Hi Mike

Yours is a fair appraisal of Alan Hunter's George Gently Does it.
Most of his works are very similar in content and I found them OK for very light reading and bedtime reading.

There are a reasonably long range ranging from -:

Gently in The Sun
Gently Down the Stream
Landed Gently etc etc.

The TV series are much better than the books. I usually find this the other way round.

I find them similar in the lack of literary content as the Wycliffe series. Although in this case the TV series is not a lot better than the books. Again good light reading if you like that kind of thing.

Cheers

MikeL2