Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson

I’m quite ambivalent about this book. It’s a murder mystery/detective thing that switches between the points of view of several characters and between two periods of time. I was confused about which detective was which from beginning right through to the end. And I also found the main characters fairly unsympathetic at the outset, not really establishing themselves as people I cared about until well into the second half of the book. Some of the characters were really quite irrelevant. So, while I wanted to find the answer to the mystery and finished the book for that reason, I really found it unnecessarily complicated and a bit of a chore. 2 stars