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Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has unwillingly been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimed traveler named Sean has been found dead in his camper.

All Sergeant Hamish Macbeth wants to do is fish and drink coffee with his fiancée.

Glamorous reporter Crystal French blows into Lochdubh and is promptly given a speeding ticket by Constable Hamish Macbeth. She then rakes up old local scandals, outraging the entire village.

Constable Hamish Macbeth's affairs of the heart will have to wait when vile, boorish Captain Bartlett is found murdered--shot while on a grouse hunt.

In the dark, wintry highlands of Lochdubh, Scotland, where the local Calvinist element resists the secular trimmings of Christmas, the spirit of old Saint Nick is about as welcome as a flat tire on

Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-the star of her own hit T.V. series-is back on the case again in Down the Hatch.

Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth is taking a trip to a charming seaside inn with his dog to raise his sagging spirits.

When a troupe of filmmakers clambers into the Scottish town of Drim, bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery--and culminates in the appearance of one very real corpse.

When Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, she becomes involved in a gruesome murder and a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems.

Cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin must investigate members of a naturist club, who are to bare their bodies at a summer picnic, after one finds a dead body, which disappears, followed by more disappeara

Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle--everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is.

In the isolated villages in the north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the chimney sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes.

When John Heppel, a visiting writer to Lochdubh, first proposes forming a writers' circle, the idea is met with much enthusiasm from local residents.

When local constable Hamish Macbeth calls on Effie Garrand, he is amazed to find the small woman still in residence after a particularly hideous winter.

Mrs. Gillespie, famous for being the best maid in the northwest of Sutherland, is found dead, struck down by a metal bucket. Knowing Mrs.