What Would Wimsey Do?

What Would Wimsey Do? by Guy Fraser-Sampson, 300 pages

After 18 months of trying to track down a serial killer, the London detectives are still stymied. When a fifth body turns up, the lead detective is taken off the task force, and a young up-and-comer is brought on to stir things up. And stir he does, bringing in a psychologist to create a profile of the murderer, and taking odd new angles on the case. But will it work?

This book was a bit of a slog. The stuff that only comes up after a year and a half of investigating seems obvious to someone who has watched just a couple episodes of any detective TV show, and the Golden Age throwback (the theoretical hook for the story) doesn't happen until more than halfway through the book. I was more than a bit disappointed.