Interesting mystery but somewhat easy to solve

Dark Tide Rising: A William Monk Novel

By: Anne Perry

Rating: 4 of 5

I’m fairly new to books by Anne Perry but what I have read so far, I have enjoyed. “Dark Tide Rising” is the first in the William Monk series that I have read.

The plot was interesting as well as the characters. The characters are extremely well-rounded but makes me want to go back and read the earlier books to see where they came from to get to this point.

The plot, while interesting and well-written included a “whodunnit” that I found fairly easy to solve. I read a lot of mysteries, so that may be why it proved to be so. The caliber of the writing and the characters more than made up for my guessing the ending so soon.

In going through the book, I found it easy to follow. While I don’t feel you need to read the whole series and that the book can be read stand-alone, the book contained information that are a tad bit of spoilers for the earlier books. I’ll let a little time go by and hopefully forget some of those clues, then I’ll go back and read the earlier books with a fresh mind.

I was provided a digital advance reader copy of this book by the publisher via Netgalley.