Review: Scot & Soda

Scot & Soda by Catriona McPherson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

It's Halloween and Lexy Campbell has gone all out with the spooky decor and food as she entertains the inhabitants of the Last Ditch Motel on her houseboat. Unfortunately, when she pulls up the rope which is attached to the 72 bottles of beer she has cooling in the water they come attached to a dead body dressed in a Tam O'Shanter and orange wig (a Jimmy wig as we would say).

The Cuento police don't seem to be taking Lexy seriously, they ignore her comment that there was a large signet ring on the body's finger which seems to have gone missing, so Lexy, Todd and Kathi decide to do some detecting of their own.

There seem to have been a series of incidents on Halloween linked to the events in the Robert Burns poem Tam O'Shanter and all the evidence points to the victim being a former resident Thomas O. Shatner who was in town to attend a fiftieth high school reunion. But who could have murdered him? Was it some sort of retaliation for being gay? Could it be the former senior class president and captain of the football team? Was it one of a quartet of girls that used to hang around with the captain of the football team? Is it connected to the mysterious disappearance of one of those girls after the graduation party?

There are red herrings galore and, I'm afraid, it maybe got a bit too clever for itself partway through and like another reviewer I was left a bit confused at the end. Still enjoyable but a little confusing.

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