A review by sadie_slater
The Rough Collier by Pat McIntosh

4.0

The Rough Collier is the fifth of Pat McIntosh's mysteries set in fifteenth-century Scotland. In this one, Gil Cunningham and his wife Alys are staying at his mother's house in the Lanarkshire countryside when a body is discovered buried in a peat-bog, sparking an accusation of witchcraft against a local woman and leading Gil to begin an investigation into the identity of the corpse and the whereabouts of another man who has been missing for five weeks. I really like Gil and Alys and enjoyed seeing how their relationship has developed after five months of marriage, and the mystery was entertaining enough even if I had spotted the murderer by the end of chapter 2 and found Gil and Alys's continuing failure to suspect them somewhat frustrating.