Good People

A hard-boiled police procedural set in rural Wales with a lot of twists and turns and a quite unexpected and a bit unsatisfactory end. The story starts slow, but then gains momentum and builds up sufficient suspense to keep the reader hooked. The whole gist starts with a possibly missing girl, a defin......more

The beginning of this book is intriguing - six drunk rugby fans and a female hitch hiker they pick up hijack their minibus and disappear but only five of the seven reappear. Enter DS Glyn Capaldi with the bit between his teeth. What follows is a roller coaster ride through sexual deviance and suspec......more

'Finalist for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger: The half-Welsh/half-Italian cop Glyn Capaldi has fallen from grace and is exiled from Cardiff to the Welsh countryside. It's a place where nothing of any significance is meant to happen, a place where supposedly he can do little harm. But trouble......more

This is not great, but what really merits its low rating is the clichéd treatment of the gay character. Set in rural Wales, it makes sense that the character might be concerned about coming out. And also that he might be suicidal. But, despite this, I really don't need a straight novelist depicting......more

I'm somewhat conflicted about reading further into this series. I'm still not sure whether I like the main character or not. However, the mystery itself was intriguing; it wandered down rabbit holes, but eventually it all came together in an unexpected way. For fans of UK police procedurals, I think......more