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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.

For Mark Whelan, Private Investigator, it all begins in a sombre but entirely unremarkable way: a visit to the morgue to provide moral support to a client as he formally identifies his brother.

It’s been a rocky couple of weeks for Jim Sanford. He’s had to deal with two life-changing deaths – first his mother, and then the man who combined father figure and best friend since his boyhood.

Richard Gould was looking forward to his retirement, to spending at least part of his time in the heritage home he had renovated in a quiet village in Ontario, and particularly to his major project

Richard Gould anticipait avec plaisir sa retraite à passer au moins une partie de son temps dans la maison ancestrale qu’il avait rénovée dans un village tranquille de l’Ontario et plus particulièr

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.

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.

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.