If The Daily Telegraph wrote a novel, this would be it. It was fairly well written but the ideology was cringeworthy and the characters, police procedural and little England setting were all unconvincing. Of the many other elements that annoyed me, I'll pick out the assumption that the reader will sympathise with the 'plight' of modern aristocrats, and the patronising treatment of all women characters under 30. At least it was free.
This was quite sweet and earnest and it didn't actively annoy me. It was rather unrealistic, of course, and both main characters acted (or not) on assumptions with no evidence to back them up, with the 'baddie' not actually being convincingly bad, at least until he was ramped up at the end. As I read it on my Kindle, so didn't really see the cover, I thought it was written by a woman right up until the acknowledgements, but that probably says more about my assumptions than the story/writing style itself.
