"Broken Skin" by Stuart Macbride

Slightly slowly, I have now finished this. Though I felt I was getting into it at ab out the halfway/two-thirds point, it seemed to go slightly off the boil

I enjoyed the way the main character (a DS) was drawn – very believable, but “supportable”. was less happy withe the rater cartoon-like DIs who were his bosses

I guess the characters are being built up into a set of players that is TV-marketable, but it’s a shame that the individual book suffers as a result