A fantastic series of books, of which Poison on the Levels is number seven, featuring DS Kate Lewis or Hamblin as she was before she married DC Hayden Lewis.
This book shows her still working in the same team. The book begins with a callout to an apparent suicide, but it soon becomes clear that there is someone sending nasty poison pen letters to a number of people, which drove this particular recipient to kill himself. There seems to be no motive apart from the malicious pleasure the writer seems to derive from sending them. At the same time as the letter being investigated, Kate has to report a missing woman who attended a music festival and never returns home. To Kate, it seems like a woman just evading her unfaithful husband initially, but as time goes by and she doesn’t resurface, Kate has to rethink her strategy and comes to the conclusion it is maybe something more sinister. There are more deaths that cannot be explained and eventually Kate and her husband wonder if the two cases could be connected at all. It becomes clear they are struggling with who can be trusted or not and Kate being Kate, ends up diving in to a perilous situation!
I enjoyed reading this and, although I have not read any of the other books in the series, I got the characters. I loved the way the team are all different, but each one’s weakness is complimented by a strength in another member. I will be finding the other six at some point! I liked this story that much and I can only say, I bet it’s even better after reading the rest.
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