The Road Hole Bunker Mystery: A St. Andrews Murder Mystery

Throw in every private eye trope and the author's usual writing and you get this one. It's not the most exciting but it was well written and kept me reading.

A lot of it was clearly recycled into the Derek Adams stories as I remember reading entire passages that were in those in this as well. Those have the advantage of having all sorts of supernatural and other weirdness in them here though, the mystery in this is centered around golf. And like the main character, golf never interested me.

The character work is good and John Royle is a great main character. Of course, that's because he is just the same as Derek Adams and even has similar friends and a pub he goes to. The town itself was brought to life and made out almost to be a character as usual in a setting from the author.

So as we go along with the twist and turns and endless crazy characters, most with over the top Scottish accents, we stop an end I didn't entirely agree with or see the point of. But it was a fun ride getting there. This was worth the read as I enjoy the author's writing and ability to make things just fun.