A review by jfbfsf
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry

3.0

It was a solid mystery. The plot/writing felt clean, if that's a reasonable way to describe a story. The character is fairly straightforward. She doesn't spend a lot of time sitting in cafes thinking, flashing back to things that happened in her childhood or flashing forward to some dramatic event around which the rest of the story is framed.
She sees something happen, gets involved, and from there gets caught up with new characters and situations in a steadily paced, forward moving story.
Some of the characters were a little cliched, and while I didn't see the particulars of the ending until I was almost there, I did guess at the involvement of certain parties because of their repeat appearance in this fairly streamlined story. No need to dwell on randoms unless they are going to play a part in propelling the story forward.
This wasn't an un-put-downable, suspense on every page thriller. But I enjoyed reading it, and I'll read her next one, too.