{"id":13296,"date":"2020-01-27T18:54:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T23:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13296"},"modified":"2020-01-27T18:54:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T23:54:16","slug":"deadly-still-by-keith-moray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13296","title":{"rendered":"‘Deadly Still,’ by Keith Moray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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West Uist,<\/strong> the fictional Hebrides island that provides the setting for Keith Moray\u2019s Torquil McKinnon mysteries, suffers from Midsommer Syndrome. It\u2019s a remote and bucolic place, filled with a population divided among the inoffensive and the eccentric, and yet it keeps throwing up murders. The latest involves the age-old tradition of illegal whisky distillation on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Deadly Still<\/a><\/em> begins, Police Sergeant Morag Driscoll is off for a morning jog when she discovers a local teenager wandering blind in the heather. She and two friends had been celebrating completing their final tests with peatreek <\/em>(the Scottish equivalent of moonshine) in an abandoned World War II bunker. Now she can\u2019t see, one of her friends is unresponsive, and the other has disappeared entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At about the same time, a local businessman is found dead.\nIt looks like the result of a drunken fall, but laboratory analysis will show\nthat he\u2019s been imbibing the bad peatreek as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except that the level of methyl alcohol in this stuff is way\nhigher than is probable in ordinary home distilling. Someone has a grudge and an\nagenda, and Inspector Torquil McKinnon (who already had his hands full with his\nwedding plans) will need to stop that person before anyone else dies. And what\nhappened to the missing girl?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always come back to the Torquil McKinnon books with pleasure. I like the setting, I like the characters. I don\u2019t rank Deadly Still <\/em>as the best in the series \u2013 I had trouble keeping the characters straight in this one, but maybe that\u2019s just because I\u2019m getting old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended, like the whole series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

West Uist, the fictional Hebrides island that provides the setting for Keith Moray\u2019s Torquil McKinnon mysteries, suffers from Midsommer Syndrome. It\u2019s a remote and bucolic place, filled with a population divided among the inoffensive and the eccentric, and yet it keeps throwing up murders. The latest involves the age-old tradition of illegal whisky distillation on … Continue reading ‘Deadly Still,’ by Keith Moray<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[705,1557,3182],"class_list":["post-13296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-deadly-still","tag-keith-moray","tag-torquil-mckinnon"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}