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The story reads perfectly well as a standalone but there's no doubt that you will get more out of it if you've read at least some of the earlier books in the series. In fact, if you're planning on reading the earlier books at any point it would be best to leave this until you can read it in order or some of the surprises in earlier books will already have been revealed. You'll have more sympathy with Jim Daley too - in ''Well of the Winds'' he comes over as a grumpy old so and so. There was more to like about him in earlier books!
So, is it a good plot? It felt a little slow in the middle, with the constant switching between the present day and 1945: occasionally I wondered where the plot was going, but it is worth persevering. There's a stunning twist which makes everything clear towards the end and suddenly all was made clear. I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
For more Scottish-based crime we can recommend [[The Killing Bay by Chris Ould]].
