Gently in the Highlands
Review of the Constable Kindle eBook edition (2012) of the Cassell Crime hardcover original (1967).

The big shock in this one was that the formerly celibate (or at least single) Inspector George Gently was in a relationship, and with a former suspect no less! A foursome consisting of Gently & partner with Gently’s sister and partner head off to Scotland for a fishing vacation. They end up in the middle of murder and in the midst of an apparent training camp for an independent Scottish Nationalist movement. There was plentiful Scottish language used throughout whether in the dialogues with the locals or in the chapter epigraphs. I’ll admit that much of it went over my head except for what I could interpret due to context.

’But Knockie, I maun tell ye – the Englishman kens ye were up the braes!’
‘Man,’ McGuigan growled from his belly. ‘If ye winna hold your tongue, by gar, I’ll grip it an’ stow it down your thrapple!’

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The dust cover of the original hardcover published by Cassell Crime in 1967. Image sourced from AbeBooks.

Although the solution to the murder became quite evident before the final confrontation, it was still fun to observe Gently away from his normal hunting grounds in Norfolk.

Trivia and Link
Gently North-West was not adapted for the Inspector George Gently TV series (2007-2017). Very few of the TV episodes are based on the original books and the characters are quite different e.g. Sgt Bacchus does not appear in the books. The timeline for the TV series takes place in the 1960s only. ( )