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Gently Does It

Alan Hunter

Start date: June 15, 2025

Finish date: July 7, 2025

Discussion: Buddy reads

Why we're reading this: First book in this classic series
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Sep 07, 2021 Sandy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-detective-grp, read-2025, mystery-historical, z2021-go-the-distance, rread-2021

What a kind, GENTLE and dogged inspector. This is a quiet pleasant police procedural with an interesting plot. I will read others but don't expect to ever read all 46. ...more

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Sep 16, 2018 AngryGreyCat rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-police-procedural

I just read my first Alan Hunter book from the George Gently series. I loved the TV show, in which Martin Shaw, played Gently.

The book had a lot of differences, as far as location and back story, however the character of George Gently himself shines through. Martin Shaw did a superb job bringing this character to life. In Gently Does It, a wealthy timber dealer is murdered at the same time his errant son happens to be in town. All fingers point to the son, but Gently doesn’t believe it. Calmly ...more

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