Review: A Scottish murder mystery fairy tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2014
The Exiled starts as a chilling mystery: little girls vanish without a trace and the crime scene is covered with the mutilated remains of a black swan. Police detective John and his reporter brother Alan's attempts to solve the case lead them to another world and a criminal who is not quite human anymore.William Meikle has really gone out of the box here with this genre bending thriller. My only wish for this was that it was a bit more surreal and dreamlike. Once the twist is established half way through it seemed very linear in a "let's go get the bad guy" kind of way. That is down to personal taste however. Those looking for an original dark fairy tale have a winner here. Recommended, 4 stars.