Blurb:
When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, the whole town is delighted — save perhaps for love-smitten bobby Hamish Macbeth. But the morning after a posh engagement party, one of the guests, Captain Bartlett, is murdered on a grouse hunt.
Unfortunately, the prime suspects are the party guests. And a second murder soon follows the first. Now Hamish Macbeth must cut through the alibis before the killer strikes again . . . all the while trying to woo the lovely Priscilla from her jealous boyfriend.
In a nutshell:
I read it in: English
I liked it: Yes
For people who like: Very cosy mysteries, Scotland, the British upper class
My thoughts:
This is the second instalment in the Hamish Macbeth series and this time we meet a few more locals. However, the locals are mostly gentry from the wider area, not so much the Lochdubhians (or whatever the inhabitants of Lochdubh call themselves).
I liked Hamish in the first book already, but now I like him even better. He really is Mr.Nice. Unfortunately, his sidekick, well, not really, Priscilla is not his sidekick but rather his crush, left a bad impression this time. Not only did she get engaged to a guy who she knew was a total prick, she also stayed engaged even though she realizes that they are not suited at all to put it mildly. And why? Because she doesn’t want to stand up to her parents! I hate women like that. Whining about their own weakness, but nevertheless not doing anything about it.
The mystery was a good one. It might be me but again I had no clue who the murderer was but was pleased with his/her identity. Hamish is a clever one indeed.
For cozy mystery lovers this series is a must read.
Location: The fictional village of Lochdubh, Highlands, Scotland, UK
Map from wikipedia, landscape by macleod from sxc.hu
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Product info and buy link :
| Title | Death of a cad |
| Author | M. C. Beaton |
| Publisher | Robinson |
| ISBN | 9781845296667 |
| I got this book from | I bought it |
| Buy link | Buy Death of a cad |
| More info | The Hamish Macbeth series |
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Have you read this book? What did you think of it? I would love to hear other opinions.
Another one I haven’t read yet. I always try to read series in order but I didn’t with this one. You make me want to start it properly now.
I need to read another soon, they are just so much fun. I don’t like Priscila much.
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I always try to read in order, too. I don’t like it if I have no clue what happened before with recurring characters. Priscilla is not a very likeable character, is she?
I started reading Beaton’s Agatha Raisin series and really like that one, too. Have you read any of those. A. Raisin is another woman you have to get used to first, unusual heroine…
I got one and two of the Agatha Raisin but have not started yet.
When I started the Hamish Macbeth and saw how long the series was I never thought I might want to read all of them but now I would. I still got a few laters ones though but once I?ve read them, I’ll start with no1.
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