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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In the Highlands of 1950s Scotland, a boy is found dead in a canal lock. Two members of the local newspaper staff set out to investigate the crime. Together, these very different Scots harbor deep and troubling secrets underneath their polished and respectable veneers.
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesn't have much to offer, other than a place of rare beauty called Buchan's Wood, which was bequeathed to the town. The savvy local tourist director renames the woods "The Fairy Glen," and has brochures printed with a beautiful photograph...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 26
Language
English
Description
The villagers in the north of Scotland rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray. Pete is always able to find work in the highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager's fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn't believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder....
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English
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"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder, he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie. This time, though, she is telling the truth. Her body is found in her home...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lady Jane Winters, society widow and gossip, is found dead at an angling school in Scotland. Who wouldn't want her shrills silenced? Local policeman Hamish Macbeth is suspicious. With the inspiring aid of Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Hamish pursues the case.
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 34
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Hamish's new constable, Dorothy McIver, may be the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. Completely bewitched by her sparkling blue eyes, Hamish spends the summer traveling with her up and down Sutherland until finally, he can take it no longer. He gets down on one knee beside the Land Rover and begs her to marry him-and to his amazement and delight, she says yes. But just as the town of Lochdubh gets ready to celebrate, Hamish finds himself with a...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 9
Language
English
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"It's springtime in the Highlands but storms are brewing for Hamish Macbeth. His life is going to pot. He has - horrors! - been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the middle of the village. Hamish smells trouble and as usual he's right. The doctor's drugs have gone missing. Money vanishes. And neighbours suddenly become unneighbourly. Nobody wants to...
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English
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In the dark, wintry highlands of Lochdubh, Scotland, where the local Calvinist element resists the secular trimmings of Christmas, the spirit of old Saint Nick is about as welcome as a flat tire on a deserted road. Nor is crime taking a holiday, as Constable Hamish Macbeth soon finds himself protecting an unhappy girl, unlocking the secrets of a frightened old woman, and retrieving some stolen holiday goods. Now the lanky lawman must use all his Highland...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Language
English
Description
Highlands constable Hamish Macbeth's content life is disrupted by the murder of a visiting artist, the return of his old girlfriend, and a ruthless killer stalking the local citizens.
11) Death of a nurse
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English
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"M. C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth series continues with a new mystery featuring Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman. James Harrison has recently moved to a restored hunting lodge in Sutherland with his gorgeous private nurse Gloria Dainty. When Hamish visits Mr. Harrison to welcome him to the neighborhood, the old man treats him very rudely. Gloria apologizes for her employer's behavior, and Hamish takes...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 33
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul had moved to a house in Cnothan, a sour village on Hamish's beat. He attended church in Lochdubh. He told the minister, Mr. Wellington, that his sermons were boring. He told tweedy Mrs. Wellington that she was too fat and in these days of increasing obesity it was her duty to show a good example. Angela Brody was told her detective...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 25
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, may actually marry at last. The entire village of Lochdubh adores Macbeth's bride-to-be. Josie McSween is Hamish's new con
14) Death of a spy
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 36
Language
English
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Description
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with - crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals, as well as those in the wider area of his territory in Sutherland, will react to his new assistant officer. The officer is none other than the enigmatic American James Bland who is on an exchange scheme from his home city...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 32
A Hamish MacBeth mystery volume 32
Hamish Macbeth mystery) volume 32
A Hamish MacBeth mystery volume 32
Hamish Macbeth mystery) volume 32
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Death of a Ghost. When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes he eerie noises and lights reported by the villagers are just local teenagers going there to smoke pot or, worse, inject themselves with drugs. Still, Hamish decides that he and his policeman, Charlie "Clumsy" Carson, will spend the night at the ruined castle to get to the bottom of the rumors once and for all. There's no sign of any ghost......
16) Death of a witch
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English
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Police constable Hamish Macbeth races to clear his name and find a killer after a supposed witch, who sold potions to men suffering from sexual dysfunction and whose practices Hamish openly disagreed with, is found dead.
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 23
Language
English
Description
Gentle by name, gentle by nature. Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle--everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is. Hamish thinks the gentle lady is sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh think he is overly cra
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 35
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When an interferring resident goes missing, Seargeant Hamish Macbeth uncovers lies, intrigue, and scandal during his investigation and quickly finds himself on the trail of a killer.
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