The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe

This mystery novel, more accurately perhaps a police procedural novel with a strong sense of setting is filled with fascinating parts, but unfortunately the sum of these together doesn’t add up to much, none of them are explored to their potential. Set in the former colony, and now département of Fra......more

Perhaps because I did not read the first book of the series, I found this book to be unnecessarily complex which took away from, rather than contributing to my enjoyment of it. Even at the end of the book I had no feeling for or understanding of the characters and their motivations and therefor I ca......more