Review: The Ghost Village Murders

The Ghost Village Murders by Rachel McLean
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The conclusion to this long-running series.

Two young girls partying with their friends find the body of a young woman in the Ghost village of the title. The body turns out to be that of DC Fran Dugdale, one of the two Police Conduct officers who were interrogating DS Dennis Frampton.

The good news is that we now know who killed DCI Mackie. The bad news is, frankly that's all we know. The rest of my gripes will be in spoilers.

(view spoiler)[I'm still not sure who killed Hamm or why he was broken out of prison in the first place. As others have said, is DI Angus (Beef) a goodie or a baddie? Was DC Dugdale really engaged to one man and also sleeping with DI Angus? Why did Dave Watson kidnap Lesley's daughter and then just leave her in the Orangutan enclosure? Indeed why did she come home sobbing that time? Why did Collingwood/Watson/Kelvin start killing all the people who broke Hamm out of jail?(view spoiler)[

As others have said, this felt like a throw in the kitchen sink final, we had cameo appearances from all the other series, multiple plots going off in all directions and a hurried end.

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