Same characters, same conversations...

[Agnieszka]

4th in the series, but you get the feel like you might still be reading the first one. Characters are not developing, main hero has not a one flaw, characters are having nearly exactly the same conversations throughout the four books about the same topics. Not to mention that the characters themselves are pretty simple and constantly unprofessional - in one book you could live with it, but by now it got boring. I don't think I'll be reaching for the rest of the series anytime soon.

[[deleted user]]

I'd agree, I found the later books in the series very repetitive. I suppose it might have been better with longer gaps between the series, but when read in sequence, the later ones were rather dull.

[Helen]

I agree and I think its worse because as you read through them they also like to refer back to the previous cases. I lost track of the amount of times the reader is reminded how Inspector Colbeck first met Madeline and her father!

[Greg]

Agnieszka wrote: "4th in the series, but you get the feel like you might still be reading the first one. Characters are not developing, main hero has not a one flaw, characters are having nearly exactly the same con..."

Agreed, and I've only read 1 book in the series, "The Iron Horse", in which the characters repeated the exact same things over and over. And the writing is just juvenile. That's not a bad thing if your target audience is very young readers, say pre-teens. I'll not read anymore of these.