Death of a Traitor (Hamish Macbeth)

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I wanted to love it but alas, the new author does not come close to the writing skills of M C Beaton. Gregor Mackenzie gazed out over the hillside above Lochdubh, leaning on his cromach walking staff and admiring his sheep grazing contentedly in the late morning sunshine.

On a day like today, he mused, with a blue sky and a light breeze breathing the freshest of air across the mountains, gently ruffling the heather in soft purple waves, Sutherland was surely the most beautiful place on the planet.

When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Thank you NetGalley and (publisher, little brown book group) for sending this book for review consideration. In this addition to a New York Times bestselling mystery series, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth—Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman—investigates the disappearance of a local woman who is more than she seems.

We find Macbeth in his usual circumstance - living alone in the police station (waiting to be assigned a new partner), doing everything he can to keep his head down and his police station open. I always enjoy being in Scotland with Hamish and his village and my collection of his adventures grows. There’d been enough interference by this woman over the year she’d been here that he is glad to see the back of her. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages and have sold more than twenty-two million copies worldwide.In this addition to a New York Times bestselling mystery series, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth—Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman—investigates the disappearance of a local woman who is more than she seems. He’d heard nothing about Hibbert taking a holiday and his day was suddenly cheered by the thought that he might be rid of her for a couple of weeks.