I liked the first book in this series, about Dr Nell Ward, the expert in bats who stumbled across a crime scene and was implicated in a murder, because it was quirky and I enjoyed the bat ecology facts. This second book is more like murder at Downton Abbey, as Nell (who also happens to be a member of the landed gentry) is hosting a society wedding in her stately home. Too many posh people. Also, the love triangle between Nell, the policeman who arrested and then fell in love with her, and her colleague, Rav, who is also in love with her but feels inadequate to her poshness, gets quite annoying.
Plus there was hardly any ecology, with nesting owls and an aggressive falcon getting barely a mention in spite of the title. I think I have bought at least one more book in the series which was on a 99p kindle deal, otherwise I don’t think I would bother reading any more after this one.
Sarah Wray Writer 