Lonely Hearts (A Resnick Novel)

This book is about a serial rapist attacking and later killing a number of women contacted through the lonely hearts pages of the local newspaper. The investigation proceeds without much melodramatic incident - which means that the investigation is portrayed realistically - though it no less suspenseful or exciting for that.

I enjoyed almost everything about this book: the humour (and there is humour even amid horrors on the streets), the slightly down-at-heel grittiness of it, and the characterisation, especially of Resnick and Rachel Chaplin, a young social worker with whom Resnick becomes involved.

Suffice to say that I have already bought other books in the series and am looking forward to reading them too.