Dust

Dust is the most recent mystery by Martha Grimes featuring her Scotland Yard Detective Richard Jury. I've been steadily reading my way through this series from the beginning (The Man With a Load of Mischief) and am sad that I've reached the end. Grimes has done an excellent job of developing her main characters, Jury and his eccentric sidekick Melrose Plant, along with a plethora of other colorful recurring characters. In this installment Jury is still reeling from being outsmarted by a psychopath he meets in The Old Wine Shades and is somewhat desperate to solve this latest mystery. It turns out his nemesis from the previous novel is able to lend him a hand. All in all, Grimes waves a complicated and challenging mystery that kept me guessing almost until the end. Now I'll have to wait impatiently for the next in the series like all of her other fans who followed this series for years.