A terrible surprise rocks a funeral when the wrong body is discovered in a freshly dug grave. Now Detective Inspector Brock and Detective Sergeant Poole must open up an old case and dig through the small village’s secrets to solve a murder!

I gotta admit here that I had some hopes for this book, because I tend to love mystery / thriller book but this one is all over the place. 

This book struggles a lot of maintaining point of view or character-building aspect which really annoyed me because it really made it hard for me personally to maintain my interested in this book and keep reading it which I had struggled to finish it.

The big murder reveal aspect of this book was none existent because from the moment when the killer was introduces in this book (which was pretty early on during the investigation) I immediately knew who the killer was because this book made it obvious who the killer was. Which really had taken out the enjoyment, suspense and mystery out of this book for me personally.

The plot in this book is very very slow, almost to the point where the main storyline of this book which is the investigation of who killed the person becomes a side quest for the main character instead of it being the main plot line of this book. Which really made me very bored and uninterested in the plot of this book. Because I read this book solely for the mystery aspect of it and not to learn everything about why the main character moved to the town of this book, his relationship with his father, him making friends and enemies at his new work and him unboxing his stuff in his new apartment. 

At times the plot of this book felt more like it was a character study on the main character instead of being a mystery book about an murder where the main character is a police detective. 

This book has also its fair share of bad grammar, and you know it is bad when a person like me who’s third language is English and makes my faire share of bad grammar notices the bad grammar in a English book. Im not gonna go hard on the bad grammar in this book since I also make my fair share of bad grammar mistakes so I’m only pointing out this aspect of this book. This book has also its fair share of of incorrect forms of the use of verbs, which really made me question my English skills but I was a little bit more assured about my English skills when I saw other people commenting on the bad grammar and incorrect use of verbs in this book.

The reason why I have given this book 2 stars instead of 1 star, is because the plot in this book had a lot of potential and had a good premise. This book could have been very good if the author have kept the focus on the investigation instead of getting sidetracked during this book and if the action in this book would have been faster. 

The characters are okay for the most part. The characters in this book was easily the best part of this book, because I found the characters in this book to be pretty likable and well written. All of the characters in this book had some kind of personalities to them or at the very least something which made them standout from the rest of the characters in this book. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5