Lady's Well: A DCI Ryan Mystery (The DCI Ryan Mysteries Book 20)

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I know the author had a number of issues to deal with while writing this book – illness among them – so I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume those loose ends are deliberate and will be wrapped up in the next book or two to be released. The 20th in the sequence (I am a fan and have read them all) and if it was the premier league it’d be about 15th - safe from relegation but certainly no where near some if the excellent books in this series. When I settle down with these stories I feel like I’m just catching up with some old friends, they’re absolutely wonderful characters and having learnt so much about them along the journey of these mysteries, I feel like I actually know them.

LJ Ross is an internationally bestselling author, whose books have sold over 7 million copies worldwide. In this instalment we see the ongoing development of the relationships between Ryan and Anna, Frank and Denise and Mel and Jack. I absolutely love this series, and Northumbria, England is one area of England which I have not visited very often, but these characters are so real to me, I feel that they are my friends.

I laughed so much throughout with Frank’s one liners, he is 100% a character that I will forever love!

I can only assume all of those loose ends are part of the setup for the next book or two – at least I hope that is the case.

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I count down the days each and every time I know a new book in this series is coming out and this was not exception! Lot of focus is on Melanie Yates, who is struggling with the events of the previous books and there is lot of her internal dilema in this book, but it does not overpower the main story. With Denise threatening anyone and everyone in the building to not let Frank have any treats as he’s supposed to be on a diet, the wily ways of the two of them is something to behold.The question is whether the problems with the village's water supply caused his death and did Eco-protestor kill himself because he felt guilty for Fred's death? They seem to be used for such different purposes and, again, they broke my focus because they were so unnecessary and confusing.

The environmentalism and fracking debates were interesting, but I would have liked these to have been more of a focus than the repeated worshipful paragraphs about Ryan. Her eleventh novel, The Infirmary, is a prequel story to the DCI Ryan series and is available as a major Audible Originals audio-drama starring Tom Bateman, Kevin Whately, Bertie Carvel, Hermione Norris and Alun Armstrong. The banter he had with Philips was occasionally amusing but more often a bit overworked, and seem to fall flat. After the discovery of the dead man, Ryan and Frank arrive, find the local police in disarray, and they feel the wrath of Ryan's tongue. As always, there was an excellent mystery with many red herrings along the way before the solution was revealed.

The small village of Lady's Well has a spring which feeds the villagers their water, and it's found to have been corrupted with a red dye. And it is then moved to the future, when the first murder happens early in the book and the second soon after. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Everything is complicated by demonstrations about fracting in the area, as well as lack of authopsy for a long while in the book.