I would read the next in the series.