A Hamish Macbeth Mystery: Death of a Gossip (Series #1) (Paperback)

from delphimo

A cozy mystery set in the Highlands of Scotland, what a treat. M C Beaton introduces her red haired, lazy local policeman, Hamish MacBeth. A husband and wife team operate a fishing school in the Highlands, but this year the catch proves hard to swallow as one of the guests is murdered. I adore Ha...

from ClicksClan

Enjoyed this. A quick little read and quite funny too. Liked the first chapter of the next book too. Didn't really give you all the evidence you needed to solve the crime yourself but then again Hamish Macbeth largely solved it with guesswork. Hamish kind of reminded me of a family member. Didn't...

from wizardsheart

I like the Agatha Raisin books a lot. This one is a fun and fast read. My only real problem is that it is told in the point of view of one of the tourists...not Hamish MacBeth. And that tourist was so irritating I wanted to rip her head off. If it had been told in a different pov, I probably woul...

from alanteder

Macbeth and the Gossip Columnist Review of the Blackstone Audio Inc. audiobook edition (2016) of the St. Martin's Press hardcover original (1985) After discovering M.C. Beaton's Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery series due to the Estonia cameo in "Death of Yesterday", I started to seek out the earlier...

from jtck121166

I only dimly remember the name Hamish Macbeth from TV listings in the 90s, and I came to this with no preconceptions. I was happy to find myself reading the equivalent of a perfect Sunday night TV murder mystery: cosy, comfortable, traditional, just right! This is an affectionate, if somewhat ton...