Being from Vancouver Island and with two relatives members of the RCMP, I must admit I was distracted by the geographical descriptions and the comments about the force. That being said I really enjoyed this book and will be getting the first two in the series and I look forward to the next installment. ( )

I really enjoyed "Twilight is not good for maidens" by Lou Allin. I wasn't aware it was the 3rd in a series until I received the book. That being said I had no trouble following the story and cannot wait to go back and read the first two.

Holly Martin is a constable and being the closest living to where a brutal assault takes place is the first responder. Another assault ending in rape and murder soon follows. Meanwhile at their 3 person unit one of their own a Sikh running radar is accused of sexual assault resulting in a harsh female replacement.

The Canadian backdrop was an integral part of the story and interesting to learn about as well.

A good solid mystery. ( )

The book started out very slow. if you kept on the story, time lines and characters became more real. I would recomend this book to others to read. ( )

It took me a while to get into this but once I had got through the first 50 pages it became un-put-downable. The characterisation is largely believable and the description of the area made me feel like I really did know the setting. I have only one criticism (and it is not only this book where it happens) once the resolution is enacted it is a very short lived part of the story giving the sense that the author was in a hurry to finish and get on with the next. All in all a good read. ( )

Twilight is Not Good for Maidens is at its heart a mystery, but Allin's intense details that range from the inner workings of the police force and the Canadian environment call upon a literary fiction style of writing as well. The main protagonist of the story is Holly Martin, who is a police office for a small outpost on Vancouver Island. Throughout the story Martin deals with two different story threads--the rape and murder of a young woman and the removal of one of her deputies due to a trumped up sexual harassment charge. The two threads intertwine as Martin has to deal with a larger murder investigation squad that takes the case over, and a young woman who is sent to replace her problematic deputy.

At times the dialogue drones on a little bit and the central mystery does seem a little mired down by all the detail. Holly Martin is an intriguing character that made me want to continue reading, however. ( )