Murder at the Highland Games - Blog Tour
Review - 5 out of 5 stars:
I have loved the previous theee books in the Ally McKinley Mysteries series, so I was thrilled to get my hand on book four, Murder at the Highland Games.
This time around, Ally has a family of Canadians staying. Pretty soon, a death occurs at the games, and Ally is soon sleuthing!
I really enjoyed this book. I love coming back to the characters that I love (animals as well as humans). It’s nice to see Ally and Ross enjoying their life together, in spite of all the murders!
The location was, as always, absolutely lovely. I love reading books set in beautiful locations, especially when the author has balanced and blended the descriptions so well with the main plot.
The mystery was rather baffling to start with, there were so many people who might want the victim out of the way. The story kept me guessing until almost the end.
Overall, this was an excellent addition to a great series. I can’t wait to read the next.
I was given a copy of this book, my opinions are my own.
About the Author:
Dee MacDonald grew up on an isolated farm in the Scottish Highlands. An only child, she’d often get fed up of reading and listening to a crackling radio, so her mother encouraged her to draw and to write ‘wee stories’, which she’d sew together into little books.
As an adult, her working life took her all over the globe as an air stewardess, into the world of TV, where she worked in Market Research and Sales, and then into hospitality, running B&Bs for over ten years.
After first finding her love of writing as a little girl, Dee became a published author of cosy crime and women’s fiction in her seventies. She lives by the sea in Cornwall with her husband, and has one son and two grandsons.
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Blurb and Buy Link:
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When a fun day out in the Scottish Highlands turns fatal, there’s only one solution: call for Ally McKinley!
It’s the annual Locharran Highland Games and Ally McKinley has never seen her little village so busy or excited. Everyone’s enjoying the Scottish dancing, the bagpipes, and cheering the competitors on. But there’s a hitch in the proceedings when champion challenger Archie Armstrong drops dead in the middle of tossing the caber. Rushing to the scene, Ally is the first to spot that Archie’s death was no accident – this was murder!
Ally flings herself into a new investigation and soon discovers that more than one person may have had a murderous motive, including some of the current residents of her cosy little guesthouse. Patti, Archie’s glamourous wife, seems intent on acting like the perfect widow, but rumours of infidelity have been flying. Is her performance too good? Could her uncle, cranky gamekeeper Angus, have finally snapped, furious at Archie’s treatment of his niece? Or was it one of the frustrated local competitors, desperate to end Archie’s winning streak?
Determined to crack the case and fuelled by more than one piece of her famous shortbread, Ally begins to narrow down her list of possible culprits, but is thrown for a loop when her chief suspect is found dead by the loch, a mysterious and threatening note clutched in their fingers. With a killer at large, can Ally finally uncover the truth? Or, as the sun sets over the highlands, will this game be her last?
For fans of Agatha Christie, Faith Martin and Clare Chase, this totally unputdownable cozy mystery set in the beautiful Scottish Highlands will have you turning the pages late into the night!
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