It is a good storyline,a very good one,the characters are elaborated and very believable but it is not exactly the most suspenseful nor exciting crime/mystery book on the market.It is a good read but not an edge of your seat book.

Marjorie Eccles can always be counted on to provide a mystery that is complex but at the same time utterly believable.  A Sunset Touch is a well done thriller where Gil Mayo and his team must solve two cases - one of murder/arson the other an unexplained attack on the wife of an elderly vicar.  It comes as no surprise to the reader that the two cases end up being related.  Everything  is related to two Polish refugees who fled Poland during WWII and fought alongside members of the RAF.  

While the mystery is competently composed and the background is intriguing as well as well thought out, somehow A Sunset Touch is not as compelling as Eccles other novels.  It didn’t generate the emotional involvement that I’ve come to expect of her novels.  Mayo and his team go through the motions, but they are cardboard versions of the characters I enjoy.  On the whole, while the novel was good, it wasn’t nearly up to Eccles’s normal standard.

3/5

I received a copy of A Sunset Touch from the publisher and netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review

—Crittermom