I found this an easy-to-read, fairly light-hearted cosy crime that overall I enjoyed reading. But it didn't score higher for me as I felt it was trying really hard to be a bit Bertie Wooster and just couldn't hit the spot. I liked Grasby well enough, and perhaps if I already knew him from the first book I would like him more? But I wasn't entirely sure who he was, and whether he had any skills as a police detective, or if he just stumbled into solutions by accident a lot of the time. And the language is definitely on a Wodehouse incline, but it just lacked a bit of spark.
There are a lots of intriguing characters, and I wondered what was going on & so kept on reading, and then reading a bit more, to try to discover the ending. I liked the post WW2 setting too, so it had lots of good elements.
With thanks to Net Galley for my copy.
Title: The Christmas Stocking Murders
Author: Denzil Meyrick
ISBN: 9780857506399
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