Did one of them cheat? With Caroline? Why did Kellen leave? How is she still friends with Caroline? Who, by the way, vanished for long stretches of the book. We never learned the nature of Kellen’s breakup with Bridget. Think Charlie’s Angels without Charlie and a lot more B&E.īut in the end, it was kind of infuriating. But the intrepid threesome of Kellen, Lee, and Janine was a lot of fun. Unfortunately we never get the backstory on what happened between them, or what the deal was with another character in law enforcement. This is set in Scotland, the main character is a psychiatrist, who doesn’t seem to need to see patients. This is first of a series, and good enough to get the rest. I often had to go back and say, no she didn’t really say that. I really like Kellen’s first-person voice, although the habit she has of responding to dialogue with a thought before a new line for the actual response is confusing. Her Boudica books look especially interesting.OK, Goodreads, that's like the worst blurb in the world. The characters just happened to know exactly the right person to solve every problem they encountered and some of the plot points were a bit far fetched for me (the scene with guard dogs had me rolling my eyes the most!).ĭespite these criticisms I found Hen’s Teeth very entertaining and I’m keen to try Manda Scott’s other books. My only complaint is that many aspects of the plot were far too convenient. I often complain that science isn’t handled very well in fiction, but this book is one of the few that includes it in an intelligent way, without scaring the average reader. I also liked the way that the central characters were gay, but the relationships were portrayed so naturally that the reader barely notices.Īs a former vet Manda Scott does a fantastic job with the science in this book. The central characters were well formed and I loved the way we were given details of their back story. I found this book very engaging and flew through it in just two days. The only clue they have to go on is the mysterious theft of the hens… One of the farm’s owners is discovered to have died from a heart attack, but because her brother died in the same way, just two weeks earlier, her friends are convinced that both deaths are suspicious and they set out to discover who killed them.
Hen’s Teeth is a thriller set on a farm near Glasgow. Five words from the blurb: mysteriously, dead, hens, scientists, Glaswegian
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