Flotsam & Jetsam by Keith Moray - first published in 2010
Set on the fictional Outer
Hebridean island of West Uist, this is the fourth novel featuring Inspector
Torquil McKinnon, so I have read them in the wrong order but I don’t think it
matters much. This is a crime novel in
the same vein as Midsomer Murders or Agatha Christie, i.e. it is an unlikely location for so many
murders and the people who are murdered aren’t the most popular members of the
community and are therefore not much mourned.
That said Flotsam and Jetsam is an entertaining and easy read with a
dramatic ending. Torquil and his police
colleagues Ewan and Morag are very likeable characters.
The
story starts with Torquil discovering a puppy that has deliberately been left
to drown in the sea, followed by a spate of burglaries and the death of a
renowned scientist, who is an expert on the Scottish midge. Someone else will die before the crime is
solved. 8/10
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