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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Quality research and writing are always a good thing and in this respect this book continues from the first in the series. Their are numerous references to the first story, but the book works perfectly as a standalone story, though my advice start at the beginning. Completely absorbing and engaging from start to finish, atmospheric clever descriptive intelligent storytelling at its best. Superb characterisation throughout, a mix of coming of age and old age, love lost and found, poignant sad occasionally funny with an intriguing murder mystery at its heart. Completely and utterly recommended. no reviews | add a review
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Fin Macleod returns to the outer Hebridean island of his youth to make amends and restore his parents' cottage before investigating a death involving family secrets and a sinister adversary. No library descriptions found. |
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Then a crime comes to light with the discovery of a bog body from the 1950s, proved to be related to Marsaili's father, a man who supposedly was an only child. Various anomalies soon arise, complicated by the fact that her father is suffering from Alzheimer's. Fin must race against time to discover the truth because a policeman will soon be arriving from the mainland who sees Marsaili's father as the prime suspect.
I didn't enjoy this book as much as volume one, partly because, although the narrative by the father was interesting as well as tragic, I couldn't really believe in such a coherent story being told by someone who, to all intents and purposes, couldn't connect to the real world except in odd bursts of lucidity. These couldn't really be his thoughts which, in reality, would be as disjointed as his behaviour and speech. It would only work if this narrative had been taken as extracts from a journal written before suffering from dementia, but there was no indication of that other than one odd torn page found later by the other characters. And since he refers to people who the reader knows to be Fin or the others who have just come to see him etc, his POV sections are obviously meant to be current. So this overextended the suspension of disbelief for me. Also, considering his narrative was meant to be the viewpoint of someone deprived of almost all education, I found the vocabulary unconvincing - use of terms such as 'penumbrous shadows' didn't sound natural and struck me as more how a university don would express themselves.
The parts with Fin are not very interesting, partly because I've got rather bored with his depressive, negative attitude to everything and the treatment of Marsaili as a victim. The pace finally picks up at the end, but overall I can only rate this at 3 stars. ( )