Death of an Honest Man

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth - Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman - returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series.

Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English.

Paul
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. Angela Brody was told her detective stories were pap for the
masses and it was time she wrote literature instead. He accused Hamish
of having dyed his fiery red hair. He told Jessie Currie - who repeated
all the last words of her twin sister - that she needed psychiatric
help.

"I speak as I find," he bragged. Voices saying, "I could kill that man," could be heard from Lochdubh to Cnothan.

And someone did.

Now
Hamish is faced with a bewildering array of suspects. And he's lost the
services of his clumsy policeman, Charlie, who has resigned from the
force after throwing Chief Inspector Blair into the loch. Can Hamish
find the killer on his own?