Nine Ten Begin Again: a Grasshopper Lawns affair - Paperback

by Ej Lamprey (Author)

This is the fifth whodunit set in the unorthodox Scottish retirement village in the lovely countryside surrounding Edinburgh. Regular readers will be unsurprised that there are murky goings-on in the village, but for once they're not getting the attention they deserve. The sharp-eyed reader will have noticed this book is called a Grasshopper Lawns affair, not the usual whodunit, and although it is as much a whodunit as the earlier four, there's, well, a distraction. A few. There's progress on Edge's potential TV series. Donald sets up a visit to his slightly dubious social club (which, it turns out, sails nearer than he had ever intended to the extremely dodgy world of leather fetishism and BDSM), and Vivian upsets the apple-cart by nearly dying of pneumonia. One way and another, the four friends are definitely distracted, and even wondering whether they are so used to intrigue that they are making mountains out of molehills. Like the others in the series, it is a novella and, despite the rambling tone, moves along fairly briskly. Red herrings happen. It is both the darkest, and the most light-hearted, book in the series so far. Begin Again, indeed.