The Highland Fling Murders

A Murder, She Wrote Mystery , #8

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301 pages

English language

Published Dec. 21, 1997 by Signet.

ISBN:
978-0-451-18851-9
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OCLC Number:
36567748

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3 stars (2 reviews)

The seventh novel based on the television program finds Jessica Fletcher on a visit to a reputedly haunted castle in Scotland, where a local lass is found murdered in same way as a legendary witch.

2 editions

reviewed The Highland Fling Murders by Donald Bain (Murder, She Wrote, #8)

A High Point So Far

3 stars

I honestly had pretty low hopes for this installment in the series, since I assumed it would feature heavily on the character of George Sutherland, whom I don't care about. I read for two reasons--Jessica and murder. Not Jess's romances. Even so, the story kept my interest the whole way through. A creepy old castle thrust into darkness, with the pall of the local town's urban legend hanging over everyone, spooky apparitions, and a close call for our protagonist on an outing. Like a Scottish haunted house story. Unfortunately, as seems to be a theme for these books, the ending got muddied. Motivations were a bit lacking, and the killer(s) not believable. Overall, an improvement for sure, but these still need work.

reviewed The Highland Fling Murders by Donald Bain (Murder, She Wrote, #8)

Review of 'The highland fling murders' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

These books are as average as the TV show and still somehow amazing. Again, at the very beginning there seemed to have been a bit of homophobia in one of the sentences, but I could be a bit over sensitive—it seemed to be fine throughout afterwards.
Nice gap filler book.

Subjects

  • Fletcher, Jessica (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • Women detectives -- Fiction.
  • Women novelists -- Fiction.
  • Artists -- Fiction.
  • Maine -- Fiction.
  • Scotland -- Fiction.