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Is this the new Sherlock Holmes? Not only did Sherlock Holmes survive the Reichenbach Falls, but he has a son, Sebastian, itching to prove himself his father's equal.

Charlie Muffin’s new job puts him in the crosshairs of a vicious American drug lord

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.

Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, will be married at last.

When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns.

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

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.

It's just weeks from the outbreak of the First World War, a conflict few expect to erupt. If it does, Russia is pivotal.

Bossy, impulsive, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha is dreading the upcoming marriage of her ex-husband, James Lacey.

In Scotland, a boastful wrestler challenges Constable Hamish Macbeth to a fight. When the wrestler is murdered before the match, Macbeth's unfriendly superior names him the prime suspect.

One was his wife, one was his mistress, but when top corporate accountant John Carver dies in a road-traffic accident after discovering Mob links within his father-in-law's Manhattan firm, the

This is the first of the Hamish Macbeth mysteries, set in the Scottish Highlands. A nasty member of a class in salmon fishing is murdered, and everyone has a motive.