Dying Fall
A chance of scene from Norfolk as both Ruth and Nelson head to Blackpool for different (reasonably plausible!) reasons. There’s a new build university called Pendle that feels incredibly flimsy and just a plot device (we only ever come across 4 or people there in total and most of the time the entire, single, building is largely empty). So I don’t totally buy the premise but once it gets going there’s enough to keep me hooked, although the strain between Ruth and Nelson is limiting both their own interactions and the coherence of the story - I can’t see our author being able to take this much further while still keeping things credible, but there’s another 10(!) books to go. I can’t imagine how that is going to work out…
There was, I admit, a terrific piece of mis-direction that had me really annoyed (how could they do that to my absolutely favourite character!) until the reveal and it was all cleared up. Clever, and it did prove to me how much I cared!