from lahochstetler

Christmas finds Hamish at a loose end. When he receives an invitation to a health farm on a rural island he jumps on it. The other guests include Heather Todd, a snob who fancies herself the toast of Glasgow society. She proceeds to annoy everyone at the resort. When she turns up dead no one seem...

from kp9949

I always enjoy the Hamish stories. They are amusing and delightful. Although a "cozy" mystery, it always suits me when I don't feel like reading a deeper serious mystery.

from alanteder

Macbeth and the Health Farm Review of the Blackstone Audio Inc. audiobook edition (2013) of the St. Martin's Press hardcover original (1991) 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 book...

from Aspenhugger

"It's Christmastime, and Police Constable Hamish Macbeth is suffering from a nasty bout of the flu. He would like to be taken care of, particularly by an attractive woman, and preferably by his former love, Priscilla Halburton-Smythe. But Priscilla--who has begun running a hotel in her family's s...

from madamejeanie

Hamish has a bad cold and no one to cater to him. His old flame Priscilla drops by with a friend named Jane Wetherby who thinks that someone is trying to kill her. So, Hamish accepts Jane's invitation to spend the holidays at her health farm on the Scottish island of Eileencraig, and try to figur...