![]() ![]() I have to say this has been one of my most entertaining reads in 2018, it's an absolute cracking mystery. The murder is really just a side issue in a chick-lit type of novel. ![]() ![]() There's little build-up to the denouement. It's not until the last half hour of so of the recording that anything much happens when the murderer is revealed at breakneck speed. Someone gets murdered but the narrative meanders among the relationships going back and forth in time and told from the perspective of the various characters. The staff comprise a dour gamekeeper and a female manager both full of pain from their pasts, plus a handyman who figures little for most of the story. Full of stereotypical characters none of whom are likeable. This get-together is in a remote hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands that ends with them being cut-off by bad weather: shades of Agatha Christie. Most are friends from university who meet up annually to have a hedonistic few days over-indulgiing in expensive food and drink and playing silly pranks. ![]() Hours of descriptions of relationships among a group of privileged 30-somethings from London. Takes nearly the whole book for anything to happen ![]()
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