Date with Evil: A delightfully witty and charming mystery set in the Yorkshire Dales: 8 (The Dales Detective Series, 8)

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Roger Murgatroyd (Troy) is the surly landlord of The Fleece pub in the centre of the village, with Kay his wife.

She lives in the nearest house to Samson's farm - Twistletown - with her mentally slow son George who is a dab hand at mechanical repairs. I would liken this book and indeed the series to a boiled sweet with a soft centre but a hard shell. Je rêvais d’un happy-end, style « conte de fées » avec un chouette prologue type 6 mois après les faits.

We left the town at the end of the last instalment with Samson’s name cleared and (nearly) everyone safe after the entire town was involved in a showdown with corrupt coppers, eastern European mafia and money launderers.

She makes her characters easy to visualise, as well as each one being individual in their own right. He joined the police, was promoted, and then worked undercover in the series crime unit (SOCO) and for the national crime agency NCA. Et j'ai beaucoup aimé l'intrigue avec les jeunes roumains, une nouvelle occasion de mettre en avant toutes les qualités d'Ida, mon personnage préféré de tous, et d'élargir un peu l'horizon de cette petite ville du Yorkshire. DCI Frank Thistlethwaite is from a neighbouring police force, but he is convinced that Samson is corrupt, and determined to nail him. Ryan Metcalfe was Samson's best friend - Samson was best man at Ryan's wedding to Lucy, and godfather to young Nathan, but Ryan had joined the army and was killed in Afghanistan about two years ago.We now have what seems an obvious crime fiction misdirection with the introduction of three gypsies - Manfri, Leon, and beautiful and single Kezia - on the scene and camping near Pete Ferris's caravan.

La fin est explosive, en quelques pages, Delilah et Samson résolvent plusieurs mystères qui les poursuivent depuis le premier roman. Delilah also runs the Dales Dating Agency and has an apparently hopeless case - old, set in his ways, dirty and smelly farmer Clive Knowes wants her to find him a wife. Why was Rick Procter meeting Mr Taylor and two foreigners in the lonely moors farmhouse in whose outhouse Nathan had sheltered ? Personally, I thought the pacing could have been a bit quicker - I found myself getting frustrated by knowing more than our heroes at some parts. Much, much later in the story, Tolpuddle will turn up at the gypsy camp looking for help when Samson and Delilah are trapped in a freezer six hours away from death, and we will learn if the gypsies are thieves or heroes.Stuart goes to local solicitor Matty Thistlethwaite for advice on shell companies, and later steals the Kingston Properties files - in cleaner Ida Capstick's bucket.

James Ellison is the local vet, Bernard Taylor the local estate agent, and the local police are Sgnt Clayton and PC Danny Bradley.It's a terrific setting, and the book is full of all sorts of interesting characters most of whom we have got to know - the Metcalfe clan, lots of pensioners at Fellside Court where Samson's dad Joseph now stays, young DC Danny Bradley who helps Samson and Delilah, and the nasty (but only Samson can see it) property developer Rick Procter. They had worked with the same ancient tractors that Georges was restoring, and so were instant friends. Two other questions : Rick's property will be auctioned off under the proceeds of crime legislation. She had spent hours cleaning it, and she rushes to investigate, and sees someone running away, but is very seriously injured when a gas cylinder explodes.