Murder in my Backyard
An earlier work, pre-dating the big “Vera” and “Shetland” successes. Crime drama set in a small village with a limitec canvas and not a huge cast of characters. I listened to this as an audiobook and it was OK. The narrative style is already quite well developed and there is some human interest in the story arc of the lead character but nowhere near the league of Jimmy Perez especially. A pedestrian work that I probably would not have read if had not had Ann’s name on the cover but as noted elsewhere, the early work was the necessary grounding for the later big hitters!