Murder at the Wild Haggis Bookshop by Jackie BaldwinMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
A caveat on this review: I have been told that the copy of the book I read had received no editing or proofreading. I do hope that this is the case, and that the published version does not contain so many sentences of over 30 words without any punctuation whatsoever (one sentence has more than 50 words and no punctuation). For readers like me, this makes the text very difficult to process. A friend of mine, who is a teacher and has dyslexia, would struggle to read it at all. Hopefully, this problem, as well as the plethora of incorrect words, will have been fixed by the time you read it.
Caveat over...
Apart from the above, I did really like the characters. I don't usually manage to figure out "who dunnit", but I did in this one. In some ways it was quite nice to have worked out who the culprit was. I would certainly give another book by this author a go, but if the grammar and punctuation proved to be as bad as in this book, I think it might be the last.
