THE LION'S DEN by Emmy Ellis

 4* Book 2 in the series doesn't have quite the same excitement of book 1, but it's still a decent read.

Still waters in small villages run deep. People aren't who they seem, keeping secrets for themselves and others, looking out for their own backs, scheming and dropping others in it when it suits, and lying when it suits.

Whodathunk that oldies could get up to so much? And that one could be so deceptive and so controlled, or that another could be so evil and yet think it's his right and duty as a man and husband to lay down the law? But, did I have sympathy for the victim? Nope. She brought it on herself - the prologue hints at the horrors, but let's you know that she also enjoys what's meted out...

The prologue us horrible. Turned my stomach because of what very quickly became clear was happening. How could a woman...?! Abuse or not, there was collusion on her part, and whilst a kind of justice may have been done where she was concerned, her husband escaped the legal justice he deserved, though not a different kind of justice.

The detecting was less fraught and somewhat easier in this book, amd it didn't have the addictive quality of book 1. But, we get to see Anna and Parole start something, we get to see one mole starting to become transparent, and we still wonder about the second.

It's a decent enough read, but the subject matter didn't make me love it. 

ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Joffe Books for my reading pleasure.

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