{"id":12900,"date":"2019-10-09T19:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12900"},"modified":"2019-10-09T19:30:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:30:37","slug":"moorings-by-david-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12900","title":{"rendered":"‘Moorings,’ by David Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When a decorated World War II hero<\/strong> is found drowned in his bath \u2013 not by accident, according to the coroner \u2013 Detective Inspector John Tanner and his partner (both personal and professional) Jenny Evans are pulled from missing persons duty to look into it. There are two surviving sons, and a pair of adult twin grandchildren. None of them seems to need money enough to kill the old man for the value of the decaying boatyard he owns. That\u2019s the premise of David Blake\u2019s novel Moorings<\/a><\/em>, third in his Norfolk Broads police procedural series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People kill for motives other than money, however. The\nsuspect pool gradually shrinks as one by one the heirs are murdered, and in the\nend Tanner and Jenny will face the irrational fury of someone who has suffered\nan old, unpunished crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moorings <\/em>was an enjoyable, fast-paced mystery with appealing characters. I thought the plot had some weaknesses \u2013 there are a whole lot of coincidences, and the police procedures seemed kind of loosely observed to me (though perhaps their rules of evidence are different from the American). Also, Tanner and Jenny witness a particularly harrowing death that seems (to me) to affect them rather less than it should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As in all the books, there\u2019s a Bible passage at the\nbeginning. And we are told that Tanner is weakening in his agnosticism. Which\nis always nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended, for entertainment purposes. Mild cautions for\nthe usual stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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