From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series…DEATH OF A TRAVELING MAN: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryLochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth’s life is going to pot. He has-horrors -been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimed traveler named Sean and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the middle of the village. Hamish smells trouble, and he’s right as … he’s right as usual. The doctor’s drugs go missing. Money vanishes. Neighbors suddenly become unneighborly. The tension only explodes after the itinerant Sean is found brutally beaten to death. Suspicion quickly falls on his girlfriend, but with nobody willing to talk, the canny Hamish faces the tough task of worming the facts out of the villagers. As he uncovers a bizarre story around the murdered traveler, Macbeth knows he must find the truth soon, before the killer gets away for good.
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Marion Chesney Beaton herself is probably even more interesting than this book! She is known primarily for the more than 100 historical romance novels she has published under her own name and under several pseudonyms: Helen Crampton, Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, and Charlotte Ward. However, this book she wrote as M.C. Beaton which is the …
Hamish Macbeth is back with a collection of friends. M. C. Beaton makes each unique with description and dialogue.
The plot begins at a leisurely pace, involving many suspects. It keeps one’s attention, however.
The book, like it’s predecessors, is set in Scotland. The author demonstrates a knowledge of the country and culture with many details.
I like Hamish McBeth, and the problems he gets into, and out of