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 The Stolen Voice - Pat McIntosh
Newest Review: ... he's part of the Cunningham clan who have been repressed by Scottish politics over the last twenty years but with a change of ... more  ... king they are returning to their previous position.
Gil is in some ways a modern 21st century living in the 15th, he's very much a renaissance man loving fine wine, books, learning and the concept of enlightenment. Gils wife Alys is a very modern style girl, she can READ, think and reason, she gives Gil a counterpoint to his more staid views on the Scottish poor.
Scotland in 1496
Scotland is an independent country but there are tensions between the lowlands and the highlands, these tensions will come to a ...more |
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The Stolen Voice - Pat McIntosh: An excellent medieval mystery with loads ofscottish taint (602 words)
by - written on 21/11/09 (Very useful, 15 readings)
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The Stolen Voice is the fifth book written by Pat McIntosh about a lawyer called Gil Cunnigham set in Glasgow towards the end of the fifteenth century. Gil is a young man with a young beautiful French wife and a telent for solving murders in and around Glasgow. As with all the previous novels we get a tiny section describing how Gil felt about the murder in hindsight but its soon forgotten as the book goes on, with each murder and each book we are given more details about Gil and how he's progressing. Gil is a young man as I said, he started out as a priest but met the daughter of the French master mason whose building Glasgow cathedral. Gil throws ... Read the complete review
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