When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, everyone in town is delighted... except
... Headbutted by a horse when protesting against the local Devon hunt, it is safe to say Nina Cattermole had a rather unusual death.
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The very first Hamish Macbeth crime mystery, from internationally bestselling author M.C. Beaton
When society widow
A tart with a heart of stone...
Maggie Baird is neither kind or generous, but she is very, very rich. So when her
When Fergus Macleod, Lochdubh's abusive, drunk dustman is put in charge of the local recycling centre & is dubbed the ' Environment Officer', Hamish Macbeth smells trouble. Sure enough, Fergus, imbued with his new powers, becomes a bullying tyrant & when his body is found stuffed in a recycling bin, no one is sorry
- including his long-suffering family. But Macbeth is surprised to find that many of the despicable dustman's victims refuse to talk
- & when violence strikes again, the lanky lawman must quickly unearth the culprit among a litter of suspects... before the killer makes a clean getaway!