Reviews for The Mushroom Man

The average rating for The Mushroom Man based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-09 00:00:00 Derrick Walker Most excellent second in series featuring DI Charlie Priest in small-town Yorkshire. It's hard to nail down just what I love about this series--it's a combination of factors, I'm sure: writing style, an endearing main character, an interesting approach to the "police procedural" part of the book. It's not all detail about the one case, but also addresses the drudgery part of the job, that the brilliant deducting must be done while working on mounds of paperwork, pursuing leads in other cases and eating stale cheese and pickle sandwiches from the canteen. This story is especially gruesome in that it involves a kidnapped 8-year-old girl. The other main case is someone killing off clergy and leaving photos of the Destroying Angel mushroom at the scene of the crime. The cases themselves are mixed together in just the right proportion with details of Charlie's personal life and routines, and it's all sewn together brilliantly so that it reads perfectly. Glad that I already have the next two books in the series lined up, because I don't think it will be long before I get to them.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-12-01 00:00:00 Ifjdfdif Ikipkph Taunt and Enjoyable U.K. Police Series This is the second book in the D.I. Charlie Priest series. Charlie is a wise-cracking, art college graduate cop. He's a very, very good cop, but promotion has not come his way. Could his irreverence and wise-cracking have something to do with this? Pawson does a great job fleshing out Charlie's character and writes a compelling story. Despite murder and mayhem, there are some laugh-out-loud moments to balance the stress. Looking forward to reading the next book.