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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Book set in two times: the initial murder and then 25 years later when the 4 main suspects of the first murder are being killed off. Entertaining, complex murder mystery set in Scotland. Better than average who-done-it. This murder mystery has a Scottish accent. Four university men are caught up in the homicide of a bar maid. Some twists and turns are predictable and some are not - none are annoying or insulting. The story is well told and not disjointed. I was able to read the story in bits and pieces over several days without getting lost. My only criticism is when the author becomes confused regarding the sleep patterns of a character. One specific night he is "feeling as if he had been asleep for minutes instead of hours" (p. 253) and then when describing a period of time taht was included the earlier description the character has "slept more deeply than he had since childhood" (p. 268.) Silly. Well, I guessed "who done it" . . . before the end, but that's okay. I will add author Val McDermid to my reading list. Having a police officer that raped and murdered the girl made it a nightmare for the 4 college boys that found her body. He killed 2 of them off after 25 years and was in the process of murdering the other 2. no reviews | add a review
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Never read Val McDermid, but now I'm hooked. This is a well written page turner. (