I enjoyed the murder-mystery and being on home soil for a change - I'm a bit of a Morse and Lewis fan, so this was right up my street. Unfortunately the lead characters left rather a lot to be desired: Tom's all right if a bit too much of a smart-arse for his own good, but Phil really pissed me off - when everything was finally out in the open I didn't believe in him. Given the last time they had seen each other Phil was constantly bloody rude to Tom when he should have been grovelling, or at least apologetic. I'd have told him to go fuck himself. When we did find out more about Phil's recent past I didn't think it made much sense that he'd still have this massive chip on his shoulder. 
 On the other hand some of the secondary characters were nicely drawn and more interesting - in particular the Reverend, Merry. I liked how Tom started out being a bit shuddery around him to feeling sorry for him - and that did follow a well reasoned path. Poor Merry :( 
 It seemed that the author didn't want the romance to overwhelm the plot, but then shoe-horned in a load of baggage between the 'romantic leads' which just made for unnecessary complications and did nothing to make me root for them to get together. 
 Overall an enjoyable whodunnit!