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SPOILERS. This was initially my favorite of the Shetland books so far. Her books are often psychologically pretty twisty, and the fact that it’s so close to home for a main character made it even more so.
The problem with the book is that it starts with a murder in which someone is shotgunned in the dark on a croft. Initially it seems like an accident because one of the neighbors was out shooting rabbits with a shotgun, but Perez is suspicious, and he eventually concludes it’s murder, mentally wandering from suspect to suspect as he tries to figure out who did it.
The problem with this is he never asks the first guy if he heard a shotgun blast; and the question is, how the hell could two people be out with shotguns, on the same croft, and the first one not hear the other one shoot. It’s just dumb. You either have to believe it was indeed an accident, or you have conclude that the first guy is the one who did it. And of course, that’s the answer. So rather than a dog that didn’t bark, it’s the shotgun that didn’t shoot. So annoying.
The problem with the book is that it starts with a murder in which someone is shotgunned in the dark on a croft. Initially it seems like an accident because one of the neighbors was out shooting rabbits with a shotgun, but Perez is suspicious, and he eventually concludes it’s murder, mentally wandering from suspect to suspect as he tries to figure out who did it.
The problem with this is he never asks the first guy if he heard a shotgun blast; and the question is, how the hell could two people be out with shotguns, on the same croft, and the first one not hear the other one shoot. It’s just dumb. You either have to believe it was indeed an accident, or you have conclude that the first guy is the one who did it. And of course, that’s the answer. So rather than a dog that didn’t bark, it’s the shotgun that didn’t shoot. So annoying.