First Lines: Friday afternoon. Standing in a queue at the supermarket, staring at the floor, the basket weighing heavily in my right hand.
Detective Inspector Ben Westphall needs all of his experience in MI6 and all of his intuition to solve his latest case. Twelve years ago, John Baden was killed in Estonia. His body was identified and buried. Yet he's just walked into a police station, and as strange as his story sounds, it's going to get even stranger.
Westfall travels from the Scottish Highlands to Estonia to investigate, but when the people on his list of suspects begin to die, he realizes that someone is trying to cover up the truth.
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Each time I discover a new mystery series set in the Highlands of Scotland, I'm all over it like a rash. I've discovered several new authors this way, many of whom are on my favorites list. After forcing my way through Song of the Dead, I can categorically state that Douglas Lindsay did not make that list.
I could not connect with any of the characters, and although I liked being reminded of places like Inverness and the Cromarty Firth, soon the only reason why I continued to read this book was to try to figure out what was going on. However, the plot became more and more convoluted, and without a character I could connect with to guide me through the story, I was reading just to get to the bottom of things and finish the book.
Douglas Lindsay is not an author for me, but that's not to say that he can't be someone whose writing you enjoy-- especially if you like reading about places like Scotland and Estonia.
Song of the Dead by Douglas Lindsay
eISBN: 9781473696921
Hodder & Stoughton © 2019
eBook, 319 pages
Police Procedural, #1 DI Westphall mystery
Rating: D
Source: Purchased from Amazon.
