from Aspenhugger

"The weather turns blustery the day Mr. and Mrs. Thomas move into the sleepy Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh, and other changes soon follow. Unemployed and English, the Thomases already have two strikes again them: The villagers have never liked newcomers. Only lonely Angela Brodie, the do...

from readingwithtea

Summary: Hamish Macbeth is quite pleased with the quiet life of a parochial policeman... until a pushy housewife arrives from London and starts reforming the town. No wonder she turns up dead - but who did it? This meets the definition of "cosy crime" exactly for me. A pleasant, polite, short (19...

from Jiraiya

Having seen the title of the book of today, it came to me that for once we'll be having a truly nice person as the deceased. I anticipated, and I sat back, began to read, and wondered how this change would be handled. But, maybe the author just wants to people her books with victims that are only...

from kp9949

Hamish MacBeth is at it again. A new bed-and-breakfast has opened in town but not all is what it seems. Trixie Thomas is the perfect wife (and hostess of the new inn) but is she really perfect. She has a knack for taking over and involving herself in the lives of the townspeople of Lochdub not ne...

from alanteder

Macbeth vs. the Incomers Review of the Blackstone Audio Inc. audiobook edition (2013) of the St. Martin's Press hardcover original (1989) 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 books b...