I have certain 'pet-peeves' with Detective/Mystery novels and thankfully you seem to have avoided many of them (e g. criminals coming after the detective or his family -1 have realized that they stayed as far away from me as possible; sultry redheads lurking about (never in 40 yrs....!); characters with names like 'Sky Flint, Dirk Stone. Rachel Lovely, etc." -1 dealt with people like Jacob Babbage, Lester Smelky et al.; and car chases, shoot-outs again etc. which never happened in my career!! Surveillance is almost always boring (and you don't park in front of the suspects residence, nor pull out directly behind them in traffic or follow1 them as the only other car on deserted streets or country roads). Real investigate work is tedious and hard, with a modicum on luck involved.

Well, anyway, I enjoy you works and again Thanks for the 'heads up' on diabetes,
Respectfully.
Robert Burns ps. And Yes, my name really is Robert Burns (most on this side of pond, have no due as to who 'Rabbie Burns' was....!)