Deeply Flawed - DNF

Does the author really expect the reader to believe a Royal Mail letter carrier who reads all his customers' mail, chats about its contents in detail on the doorstep with them, withholds mailed items he is entrusted to deliver until the customer lets him view their contents, and literally follows people into their own homes to harass them into showing him what they have been sent? Such invasion of privacy by a Royal Mail employee entrusted with delivering the post would be a sackable offence. Further, an exploding letter bomb that kills an employee on the job would warrant nationwide media attention. It would involve various levels of law enforcement, and generate at least one inquiry. The union would get immediately involved and the whole thing would be an unholy mess. There's no way a ragtag group of self-appointed "detectives" would be given any access to, or credibility by, actual investigators. In this book, there is scant police attention to the crime, and bizarrely, neither the postal union nor the national media show up. A mystery should be credible in its main premise for the reader to willingly follow the author. I enjoyed the first book in this series but this one is a disaster, and I won't be buying another. DNF.

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