Mixed Pickles - the Book log 2012

It'll turn out all Wight in the end

The difficulty with coming across a "serial" character so late in the day is that it is difficult to feel particular empathy with their problem (and all serial detectives seem to have a "problem" these days).  In the case of DI Andy Horton, it is the fate of his disappeared mother, something which takes up an awful lot of his internal processes during the course of this book without making any significant progress towards a solution - very frustrating for the new reader.

While this is all going on, a somewhat overcomplicated case involving a transvestite corpse found bobbing in the sea off the Isle of Wight is being solved and an important lesson is learned - that I don't really enjoy police procedurals as much when they are not written by Ed McBain.

Unputdownability :  Every time I did, I had to backtrack when I picked it up again, just to clarify who was who.