Hue and Cry by Shirley McKay

A young lawyer, Hew Cullan, returns from France to his native St Andrews and walks right into a double murder with his old friend as chief suspect. This is just the kind of historical mystery that is meat and drink to me so why did I put it aside after the first few chapters? I do not know is the answer. It just did not work for me. Well, that's show business folks!