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The Mash House

By: Alan Gillespie
Narrated by: Angus King
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Infused with love, addiction and free-pouring measures of single malt, The Mash House is perfect for fans of Fargo and The Godfather.

Cullrothes, in the Scottish Highlands, where Innes hides a terrible secret from his girlfriend, Alice, a gorgeous, cheating, lying schoolteacher. In the same village, Donald is the aggressive distillery owner, who floods the country with narcotics alongside his single malt; when his son goes missing, he becomes haunted by an anonymous American investor intent on purchasing the Cullrothes Distillery by any means necessary. Schoolgirl Jessie is trying to get the grades to escape to the mainland, while Grandpa counts the days left in his life.

This is a place where mountains are immense and the loch freezes in winter. A place with only one road in and out. With long storms and furious midges and a terrible phone signal. The police are compromised, the journalists are scum and the innocent folk of Cullrothes tangle themselves in a fermenting barrel of suspicion, malice and lies.

The Mash House uses multiple narratives to weave together the parallel lives of individuals in the village. Each fractured by the fears and uncertainty in their own minds.

©2021 Alan Gillespie (P)2021 W F Howes Crime Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Highlander Mind-bending

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Massive let down. Very disorganised. Chunks just went missing. The end was a shambles.
Some things happened but seemed to get lost never to be mentioned again.

Such a shame.

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Stories within a story, plausible characters and bylines, well done Alan Gillespie in his writing of this book, a great read.

Most entertaining.

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I appreciate this was a story but all those butters in one tiny village !!! And no conclusion to any of it really
If it wasn’t for Angus king narrating I wouldn’t have finished it

What a strange story

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I found this read to be quite disjointed, and large gaps were left in the storyline which left me a little frustrated. I felt as though the ending was rushed, and could have done with a few more chapters to 'round things off'. However, the narration by Angus King is faultless.

Enjoyed, but...

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An excellent start, a sociopathic teacher, a murderer, proxy murderer, Lady Macbeth (in the manse of course) and a crooked policeman.

It all goes so well, but then begins to lose the plot. Leaving aside details (10% of the shareholding of a distiller equal £50000, makes the remaining 90% some enormous fortune?), after promising plot details - from a hazing that leaves someone legless (literally) - and has no consequences to a rushed ending in which everything gets tied uo unsatisfactorily in the past few chapters.

What a shame!

Starts promisingly, loses the plot later on

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Thank goodness for Angus. I doubt whether I would've stuck at this story if it had been read by someone not as experienced.
I concur with what others have said, chunks of story missing, and the end just seems to stop without finishing, if that makes sense.

Strange end.

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I loved it. Very Fargo-esque and beautifully read by the ever fabulous Angus King.

Dark and Intriguing

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there where a lot of POVs so was hard to keep up sometimes. other than that it was a fantastic story

POVs

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I couldn’t work out whether this story was meant to be taken seriously or was a black comedy. Just a couple of sympathetic characters while the rest were either awful, weird or both. Angus King does his usual excellent narration but uses the same voices as for the Jack Logan series which I found a bit confusing!
It’s “different”!!

Bizarre but worth a listen

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I liked the book. Although it is not very sophisticated in binding all the characters and their actions together, I liked the way the life of different characters is shown.

Stories of different lives which come together

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