This is the first in a series featuring D.I. Hillary Greene who works at a police station in Oxford, England. When we meet her for the first time she is being investigated herself due to her husband's criminal offences. At the same time she has to continue doing her job to the best of her abilities.

I enjoyed all the characters in her team and Hillary herself is a very interesting and capable person. There is a lot of good, every day police work plus an intriguing mystery.

I enjoyed it very much and will certainly continue with the series.49 s Barry who enjoys well-written thrillers, mysteries , & espionage & loathes romance, horror & supernat388 76

I invested 90 minutes in this book and nothing happened. It is clearly not for me. IÂ’m old and canÂ’t waste time on things I donÂ’t care for.just-couldn-t-finish46 s1 comment Richard1,979 166

A new author to me; he books are being re-packaged and re-released for a fresh and unsuspecting audience. This is fine but from experience faithful readers can get caught out and buying books they have already read. Murder on the Oxford Canal was originally published in 2004 under the title "A Narrow Escape."
This is a fine police procedural with a tight plot that is well written by its author, Faith Martin. Although written, now some 13 years ago, it doesn't feel dated or out of time, however it lacks some direction and pace that more recent crime thrillers have. While it isn't a classic it has a clever plot with a range of characters and sub plots to sustain one's interest.
However, these don't always work for me especially regarding the fascination with appearance and sexual attraction for the female police officers by most of the male staff. For me this took the edge of the credibility of the main protagonist DI Hillary Greene, her back story also didn't fit in my opinion with the person she was throughout this investigation.
However, it was a crime story set around canals and narrowboats that led me to want to read this first episodein this series.
The sense of life on a boat was well conveyed and the standout pages are the discriptions of the early police raid in search of drugs.
There is nothing here to really disappoint and many will find it a refreshing read, I hope you do too.
44 s Zain1,628 200

A New Author!

I have sadly noticed that a lot of British detective series have female officers openly harassed by co-workers, ex-boyfriends and the damn public!

How are they supposed to be able to do a damn good job? IsnÂ’t life difficult enough, being a cop?

Well, anyway, Hilary Green is a fighter. A straight-shooter, a role-model any way you look at her.

When a dead body is found in the canal, she has her suspicions about the killer and reasons for the murder.

The ending was so surprising that I know that I will be purchasing the next book in this series.

Four stars. ????british female-authors group-reads ...more39 s Adrian608 233

Review tomorrow
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