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'Barbara Pym meets Dan Brown . . . The strengths of BURY HER DEEP all derive from the voice of the narrator. Respectably married to the deeply conventional Hugh Gilver, Dandy is brisk, baffled, heroic, kindly, scandalised and above all very funny as she sleuths her way through the Scottish countryside.'
'Captivating and beautifully written Reminiscent of a wittier and less savage reworking of THE WICKER MAN, this book is alternately funny and chilling and works on a number of levels. A most original mystery novel.'
(Historical Novels Review )
'McPherson is on to a winner with her 1920s society sleuth Dandy Gilver, who is the most engaging and ingenious crime-cracker I've met in ages. She is gauche but perceptive, married but unromantic (although there's a lovely frisson to her co-solver), sly but endearingly innocent. The period detail is accomplished and convincing, the crime is neatly convoluted and McPherson's prose bristles with clever asides under a lucid surface. I wouldn't be surprised if she is translated on to the small screen soon, and I can't wait for her next adventure.' (Scotland on Sunday on AFTER THE ARMISTICE BALL )
'What a tonic it turned out to be'
(Fiona Walker )'Engaging and mysterious'
(Candis on BURY HER DEEP )'Dandy Gilver is a delightful heroine'
(My Weekly )'McPherson is an exemplary crime writer, effortlessly balancing the driest wit with melodramatic suspense. Her range of reference is seriously literary, her research impeccable, and her exuberance with period detail utterly beguiling. And Dandy herself is wonderful: blundering bravely through this mad and murky tale with perfect aplomb and a drop-dead vocabulary, she is a lesson to us all.' (Scotsman )
'Dandy Gilver is an enthralling heroine; part Dorothy Parker, part Miss Marple, utterly engaging. Catriona seems to have managed to transform the stiff prose of the era into something wonderfully fluid and beguiling. Absolutely wonderful. A real treat.'
(Kirsty Scott )
'Compelling' (Publishers Weekly starred review )
'engaging and mysterious’ (Candis )
SCOTSMAN on AFTER THE ARMISTICE BALL
'McPherson is an exemplary crime writer, effortlessly balancing the driest
wit with melodramatic suspense. Her range of reference is seriously
literary, her research impeccable, and her exuberance with period detail
utterly beguiling. And Dandy herself is wonderful: blundering bravely
through this mad and murky tale with perfect aplomb and a drop-dead
vocabulary, she is a lesson to us all.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
wit with melodramatic suspense. Her range of reference is seriously
literary, her research impeccable, and her exuberance with period detail
utterly beguiling. And Dandy herself is wonderful: blundering bravely
through this mad and murky tale with perfect aplomb and a drop-dead
vocabulary, she is a lesson to us all.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A real treat,
By Whiskbroom (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bury Her Deep (Hardcover)
McPherson's third novel in the Dandy Gilver Mystery series once again transported me to the `other world' in the way that only well told stories can. It's a real treat to watch this `sleuth' find her feet and once again unravel a suitably complex case in a tightly knit community that has its own ways of dealing with things.
Read it if you fancy a vivid picture of life in between-the-wars Fife and Rural Scotland: the women are strong here, yet the portrayal of them is subtle and humorous. Read it if you hanker after the community that 'Rural Institutes' and craft making can bring: it's not all cosy knitting and sweet jam it seems! Read it if you like the language in your novels to ooze humour and local colour. Read it if you like suspense and menace and are impressed when this is delivered without the author resorting to laboured, gruesome sex and violence. Most of all read it if you like your stories to be involving, intriguing and with action right to the plot-twisting end. Can't wait for the next one.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A classic period mystery,
This review is from: Bury Her Deep (Hardcover)
A great read. Excellent characterisations, lots of red herrings, plot twists and intrigue in a well written mystery which evokes the language, life and times and social norms of rural east coast Scotland in the 1920s. This is the third book in the Dandy Gilvers series - I've read and enjoyed them all. I can't wait for the next mystery featuring the upper class amateur detective.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
I gave up,
This review is from: Bury Her Deep (Dandy Gilver Mystery) (Paperback)
I gave up after 154 pages. No serious plot, poorly written and wordy, terribly wordy. The same facts and ideas are repeated over and over again. I feel that I lost my time and my money with this book.
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