After an atmospheric beginning, Booth settles down to a lengthy investigation marked by long stretches of unrelieved tedium in his second crime novel (after 2000's Black Dog). On Ringham Moor ...

Alec Marquand is an old man, lying dying in a The convoluted and unfocused first book in Booth's (War Dog ) new series begins with a promising hook, but then mostly just meanders through its ...