Books Detective Novels Detective Chief Inspector Blair seizes the perfect opportunity to try to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth when local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure... So Blair suggests that Cyril Sessions, a keen young police officer, goes to visit the town of Lochdubh to monitor exactly what Hamish does every day. But Hamish is fully prepared to ensure young Cyril returns back with a report under his arm. Before that happens, Cyril is found dead & Hamish has now become the prime suspect of his murder... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781472124654 • Author: M C Beaton • Publisher: Constable • Format: Paperback • Pages: 266 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2 cm ...

Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief Inspector Chen, a poet with a sound instinct for self-preservation, knows the city like few others. When the body of a prominent Communist Party member is found, Chen is told to keep the party authorities informed about every lead. Also, he must keep the young woman's murder out of the papers at all costs. When his investigation leads him to the decadent offspring of high-ranking officials, he finds himself instantly removed from the case & reassigned to another area. Chen has a choice: bend to the party's wishes & sacrifice his morals, or continue his investigation & risk dismissal from his job & from the party. Or worse.. . ...

Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible & fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family. In the waters that rush over him he sees those lives stripped of their surface realities, & finds a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking. ...

The " Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama & classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts & an equal mix of boy & girl parts. This modern tragedy concerns a salesman who, at the end of his life, is forced to face its futility & failure. ...

Author Patricia Martyn-Broyd, now in her seventies, has retired to the Highlands. She hasn't written a word in years & her books are out of print. But now a television company is about to film her last mystery, featuring the aristocratic Scottish detective Lady Harriet Vare. The snobbish Miss Martyn-Broyd doesn't care to mix with the locals but she can't help but share her excitement with local policeman Hamish Macbeth. Then, horrors! She finds that the screenwriter is known for his violent & scurrilous scripts & that Lady Harriet is to be portrayed as a pot-smoking hippy, played by the trollop Penelope Gates. When a nightmarish sequence of events results in murder, Miss Martyn-Broyd turns to her one friend in Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth, to help her. ...

All Sergeant Hamish Macbeth ever wants is a quiet life in the tranquil surroundings of Lochdubh, his home village in the Scottish Highlands. Although the area he polices is vast, he’s happiest when he’s working alone, yet the police authorities insist he has an assistant. In the past, they have supplied a variety of problematic misfits, but they surpass themselves with their latest effort – an American named James Bl&. Having met Bland previously, when he was left in no doubt that the American led a life coloured by secrets & skulduggery, Hamish isn’t surprised when he discovers the real motive behind Bland’s police secondment involves him in helping track down a spy ring, some members of which have met grisly ends. That investigation tears Hamish away from Lochdubh at a time when the village is suffering a disturbing spate of increasingly violent burglaries. The identity of the burglar, however, is a perplexing mystery. All of that blows Hamish’s quiet life out the window & p... ...

Trouble is afoot in the remote Scottish fishing village of Stoyre, where the inhabitants are acting kind of... fishy.



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Trouble is afoot in the remote Scottish fishing village of Stoyre, where the inhabitants are acting kind of... fishy. On a routine visit, Hamish Macbeth finds the pub empty, the church unexpectedly full, & the very air permeated with fear. Then an explosion levels a holiday cottage which the locals call 'an act of God'. Hamish has another theory, one that will make the national news. With the help of sharp-eyed journalist Elspeth Grant & Lugs (his dog) he begins to winkle out the truth. But Hamish's best laid plans soon go awry when an old friend dies, a scandalous rumour erupts, & someone close to his heart may be lost forever. ...

Are drugs responsible for a sighting of Nessies long lost relative?

Recovering addict Tommy Jarret has just rented a chalet

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Recovering addict Tommy Jarret has rented a chalet to check out reports of a sea monster near the village of Drim. Then he turns up dead, apparently from a drug overdose, & constable Hamish Macbeth finds the lad's demise particularly fishy. Deciding to go undercover, Hamish infiltrates the local drug dealing trade. But his plans looks doomed when he's teamed up with a tough Glaswegian detective inspector named Olivia Chater, aka Concrete Knickers. For the Lochdubh lawman it would be equally dangerous to flounder...or fall in love. Praise for the Hamish Macbeth series:' An enchanting series... M C Beaton has a foolproof plot for the village mystery. ' New York Times Book Review` Readers will enjoy the quirks & unique qualities of the cast... Beaton catches the beauty of the area's natural geography & succinctly describes its distinct flavour.' Library Journal ...