Synopsis
This is the fifth whodunit set in the unorthodox Scottish retirement village in the lovely countryside surrounding Edinburgh. Regular readers will be unsurprised that there are murky goings-on in the village, but for once they’re not getting the attention they deserve. The sharp-eyed reader will have noticed this book is called a Grasshopper Lawns affair, not the usual whodunit, and although it is as much a whodunit as the earlier four, there's, well, a distraction. A few. There’s progress on Edge’s potential TV series. Donald sets up a visit to his slightly dubious social club (which, it turns out, sails nearer than he had ever intended to the extremely dodgy world of leather fetishism and BDSM), and Vivian upsets the apple-cart by nearly dying of pneumonia. One way and another, the four friends are definitely distracted, and even wondering whether they are so used to intrigue that they are making mountains out of molehills. Like the others in the series, it is a novella and, despite the rambling tone, moves along fairly briskly. Red herrings happen. It is both the darkest, and the most light-hearted, book in the series so far. Begin Again, indeed.
From the Author
This book was something of a shock to not only younger readers, who tend to think that anyone over forty has given over thinking of love, but to some of the older readers. For all that they know love is for anyone, any age, they were taken aback that sedate, sensible Edge could get herself into such an odd outing in the first place.
So you have been warned. Being at the far end of middle age does not make us all sensible. Whodunits must, above all else, be true to the times they are set in, and there are strange people out there in the dark. You're in safe hands, but be prepared for a visit to a place that may be best when experienced vicariously. That's why you read, right?
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