A review by jlmb
The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey

4.0

Found this in the bargain bin at the used bookstore & I'm glad I did. I was in the mood for a classic murder mystery and this delivered in spades. The last mystery I read was so pretentious and boring that it made this one seem great. Set in current day(well, 2003) Britain, the plot concerns both a woman being strangled at a crowded beach with no one noticing and a serial killer who has named several future victims who seem to have nothing in common. Are the two crimes related or not? The reader gets to know a bit about the detectives working the cases but not too much. It is a crime story, not a character driven story. I found it the right amount of back story-enough to like the detectives and find them compelling, but not so much that the crime takes a back seat to the internal lives of the characters.Hopefully the other books in this series are just as entertaining.