DEATH IN WILTSHIRE by Derek Thompson
2* This poor author feels like a 'we've got to publish him, but don't really want to stand by him' author from Joffe Books. I used to get ARCs by Joffe Books but I suspect they don't like critique, as they've been rejecting all my recent requests. I've been harsh at times but also pretty fulsome where praise/feedback was warranted. This book was a free-to-read-now tale, and I can see why. There's really nothing to recommend here. There's alluded-to stuff with a DI who holds the lead character's - so unmemorable that I've forgotten his name - puppet strings, the reasons for which don't get revealed beyond brief allusions about events that made him have to leave The Met. Just silencing looks. I got tired reading about his unexplained exile from The Met and his not liking Wiltshire. The thing with the lady vicar was pointless. The thinking by his young sidekick about whether single vicars are allowed to have sex was archaic. The plethora ...