As a reader, I really love a mystery that is well-crafted and keeps the reader guessing right to the very end. ‘A Murder Of Crows’ is one such book, and I find myself unable to recommend it highly enough.
Delusion and illusion obscure truth and reality in this suspenseful, intricate story of dysfunction in families and friendships, and of interconnected secretive webs of pretence and deceit that have tragic circumstances for the residents of a small Scottish village near Loch Ness.
This book is beautifully written, full of powerful imagery and laced with foreboding that is almost palpable. The bleak hopelessness that pervade the lives of some of the characters contrasts with the anger and resentment that fills the motivations and actions of others. The characters are realistic and complex, each with their own burdens and mysteries that they carry throughout the story as the threads of the main storyline weave themselves around them.
The Audible narration of the book is expressive and perfectly suited to the story, being delivered in the author’s own Scottish voice.
‘A Murder Of Crows’ has been awarded a Gold Acorn.
