MacDeath

Pratford-upon-Avon bookshop mysteries #2

by Hannah Clemson

There's double, double toil and trouble, when Duncan Finch-Hatton, chair of Pratford-upon-Avon's Shakespeare Company is challenged for the title role in Macbeth at the Burns Night performance. Championship footballer, Findlay MacGregor, and his wife Grace, are fuelled by ambition and desperate to create a storm in the village. After auditions are abandoned at the village hall due to thunder, lightning and rain, Grace invites everyone to the MacGregor’s home, Inverness cottage, and it's not long before Duncan sees a dagger before him!

164 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 2, 2019

Reviews

[Alita · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked “Maiming of the Shrew” and I have also liked “MacDeath”. I enjoyed the characters and the fact that each has flaws as well as good points...like real people. Beatrice is perhaps especially flawed and has a habit of saying the quiet parts out loud too often. I like that and in the first book was attracted to Bea because of her tendency to open up and talk to anyone. We get to know the characters introduced in “Maiming...” better and meet newcomers Grace, Findlay and Brian. Grace is better filled out than Findlay and Brian and that is a possible flaw in the storytelling but this book moves along swiftly and is most entertaining. It seems a bit soon for Beatrice to have shed all her Americanisms although as a total Anglophile, she didn’t have so many to begin with. I am looking forward to the next installment of life in Pratford-Upon-Avon absolutely.

[Melody · Rating 4 out of 5]

What happens when a bossy superior privileged blond moves to town? Someone gets murdered. Another interesting visit to Pradford UponAvon which the villagers believe to have been the true birthplace of Shakespeare. An entertaining read.