Rope Enough by Oliver Tidy.

The subtitle for Rope Enough is (The Romney and Marsh Files #1). Oh, I thought, that rings a bell, Romney Marsh, I have heard of that before, isn’t it a nature reserve in Kent? Yes indeed, “Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England. It covers about 100 square miles (260 km2).” according to Wikipedia. So Oliver Tidy does have a dry sense of humour for his police procedural crime thriller set in Dover along the Kent coast in England.

The central character of this novel is Detective Inspector Romney and he is an old school policeman. To balance this out is the new copper on the block, Detective Sergeant Joy Marsh and she is the modern face of British policing.

I enjoyed reading Rope Enough as it ticks all the boxes for a regular police procedure crime thriller. Character development was good, the plot was good and I liked the way this story was told. I think it would make a good television drama. Oliver shows great talent with the format of his book which made for a very comfortable read. I thought the pace was right and I was impressed that the crimes featured were very unusual. I thought it was brilliant how the motive for the crimes was fully explored and explained.

All the odds and ends were tidied up at the end which left me with a good impression of Case Closed. Rope Enough covers a lot of ground but Romney and Marsh get to the bottom of these crimes by using their very good detective skills. This was not a case of some police specialist finding the key to these crimes but good old fashioned thinking of “what if?”.

I found Rope Enough a very entertaining read and it gave me all I want from a novel. Rope Enough gets the top score of 5 stars from me and whenever I glance at a table, a smile spring’s to my face.

Rope Enough was written 2012 and is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook.