May Rinaldi recently retired as a health and safety consultant. Previous jobs included as a lab technician and a taxidermist; all of which have proved extremely useful when writing crime. She lives in Dumfries with her Norwegian husband, two cats and several hens, but spends a lot of time on Gozo, Malta’s sister island, and decided to set her novel there due to the many characters and settings invoked by the island.
I understand why you didn’t begin with the much easier-to-process ‘DCI’ – the reader may not know the abbreviation. On the other hand, this is a crime genre book; we might be relatively safe to assume the reader would know it. The problem is that the first sentence begins with a threeword job title: not the
