This book says on the cover “an Oz Blackstone mystery” – though it’s the first one of Jardine’s novels featuring him as an amateur sleuth I have read. Poisoned Cherries [ISBN 0 7553 3425 6] is much more fun than his Skinner novels sank into (such complicated personal histories) though Oz Blackstone the film star is a tongue in the cheek as it gets and mixes with a very rarified kind of folk– but perhaps Edinburgh is like that. It has a good plot, however stretched, good atmospheric stuff set in Edinburgh and a straightforward narrative.
This book says on the cover “an Oz Blackstone mystery” – though it’s the first one of Jardine’s novels featuring him as an amateur sleuth I have read. Poisoned Cherries [ISBN 0 7553 3425 6] is much more fun than his Skinner novels sank into (such complicated personal histories) though Oz Blackstone the film star is a tongue in the cheek as it gets and mixes with a very rarified kind of folk– but perhaps Edinburgh is like that. It has a good plot, however stretched, good atmospheric stuff set in Edinburgh and a straightforward narrative.
Oz Blackstone has a leading part in a movie set in Edinburgh – and it brings him near his ex-fling Susie, rich businesswoman – just happens to be having his child. Looks good until another ex, Alison, turns up asking him for a favour – can he get one of his co-stars to help support a marketing project. But then Alison’s partner gets murdered and Alison is in the frame for his murder. Oz has to track around to find the rather convoluted strings tying the movie to the happenings.
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