A Highland Christmas
Hamish Macbeth - Book XVI
by M C Beaton
Hamish was hoping to spend Christmas with his family, but they have won a competition and
are vacationing in Florida instead. With the only other local policeman ill, he must cover
two beats instead of one, and has to discover what has become of a lonely widow’s cat and who
has stolen Cnothan’s Christmas tree and lights. As usual, all these crimes have rather more
to them than meets the eye at first sight.
Anybody who has been reading my reviews of this series can forget about the numbering and
instead insert this little gem in between
Death of an Addict
and Death of a Dustman.
No serious crimes this time, but a tale of missing Christmas cheer for several people and Hamish
playing Santa as he tries to improve their lot. This is just the sort of thing that fits the
bill at Christmas, a heart-warming simple tale about what the festive season really ought to be
about. I don’t know enough about the Highlands to be able to comment on the locals’ Calvinistic
ideas about Christmas but it adds a considerable amount of local color. |
The Book |
Robinson (Constable and Robinson) |
November 2009 |
Hardback |
184529890X / 9781845298906 |
Mystery /1999 / Highlands, Scotland |
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Excerpt |
NOTE: Christmas read
US edition is different |
The Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed 2010 |
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