The Lucky Elephant Restaurant: A Detective Lane Mystery Book

I enjoyed this and it was nice to read a LAMDA winner from 2007 but it wasn't my favourite in the list of nominees for the mystery category that year.

It was an ok mystery but kind of predictable. I like mysteries that keep me guessing to the end and the murderer was just plain to see early on in the story.

I enjoyed this more than book one in the series because I am now familiar with the characters in the book. The one thing I didn't like was the crazy religious people. I always feel that mad or bad religious people are just so common in gay literature and i can understand why, but after a while it becomes boring. It is such an over used trope and i normally avoid these books because, yes I am a religious person and no i am not mad or bad. Or at least not every day, only on Thursdays .

So yes despite the niggles and dislikes overall it was a good story with an interesting story line and characters. Apart from the mad/bad ones.