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A classic title from M.C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth series About the best that can be said of wealthy Maggie Baird is that inside her middle-aged body, there still beats the heart of a beautiful tart. So when her car catches fire with Maggie in it, there are five likely suspects right on the premises of her luxurious Highlands cottage. Lochdubh police constable Hamish Macbeth has to question Maggie's timid niece and four...

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth pays no mind to a bothersome woman who had been out drinking and forgot all the events of the previous evening until she turns up murdered.

Paris, 1911. Andre du Monde, director of a famous horror theater, has married a young girl from the country. As a child, Andre experienced something terrible. Now he can't be close to anyone except by frightening them.His wife is frightened too. Because Andre keeps telling her she's going to poison him...Alexander von Reisden, doctor to the mad and Andre's friend, seems to have outlived his own terrible past. He has a wife and a son, and work he loves....

"William Shakespeare's tragedy told in the style of texts, tweets, and status posts"--

Morag Merrilea wakes up in a hospital to find no knowledge of how she got there. She is an artist who spends time sketching faces at the local pub. Her sketchbook is missing. She contacts Hamish Macbeth who gives the story little time. When she turns up murdered, Hamish knows it is time to investigate but his only witness is dead.

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