Today was a perfect day for an old mystery novel.
And as usual with Barnard, half of the book is about stuff that happens before The Crime, and then we get half a book of sleuthing. The problem with this kind of structure is that you have to have sufficiently interesting characters to pull it off, but Barnard is pretty good at that.
This is not his best work, though. I mean, it’s fine.
The Bad Samaritan (1995) by Robert Barnard (buy used, 3.61 on Goodreads)