Loch Down Abbey: Downton Abbey meets locked-room mystery in this playful, humorous novel set in 1930s Scotland

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Then Lord Inverkillen, Earl and head of the family, is found dead in mysterious circumstances. The inspector declares it an accident but Mrs MacBain, the head housekeeper, isn't so convinced."

I really enjoyed this novel from disappearing children to gifted servants and the aristocracy there is a lot going on but all flows together seamlessly into an escape from reality into a world that has almost disappeared. The hero's take a while to stand out the twists are fantastic i loved them all. The stand out moments are brilliant. If you want to escape for a while this is definitely a good book for that. Beside me was an army sergeant and his wife. She was still in her night clothes. They had just run up without getting any layer of clothing on themselves. There was a stewardess. She was trying to look after a couple of kids. She kept her arms around the children, and tried to shelter them from the spray.I suppose,’ he said, ‘you and I fought one another in the war.’‘Oh!’ I said, ‘You’re German.’‘Yes,’ he says, ‘I’m German.’ Now it was a German crew they had aboard that vessel. ‘No,’ I said, ‘I wasn’t in the armed forces. Maybe I fought you in some other way, producing food.’ And he opened his heart to me. ‘What’s wrong,’ he says. ‘We’re the same people. Why does this happen,’ he says. The Ogilvy-Sinclair family had everything: the 120-room Loch Down Abbey, an earldom, and servants galore. Most of the Inverkillens haven’t left the estate in decades and are best at doing what can only be described as nothing. With the servants increasingly out of commission because of the mysterious virus, Mrs MacBain tries to keep everything “normal” while also conducting her own clever investigation of Lord Inverkillen’s death and in doing so uncovers a whole host of long-hidden secrets, lies and betrayals that will alter the dynamics of the household forever. A family Saga, comedy, pain, love and betrayal titles plus privilege and an epademik sweeping the nation, just your average family, they have 125 rooms plus the servant parts obviously.

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On the surface this book is a cosy mystery, but I found it to be much more, and the references to the shortage of toilet rolls and flour, were a reminder of the position we were all faced with in March 2020. There were elements that demanded the reader suspended belief, some bits were perhaps a little contrived, but I thoroughly enjou]yes it.Hopefully we'll get a more regular release schedule, then, especially given the year-long gap between episodes one and two of the show's fourth season. Could we see another UK-based special also drop in 2021 following Lochdown’s July 30 arrival date? We're not that optimistic, but we doubt we'll have to wait another year to see the results of that project materialize. The cast of characters, with a clear DA inspiration, is sooooo huge that it took me quite a while to know who was who. All of them, save for a few exceptions, were pretty one-dimensional and defined by their rank in the family or the service and though that may have been the author’s intention to poke fun at the absurdities of the aristocracy and their relationship with their employees, it made me detached from all of them and not care about what was going on.