This was a very clever book: a murder mystery where a flock of Irish sheep solve the mystery of their shepherd's murder. All the sheep have different personalities and levels of intelligence. They use their senses of smell to great effect and are often bewildered by human behavior in a sweet way. Somehow though it stays away from being too cute. Of course perhaps this was because I refused to look any deeper than the surface of the book. I'm sure beneath the surface the author, Leonie Swann, was trying to make all sort of allusions and connections to human behavior. Our tendency to move in flocks, to be herded along willy-nilly without protest because that's just how it's done, I chose to ignore. So I just read a rather clever story of some woolly characters solving a mystery. BAAAAAA philosophical baaaallusions!!!!!
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