(Though I know not every character can be equally developed.) I did enjoy the Scottish setting. The characters just weren't quite as developed as I would have liked. And I think this series might have potential. Then again, before this year, I never thought I would read a mystery. I NEVER thought I would read a book (voluntarily) about fishing. Fortunately, Hamish is there for Alice whether she wants his advice or not. But what is love for Alice, is just a meaningless fling for Jeremy. Two strangers who are drawn together even before this murder investigation begins. We learn a little about each of the characters with special attention to Alice Wilson and Jeremy Blythe. Can Macbeth piece together the clues before Blair does? Though he didn't want to solve the murder before Chief Inspector Blair told him not to get in the way of the case, he does now. They've begun interviewing everyone, and begun examining the evidence. A team of detectives, led by Blair, has arrived and are ready to handle this one. But he's not 'big enough' to solve a murder.or is he? Officially, he is off the case. There is a local constable, Hamish Macbeth. One of them fishing her body from the lake-she was strangled and wrapped in chains. Still, it is somewhat of a shock when Lady Jane ends up being the catch of the day. More than one person wishes Lady Jane was dead. It isn't too long before the others start talking about her. She deliberately sets out to annoy and aggravate everyone she encounters. When the novel opens, they are preparing to welcome this week's clients: Marvin and Amy Roth, Lady Jane Winters, Jeremy Blythe, Alice Wilson, Charlie Baxter, Major Peter Frame, and Daphne Gore. John and his wife, Heather, own a fishing school in Lochdubh.

People who travel up here to the wilds of Scotland expect to be instructed by some great hairy Rob Roy, making jokes about saxpence and saying it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht and lang may your lum reek and ghastly things like that.'

Then I always feel I have to apologize for being English. 'I hate the start of the week,' said John Cartwright fretfully.

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