This series is really getting into its stride.  We get to meet some more characters and get to know others in more detail, and of course there is the usual rather enchanting satirical humor that readers of Ms. Beaton expect.  Here she has a dig at the sort of woman who spins her own yarn, eats very healthy food and likes to take part in militant campaigns.  We also are treated to more views of the growing portrait of the larger-than-life and insular Highland community of Lochdubh, surely the modern reader’s Brigadoon.  It is true that this is another story where an unpopular person gets killed, but that is part of the definition of a cozy mystery.  This is another fairly simple and linear story but with an enviable use of humor and no excess verbiage to cloud the story and slow it down.  If brevity truly is the soul of wit (and anybody who reads as many wordy books as I do will surely agree) then this must be heart and soul.  All rather delightful, smart and addictive.