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by M C Beaton Hamish Macbeth doesn’t get to visit the remote village of Stoyre very often, but then they seem to be a law-abiding lot. When he does visit he finds the place in the grip of a religious fervour, although the new preacher’s sermons don’t seem to be particularly inspiring. Even the pub is strangely empty, but suddenly an explosion rends the air as an English holiday cottage is blown to pieces. There is something very strange going on there—but what? Despite all of the usual joys of this series being firmly in place, this is not one of the most satisfactory in the series. The plot about the strange goings-on in the village takes up about half of the book, while the rest concerns three other cases and only one of these has a tenuous link. I longed for one big meaty plot filled with red herrings and detection, but instead was regaled with a disparate series of adventures that failed to add anything new or satisfy my craving for a good story. But any long series surely has room for something a bit different, and anybody who has enjoyed Nicholas Rhea’s Constable books (or the TV series Heartbeat) will see in this a modern Highland equivalent. Reviews of other titles in this series
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Death of a Village
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