Baldacchi is a real favourite of mine and I couldn’t put this down. Archer is a great character, engaging and with humour. A real hero.

Keeps you going on reading and wanting to know more!

this was a good story and well crafted to a conclusion, extremely engaging characters.

A lively paced thriller with plenty of twists and turns. If you’re a fan of Jack Reacher, you’ll appreciate the virtues of Aloysius Archer.

This is not at all the sort of book that I usually read, but I was inspired to borrow it after someone in my book group told us about the Aloysius Archer series. This is Book 1 and set in 1949. Archer is a young demobbed soldier who fought in WW2 in Europe and was imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit when he returned to the US. Now out of jail he arrives in a small town and checks in with his parole officer. Before long he’s hired by the town’s richest man to retrieve a bond from a wealthy rival. When both men are subsequently murdered the police suspect Archer, who ends up having to investigate the killings and later has to defend himself in court. I found this a smooth and easy read and I very much enjoyed it. Baldacci has written it in the style of a 1940s crime noir novel and done this so successfully you really feel it could have been written by one of the classic crime writers. Freyja, Oundle Crime