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    Highland Laddie Gone
    Highland Laddie Gone
    Highland Laddie Gone
    Audiobook6 hours

    Highland Laddie Gone

    Written by Sharyn McCrumb

    Narrated by Davina Porter

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The Glencoe Scottish games-a summer festival where several hundred kilt-clad Americans celebrate their Scottish roots-is off to a bad start when Colin Campbell, a troublemaker from the Campbell clan, is found dead in his cottage with a skian dubh in his chest.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 6, 2010
    ISBN9781436147514
    Highland Laddie Gone
    Author

    Sharyn McCrumb

    Sharyn McCrumb is the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Ballad novels. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Southern Literature, the AWA Book of the Year, and Notable Books in both The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She was also named a Virginia Woman of History for Achievement in Literature. She lives and writes in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, fewer than one hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790.

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    • 3/5
      I picked this up at Library because I recognized author's name, but couldn't place it. Ended up skipping-ahead which usually tells me I'm get bored. And, I was. I like the Scot history--it's fantastic. And I liked reading it until I realized I couldn't really tell one character from another--usually one can tell who is talking because you learn the rhythm of their speech pattern but in "Highland Laddie Gone", they all had the same rhythm--even the newly arrived in America from Scotland. The plot idea was goo and the location great, but the necessity to get it over won out and I read the last chapter right after chapter 6. I was still drawn to reading bits here and there since the language was enticing, just not enough to read cover to cover. Perhaps I'll try another of Ms. McCrumb's novels and also see if I can place why her name is familiar.
    • 5/5
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    • 3/5
      I picked this up at Library because I recognized author's name, but couldn't place it. Ended up skipping-ahead which usually tells me I'm get bored. And, I was. I like the Scot history--it's fantastic. And I liked reading it until I realized I couldn't really tell one character from another--usually one can tell who is talking because you learn the rhythm of their speech pattern but in "Highland Laddie Gone", they all had the same rhythm--even the newly arrived in America from Scotland. The plot idea was goo and the location great, but the necessity to get it over won out and I read the last chapter right after chapter 6. I was still drawn to reading bits here and there since the language was enticing, just not enough to read cover to cover. Perhaps I'll try another of Ms. McCrumb's novels and also see if I can place why her name is familiar.
    • 2/5
      A pleasant read, but a disappointing mystery. It relies on someone killing to keep a secret that could not plausibly have survived even this far, and one certainly doomed by its repetition to hundreds of interested buffs.
    • 3/5
      Elizabeth MacPherson, forensic anthropology grad student and amateur sleuth, continues her mystery-solving adventures among the loony subcultures of the American South. The real attraction of the story is McCrumb's depiction of heritage-mad Scots-Americans who go to extraordinary lengths to "authentically" recreate a mostly imaginary past. It's played mostly for laughs (and they are numerous) but you can see her beginning to play with themes that she'll give serious attention in her more substantial "Ballad Novels." The rest of the book is mostly perfunctory: The mystery is sketchy, the plot has too many loose ends, and few of the characters (Elizabeth included) escape from two-dimensionality for very long. You can see flashes of the writer McCrumb would later become, however, in the deftly sketched character of the sheriff and in a bravura scene where an old man flashes back to his service as a WWII bomber crew member.
    • 2/5
      I don't think I even finished this one. The tape (I listen to audio) was SOOOOO bad I couldn't even finish it. Didn't break my heart though.
    • 3/5
      Murder at the annual Glencoe Mountain highland games, in the Appalachians. Elizabeth McPherson investigates. The highland-games setting provides quite a bit of humour, but the mystery is not that exciting, and I find MacPherson irritating. While these mysteries have some funny moments, I don't like them that much. They are okay, but they don't compel me to re-read.