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Death of a Village [Hamish Macbeth Series Book 19] [Secure eReader (recommended)]
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  During the eerie half-light of a far north summer night, a crime spree - from scams to burglary--strikes the Highlands. Suddenly Hamish Macbeth, never an ambitious man, has more police work than he desires. After all, Macbeth's preferred activity is watching the waves dance on the loch. Yet as he deftly investigates the summer's high crimes and misdemeanors, he attracts the attention of his superiors. They feel a promotion and transfer will give him a larger playing field than Lochdubh. That's t... more info>>
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Death of a Charming Man [Hamish Macbeth Mystery #10] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
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Now that Priscilla Halburton-Smythe has agreed to marry him, Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth can't imagine a more perfect life. There's not much crime in his remote Scottish village of Lochdubh, nothing much at all to do but fish, drink coffee, and slouch around. And now to spend time with lovely Priscilla. But his days aren't as tranquil as his dreams. For one thing, Priscilla's renovation schemes are driving him out of his cottage. Not to mention her ambitious plans for his career as a policema... more info>> 2001
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A Highland Christmas [Hamish Macbeth Mystery #16] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
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Police Constable Hamish Macbeth was fighting his own Christmas blues. It was the week before Christmas and bitter cold weather held the countryside in its iron grip around the Highlands of Scotland and the village of Lochdubh. He missed his family, who were vacationing in Florida. Hamish's family were unusual in the Highlands because they had always celebrated Christmas with a turkey, tree, lights, and presents. In many parts of the Highlands the old spirit of John Knox still lingered, blasting ... more info>> 2001
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Death of a Poison Pen [Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series Book 20] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
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Poison pen letters lead to murder in this new Hamish Macbeth mystery from M.C.Beaton. When the townspeople of Lochdubh begin receiving poison pen letters, no one takes them very seriously, even if they are full of wild accusations. But Hamish fears that they might lead to something deadly. His instincts prove correct when the town's postmistress is found hanging from a rope with a poison pen letter at her feet. Though it appears to be a suicide, Hamish suspects something more sinister. Attemptin... more info>>
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Death of a Macho Man [Hamish Macbeth Mystery #12] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by M. C. Beaton
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Everyone in the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh called Randy Duggan the Macho Man. Duggan went around the village and bragged about everything he had done and said he once was a wrestler in America and an explorer in the Middle East. At first his outrageous stories drew an admiring crowd at the local pub, but soon his bullying ways led to anger and violence. When the local constable, Hamish Macbeth, tries to break up a fight, Duggan challenges him to a public fistfight. But on the day of ... more info>> 2001
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Death of a Scriptwriter [Hamish Macbeth Mystery #14] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
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Patricia Martyn-Broyd, now in her seventies, has retired to the Scottish Highlands. She hasn't written a word in years and her books are out of print. Now a television production company is about to film her last detective story, The Case of the Rising Tide, featuring the aristocratic Scottish detective Lady Harriet Vare. Even better, a London publisher is bringing the book back to print. Even though the class-conscious Miss Martyn-Broyd doesn't care to mix with the locals, she can't help but sh... more info>> 2001
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Death of a Dentist [Hamish Macbeth Mystery #13] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
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The small Highlands village of Lochdubh did not boast a dentist and anyone with a toothache had to travel to Mr. Frederick Gilchrist's dental surgery in the town of Braikie, some 20 miles away. Gilchrist was inexpensive and the average highlander still preferred to save money and have the offending tooth pulled rather than saved. Hamish Macbeth sided with the more modern, painless procedures practiced by dentists in Inverness. But one day, he awoke with a blinding toothache and decided to try Gi... more info>> 2001
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Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham [Agatha Raisin Series Book 8] [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by M. C. Beaton
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After a home dye job ruins her hair, Agatha Raisin turns to a new hairdresser. Mr. John is skilled at repairing her coiffure--and her heart. But he isn't all he appears to be. Some former clients seem to be afraid of him. Could he be a blackmailer? When a murderer strikes, Agatha must discover the truth, and the killer's identity--before it's too late. 2000
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Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came [Agatha Raisin Series Book 12] [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by M. C. Beaton
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Marital bliss was short-lived for Agatha Raisin. Her marriage to James Lacey was a disaster from the beginning, and in the end, he left her--not for another woman, but for God. After having been miraculously cured of a brain tumor, James has decided to join a monastery in France. Agatha can usually depend on her old friend, Sir Charles Fraith, to be there when times are tough, but even Charles has abandoned her, dashing off to Paris to marry a young French tart. Miserable and alone, Agatha hops ... more info>> 2002
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Death of a Nag [Hamish Macbeth Mystery #11] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by M. C. Beaton
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More than ever, Constable Hamish Macbeth needs a change. His engagement to the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe has ended. Priscilla, the daughter of a local hotelier, not only has left his life, she's left the village for a long visit to some old friends in Gloucestershire. Everyone blames Macbeth for the broken engagement and constantly express their disapproval. Hamish needs to get away from all this turmoil. So when he reads about a cheap bed and breakfast package at Skay on the coast near ... more info>> 2001
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Death of a Dustman [Hamish Macbeth Mystery #17] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by M. C. Beaton
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They are still called dustmen in Britain. Not garbage collectors or sanitation engineers, but dustmen. Lochdubh's (pronounced Lochdoo) dustman, Fergus Wilson, lives in a small, run-down cottage with his wife, Martha, and four children. He's a sour little man given to domestic violence and drinking, and getting by with a one-day work week. No one pays him much attention until Mrs. Freda Fleming, a bullying environmentalist, is elected to Strathbane Council. A politically ambitious woman, Mrs. Fle... more info>> 2001
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Death of a Bore [Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series Book 21] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
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Minor writer John Heppel has a problem--he's by all accounts a consummate bore. When he's found dead in his cottage, there are plenty of suspects. But surely boredom shouldn't be cause for murder, or so thinks local bobby and sleuth Hamish Macbeth, whose investigation of Heppel's soap opera script uncovers much more than melodrama. Popular reader and actor Graeme Malcolm makes this intricate whodunit set in Beaton's beloved Scottish village a memorable audio experience. This is the newest title ... more info>>
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A Spoonful of Poison [Agatha Raisin Mystery Series Book 19] [Secure Mobipocket]
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 Cranky but lovable sleuth Agatha Raisin's detective agency has become so successful that she wants nothing more than to take quality time for rest and relaxation. But as soon as she begins closing the agency on weekends, she remembers that when she has plenty of quality time, she doesn't know what to do with it. So it doesn't take much for the vicar of a nearby village to persuade her to help publicize the church fete--especially when the fair's organizer, George Selby, turns out to be a gorgeou... more info>>
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Death of an Addict [Hamish Macbeth Mystery #15] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
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Tommy Jarret is a young former heroin addict from Strathbane. Happy about his drug-free future, he had rented a chalet and was writing a book about recovery. Hamish Macbeth is surprised to hear of his sudden death from an overdose because Tommy had seemed so happy and his life had even taken a spiritual bent after he had joined a local New Age group, the Church of the Rising Sun. Macbeth pokes around and becomes suspicious of the church. Posing as homeless and depressed, he joins the church and ... more info>> 2001
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Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam [Agatha Raisin Mystery Series Book 10] [Secure eReader (recommended)]
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When a fortune teller informs Agatha Raisin her destiny--and true love
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start happening. There are stories circulating about fairies. When a
prominent village resident is found murdered, suspicion falls on Agatha.
Having heard enough about fairies, she seeks a human killer. Will she
catch her crook--and a husband? 2000
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Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell [Agatha Raisin Series Book 11] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
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Though Agatha Raisin only recently wed James Lacey, the newlyweds are
living in separate cottages, accusing each other of infidelity. After a
fight in the local pub, James vanishes. Then his suspected mistress,
Melissa, is murdered. In Melissa's past are two ex-husbands and some
dubious relations with bikers. Why is Agatha Raisin the prime suspect? 2001
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Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist [Agatha Raisin Series Book 6] [Secure eReader (recommended)]
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Reviewers and readers alike can't get enough of the feisty, fabulous
Agatha Raisin. Now Agatha is traveling in the north of Cyprus, only to
contend with her estranged fiancé, an egregious group of terrible
tourists, and a string of murders as scorching as the Greek sun. 1999
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Death of a Maid [Hamish MacBeth Mystery Series Book 23] [Secure Mobipocket]
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 Armed with a bucket and mop, Mrs. Gillespie brings misery into the quiet life of Hamish Macbeth when he wins her maid services in a church raffle. He fears she's more likely to snoop than clean, since rumor has it that she damages more items than she dusts. Yet Macbeth has more upsetting issues to ponder--his former girlfriend, reporter Elspeth Grant, is back in the village for a holiday with her new boyfriend. Then he gets notice that a TV crew plans a documentary on him. Its airing is sure to ... more info>>
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Death of a Gentle Lady [Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series Book 24] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
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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 quite sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh think he is overly cranky. Perhaps it's time for him to get married, they say. But who has time for marriage when there's a murder to be solved? When Mrs. Gentle dies under mysterious circumstances, the town is shocked and outraged. Chief Detective Inspector Blair s... more info>>
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Kissing Christmas Goodbye [Agatha Raisin Mystery Series Book 18] [Secure Mobipocket]
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Unlike quite a number of people, Agatha had not given up on Christmas. To have the perfect Christmas had been a childhood dream whilst surviving a rough upbringing in a Birmingham slum. Holly berries glistened, snow fell gently outside, and inside, all was Dickensian jollity. And in her dreams, James Lacey kissed her under the mistletoe, and, like a middle-aged sleeping beauty, she would awake to passion once more... Agatha Raisin is bored. Her detective agency in the Cotswolds is thriving, but ... more info>>
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Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden [Agatha Raisin Series Book 9] [Secure eReader (recommended)]
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There is nothing more depressing for a middle-aged lovelorn woman with bald patches on her head than to find herself in an English seaside resort out of season. Agatha Raisin consults a local witch for help. When the quiet town is stunned by the murder of the witch, Agatha--who has meanwhile captured the fancy of the village police inspector--won't stop until she finds the culprit, and a little love, too. 2000
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