You, like me might learn a bit about swimming while reading this latest in a procedural series that's fine as a standalone. it's a short one that could have been longer.

Deftly Drawn…
The sixth Brighton mystery finds Gilchrist and Heap investigating the death of a campaigner for a local lido. Before too long further deaths give them cause for consternation when they realise that they are also swimming related. Could someone really be targeting open water swimmers? A good sense of time and place combines with deftly drawn characters for an amiable and enjoyable mystery.

This feedback is based solely on the first 7 chapters as I could not face any more. I was looking forward to reading Peter Guttridge again, his Nick Madrid series is great fun to read. However this book really isn't much fun and regrettably is boring, there seems to be a great deal of background research done on swimming but then little selection of material to include. There was so much more of this than any of the police procedural work, and I have to say if this book was supposed to contemporary there was so much 'banter' that wouldn't be deemed acceptable in today's workplace as someone would take offence. Such a shame that this was such a disappointing read. Perhaps it gets better but being around 40% through and not caring whether I finished it or not decided that I have so many other titles to read that I abandoned ship.

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The first body that is discovered, at the under-threat local lido, is that of Roland Gulliver. One of the Save the Salthaven Lido campaigners. D.I. Sarah Gilchrist and D.S. Bellamy Heap investigate. But there will be more bodies but what is the motive and connection.
A somewhat slow paced book, and I did lose some interest with all the talk about swimming the channel.

SWIMMING WITH THE DEAD is a scary, thrilling novel by Peter Guttridge. I am glad I was picked to read this one because it is amazing. It has bit of everything, suspense, heart and great characters.

This was a fairly slow paced book and I found that there were parts that did not hold my interest as much. I usually prefer my crime with a little more action and I felt this was lack8ng slightly

Not my idea of fun, if you are interested in swimming the channel this book is for you, unfortunately not for me.