Josh Lanyon's THE LEMON DROP KID

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JL is a class act - this had beautiful turns of phrase, decent whodunit/s and the right ending.

I'm not a fan of abbreviated endings, but sometimes you need them for a touch of realism, like here. I mean, about 2 pages before the ending, I'd already gotten what for me as a lover of all things furred and four-legged, was the icing on my (reading) cake, so no complaints.

This wasn't a complicated tale nor one that needs to be read in series like most JL tales and it was quick and easy to get into, without a huge infodump about the leads' pasts. There were enough characters, enough bits that weren't as cut and dried as they seemed, to make this a decent, enjoyable but not taxing tale. Is it one of JL's best? If you like deep and complicated, huge misunderstandings and angst, maybe not, but as a standalone, and a lighter-feeling one, despite the death and prison and break-up/s, this was an entertaining read. Let's hope this is JL back on track for more releases in her Secrets and Scrabble and her Bedknobs and Broomsticks series this year - cos I'm greedy and those are some of her most entertaining tales.

Arc courtesy of NetGalley and JustJoshin Publishing Inc for my reading pleasure.

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