Henry Carter Hull

Lochdubh, a remote village reached only by a one-track lane, nestles serenely amid Scotland's hills … until well-known TV reporter Crystal French races into town in her bright BMW. And Constable Hamish Macbeth, dourly wed to duty instead of the fiancée who dumped him, promptly gives her a summons for reckless driving. Outraged, Crystal makes Macbeth's life a misery with a TV report on policing in the Highlands. When she also rakes up old local...

"Scotland's most laconic and low-tech policeman, Hamish MacBeth, is back and this time he must investigate the death of a gentle lady"--Provided by the publisher.

The Thomases, an English couple, move into the sleepy Scottish Highlands. There Trixie, a model of domestic efficiency, turns things around in the village.

While acting as the public relations person for a mineral water company hoping to use water from a spring in a nearby village, Agatha finds the village council chairman murdered.

Constable Hamish Macbeth is suspected of murder when one of his fellow guests at the Friendly House in Skag is murdered.

Recalcitrant Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth is in danger of losing his heart and his life when he is teamed up with the beautiful but cold cop Olivia Chater in a scheme to infiltrate the local heroin trade.

Scottish police inspector Hamish Macbeth finds himself with yet another case on his hands when a painful toothache sends him running to the office of the slightly unethical Dr. Gilchrist, only to find the dentist has been poisoned.

Hamish Macbeth, the one-man police department of the Highland village of Lochdubh, escapes the smothering attentions of his unofficial fiancee by traveling to the neighboring town of Drim to check out a charming newcomer who seems intent on stirring up trouble.

Police Constable Hamish Macbeth investigates when a villager who uses the services of itinerant chimney sweep Pete Ray finds a dead body stuffed up the chimney of his home, and Macbeth's feeling that Ray is not the killer is confirmed when the sweep is found dead on the Scottish moors.