Death of a Friend

Second in the Den Cooper series of crime novels, this differs from the author's other series in being more of a police procedural, which for me added interest. The cast list at the start is however very necessary as the focus does shift away from Den's difficulties as a rookie detective very frequen......more

This is my first Rebecca Tope book and it was a satisfying read. Solid writing where suspects seemed to be popping up everywhere. The ending took me by surprise...yikes!......more

Murderer could be seen a mile off, but the story was still skillfully done.......more

This was a book sent to me as part of a 3-month subscription at Christmas. I'm not familiar with this author but I found the characters well-drawn and the storyline a bit different. My main criticism is the number of characters in the book. It was quite difficult for me to keep track of who was rela......more