Hamish Macbeth ~ Books 1-33 – M.C. Beaton, Marion Chesney Free Audiobook

Written by M.C. Beaton, Marion Chesney
Read by Graeme Malcolm, Antony Ferguson, Shaun Grindell, Davina Porter
Format: MP3
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Unabridged

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Death of a Gossip
The Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 1
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 1
Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins

Release date: 01-12-16
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joined the fishing class, she wasted no time in ruffling the feathers – or was it the fins? – of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue and unladylike manner was Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet not even Hamish thought someone would permanently silence Lady Jane’s shrills – until her strangled body is fished out of the river. Now, with the help of the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Hamish must angle through the choppy waters of the tattler’s life to find the murderer. But with a school of suspects who aren’t ready to talk and dead women telling no tales, Hamish may be in over his head, for he knows that secrets are dangerous, knowledge is power, and killers usually do strike again. Includes the bonus story “Knock, Knock You’re Dead”.

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Death of a Cad
Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 2
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 2
Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins

Release date: 01-14-16
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, everybody in town is delighted…except for love-smitten Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet his affairs of the heart will have to wait. Vile, boorish Captain Bartlett, one of the guests at Priscilla’s engagement party, has just been found murdered – shot while on a grouse hunt. Now, with many titled party guests as the prime suspects, each with a reason for snuffing out the despicable captain, Hamish must smooth ruffled feathers as he investigates the case. When the hidden culprit strikes again, Hamish will find himself trying to save Priscilla from a miserable marriage – and catch a killer before he flies the coop.

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Death of an Outsider
The Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 3
By: M.C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 3
Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins

Release date: 09-24-13
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Here is the third book in the much-loved Hamish Macbeth series from the author of the best-selling Agatha Raisin series.

The most hated man in the dourest town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or more accurately, has been dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remains of the murdered victim are his bones. But once the lobsters have been shipped off to Britain’s best restaurants, the whole affair quickly lands on the plate of Constable Hamish Macbeth.

Exiled to the dreary outpost of Cnothan, Macbeth sorely misses his beloved Lochdubh, but before he can head back home he must first contend with a detective chief inspector who wants the murder hushed up, a dark-haired lassie who is out to seduce him, and a killer who has made mincemeat of his last victim – and will no doubt strike again.

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Death of a Perfect Wife
A Hamish Macbeth Mystery, Book 4
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 4
Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins

Release date: 09-20-13
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Hamish Macbeth, the laid-back constable of Lochdubh, Scotland, has a new Land Rover to drive and a Highland summer to savor, but as fast as rain rolls in from the loch, his happy life goes to hell in a handbasket.

The trouble begins when his beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe returns from London – with a fiancé on her arm. His miseries multiply when clouds of midges, the diabolical Scottish mosquito, descend on the town. Then a paragon of housewifery named Trixie Thomas moves into Lochdubh with her lapdog husband in tow. The newcomer quickly convinces the local ladies to embrace low-cholesterol meals, ban tobacco, and begin bird-watching. Soon the town’s fish-and-chips-loving men are up in arms.

Now faced with the trials of his own soul, Macbeth must solve Lochdubh’s newest crime: the mysterious poisoning of the perfect wife.

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Death of a Hussy
A Hamish Macbeth Mystery, Book 5
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 5
Length: 5 hrs and 1 min

Release date: 10-23-13
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
A classic title from M. C. Beaton’s New York Times best-selling Hamish Macbeth series.

About the best that can be said of wealthy Maggie Baird is that inside her middle-aged body, there still beats the heart of a beautiful tart. So when her car catches fire with Maggie in it, there are five likely suspects right on the premises of her luxurious Highlands cottage. Lochdubh police constable Hamish Macbeth has to question Maggie’s timid niece and four former lovers, one of whom Maggie had intended to pick for her husband. All five are equally poor – with ample motive and opportunity to monkey with Maggie’s car. Now to find the killer, the astute lawman must apply his extraordinary insight into human nature. But when the evidence appears to point to the wrong person entirely, Hamish must dig down deep to stop the real murderer’s escape.

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Death of a Snob
A Hamish Macbeth Mystery, Book 6
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 6
Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins

Release date: 10-23-13
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
A classic title from M. C. Beaton’s New York Times best-selling Hamish Macbeth series.

Believing that someone is trying to murder her, gorgeous Jane Wetherby asks Hamish Macbeth to spend Christmas with her and an exclusive group of friends at her Scottish island health farm. With a cold in his head and no place to go for the holidays, Hamish accepts her invitation. He thinks the lady is a bit daft, but, arriving on the lonely isle of Eileencraig, he feels a prickle of foreboding. The locals are openly threatening; the other guests, especially a terrible snob named Heather Todd, are barely civil. So when Heather meets an untimely end, Hamish knows he doesn’t have far to look for the culprit. The only snag in his investigation is that all the guests were in the house when Heather vanished. Now, as mysterious events abound on Eileencraig, Hamish must work through the holiday sniffles to find the killer – or else it will be a very miserable Christmas indeed.

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Death of a Prankster
The Hamish Macbeth Mysters, Book 7
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 7
Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins

Release date: 11-22-13
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
A classic title from M.C. Beaton’s New York Times best-selling Hamish Macbeth series about the death of a practical joker.

Admittedly, there’s a touch of black humor in the case. Rich, old practical joker Andrew Trent summons his kin to the remote Arrat House in the dead of winter for a deathbed farewell. They arrive to find him in perfect health and eager to torment them with a new bag of unfunny jokes.

But this time the body that falls out of the closet is Andrew Trent’s own. And nobody’s laughing. Especially not Constable Hamish Macbeth, who is hard put to glean any information from Trent’s unappealing nearest and dearest. And when the lanky constable’s former flame Priscilla Halburton-Smythe inserts her beautiful self into the case, Hamish must muster all his native guile to carry him through. Fortunately, he has a few clever tricks up his own sleeve which enable this most endearing of crime fighters to get the best – and last – laugh.
©2013 Blackstone Audio; 2012 M.C. Beaton

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Death of a Greedy Woman
The Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 8
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 8
Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins

Release date: 11-22-13
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
A classic title from M. C. Beaton’s New York Times best-selling Hamish Macbeth series

Peta Gore is the bane of her friend’s otherwise successful life. Maria Worth has come to hate her old friend – a noisy, vulgar glutton. There is no other way to describe Peta. She doesn’t just “have a good appetite” – she sucks and chomps and chews with relish. Not only are her table manners horrifying, but she has a habit of showing up at Maria’s carefully planned singles’ gatherings and spoiling everything by flirting with all the men. This time Maria is determined to keep her latest event a secret.

The gathering is to be at Tommel Castle Hotel in the remote Scottish village of Lochdubh – the perfect setting for a, particularly difficult group. Nothing can go wrong. Except that somehow Peta finds out about the gathering and shows up, thoroughly disgusting everyone. Guests and staff band together in mutual loathing. But does someone hate her enough to kill her? When she is found dead, an apple stuck unceremoniously in her mouth, Constable Hamish Macbeth is on the scene. With a castle full of odd suspects, the lazy, long-limbed constable has to put his wooing of the hotel proprietress, Priscilla, on hold to solve the case.

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Death of a Traveling Man
The Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 9
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 9
Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins

Release date: 12-30-13
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth’s life is going to pot. He has – horrors! – been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimed traveler named Sean and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the middle of the village. Hamish smells trouble, and he’s right, as usual. The doctor’s drugs go missing. Money vanishes. Neighbors suddenly become unneighborly. The tension only explodes after the itinerant Sean is found brutally beaten to death in his camper. Suspicion quickly falls on his girlfriend, but with nobody willing to talk, the canny Hamish faces the tough task of worming the facts out of the villagers. As he uncovers a bizarre story around the murdered traveler, Macbeth knows he must find the truth soon – before the killer gets away for good.

Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth’s new promotion means more money, but it also means that an eager beaver of a policeman has been thrust upon him, interfering with Hamish’s easygoing way of life. Fans of the lazy Hamish will delight in seeing him pitted against a zealous young officer while solving a disturbing murder.

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Death of a Charming Man
The Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 10
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 10
Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Release date: 12-30-13
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Mystery fans around the world have come to love police constable Hamish Macbeth – the red-haired, one-man police force of Scotland’s Lochdubh. M. C. Beaton’s splendid characterizations, vibrant local color, and wry humor are the hallmarks of this internationally-acclaimed British series.
When the dashing Peter Hynd arrives in the backwater village of Drim, the local matrons overflow the town’s only fitness class and buy out the local store’s hair coloring. Hamish isn’t surprised that Hynd is soon missing, and a body has been found…until he finds the corpse is not the charming man he expects.

Can Macbeth find the murderer and the missing man, or will the dour, crablike men of Drim keep their secrets and commit the perfect crime?
Great Scot! Don’t miss more of Hamish Macbeth’s cases.

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Death of a Nag
Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 11
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 11
Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Release date: 01-17-14
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth is dourer than ever after losing both his promotion and his girl, the loyal Priscilla Halburton-Smythe. A trip to a charming seaside inn with his dog Towser is meant to raise his sagging spirits. Instead, he arrives at “Friendly House” to find the ambiance chilling, the food inedible, and his fellow guests less than neighborly. There’s an amorous spinster, two tarty girls, a retired military man, a secretive London family, and Bob Harris, who so nags his wife, Doris, that everyone wants to kill him. Then somebody does. Soon Macbeth is called upon to act – to dig into the past and deep into the heart to deliver something more daunting than merely the culprit: justice.

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Death of a Macho Man
The Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 12
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 12
Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins

Release date: 09-15-13
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
When Hamish Macbeth, local constable of the Scottish village of Lochdubh, tries to break up one of the many fights involving Randy “Macho Man” Duggan, the ruffian challenges him to a fistfight. Everyone expects Macbeth to take a beating from the man who claims to be a professional wrestler, but on the chosen day, Duggan is found shot to death – and Macbeth is the likeliest suspect.

The brutal Macho Man left a trail of fear and hatred in his wake, and Macbeth must find the murderer, clear his name, and restore his Highland paradise to its usual tranquility amid all the excitement.

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Death of a Dentist
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 13
Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins

Release date: 01-10-14
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Murder with bite…

Dr. Frederick Gilchrist has a reputation. Though his cheap rates and penchant for pulling teeth have earned him a clientele, wiser highlanders avoid the womanizing dentist. It takes a blinding toothache to send Hamish Macbeth 120 miles out of Lochdubh to see the man, only to find him dead. Since everyone is pleased the dentist is deceased – patients, several harassed women, his ex-wife – Macbeth faces one of the more biting challenges of his career. When he starts extracting clues, he uncovers a past as dangerous as it is shocking.

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Death of a Scriptwriter
Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 14
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 14
Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins

Release date: 02-11-14
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Hollywood in the Highlands

With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his wish – and more – when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clambers into the nearby town of Drim. Before long bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery…and culminates in the sudden appearance of one very real corpse.

The initial suspect in the killing is one Patricia Martyn-Broyd, the aging mystery writer furious that her musty old cozies a regretting a risqué face-lift for their television reincarnation. Yet, going behind the scenes, Hamish soon finds a town full of locals bitten by the movie bug and a cast of quarreling show-business types, all harboring their own secrets, lies, and hidden agendas. And as the culprit strikes again, Hamish must quickly find the right killer – or script the wrong finale to a show gone murderously awry.

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Death of an Addict
A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 15
Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Release date: 04-09-09
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
With their engaging plots, mellow Scottish ambiance, and droll humor, the Hamish Macbeth mysteries always provide readers a bonnie time. The charming antics of their hopelessly unambitious and love-crossed hero have earned the series a dedicated following. Death of an Addict continues the Hamish Macbeth tradition of superb entertainment, with some fascinating twists.
When a recovering addict dies while recuperating near Lochdubh, our red-headed hero suspects foul play. To complete his investigation, Constable Macbeth must leave his idyllic home and travel to Amsterdam to match wits with big-time drug dealers.

Fans will enjoy seeing a new, tougher side of Macbeth as he dons smart suits and falls in love with his gorgeous superior officer.

With her authentic accents and impeccable timing, narrator Davina Porter provides the perfect voice for this series’ wonderfully quirky characters.
Great Scot! Don’t miss more of Hamish Macbeth’s cases.

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A Highland Christmas
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries
Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins

Release date: 01-07-15
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
In the dark, wintry highlands of Lochdubh, Scotland, where the local Calvinist element resists the secular trimmings of Christmas, the spirit of old Saint Nick is about as welcome as a flat tire on a deserted road. Nor is a crime taking a holiday, as Constable Hamish Macbeth soon finds himself protecting an unhappy girl, unlocking the secrets of a frightened old woman, and retrieving some stolen holiday goods. Now the lanky lawman must use all his Highland charm and detective skills to make things right. And he had better do it quickly, for the church bells will soon toll and all Lochdubh will be forced to face another dreary winter without the comforting embrace of Yuletide cheer.

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By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 16
Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins

Release date: 01-07-15
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
When Fergus Macleod, Lochdubh’s abusive, drunk dustman is put in charge of the local recycling center, Hamish Macbeth smells trouble. Sure enough, Fergus, imbued with his new powers, becomes a bullying tyrant. When his body is found stuffed in a recycling bin, no one is sorry – including his long-suffering family. But Macbeth is surprised to find that many of the despicable dustman’s victims refuse to talk – and when violence strikes again, the lanky lawman must quickly unearth the culprit among a litter of suspects… before the killer makes a clean getaway!

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Death of a Celebrity
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 17
Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins

Release date: 01-07-15
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
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 scandals for her new hit show, Macbeth notes that someone besides himself might be dead keen to stop her. Then someone does – with stealth and violence. Finding out who did it will lead the laconic Macbeth down roads he never envisioned, into a dark story of passion and vengeance – and perhaps a crisis of the heart all his own.

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Death of a Village
A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 18
Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins

Release date: 05-24-12
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
The aromas of wild thyme and Highland heather waft through Lochdubh, home to M. C. Beaton’s eccentric policeman, Hamish Macbeth. Yet what the irascible constable smells in his latest case is the acrid scent of fear as an entire town is entrapped in something dark and deadly…

Yet as he deftly investigates the summer’s high crimes and misdemeanors, he attracts the attention of his superiors. They feel a promotion and transfer will give him a larger playing field than Lochdubh. That’s the last thing Macbeth wants. Now the laconic lawman needs a clever way to quash the move without losing his job entirely…

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Death of a Poison Pen
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 19
Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins

Release date: 01-07-15
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

publishers Summary
When the townspeople of Lochdubh begin receiving poison-pen letters, no one takes them very seriously, even if they are full of wild accusations. But Hamish fears that they might lead to something deadly. His instincts prove correct when the town’s postmistress is found hanging from a rope with a poison-pen letter at her feet. Though it appears to be a suicide, Hamish suspects something more sinister. Attempting to trace the letters, the last thing Hamish needs is any distractions, but soon Jenny Ogilvie arrives in Lochdubh determined to seduce him. Realizing that she is unable to take Hamish’s mind off his case, Jenny decides to do a little investigating of her own. Hamish finds himself in a race to solve the mystery of the poison-pen letters before someone else dies, including one likely target – Jenny.
©2015 M. C. Beaton (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc

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Death of a Bore
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 20
Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins

Release date: 08-31-07
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
When John Heppel, a visiting writer to Lochdubh, first proposes forming a writers’ circle, the idea is met with much enthusiasm from local residents. However, once the classes get underway, attendance quickly falters due to one undeniable fact: John Heppel is a long-winded, consummate bore. But is dullness a motive for murder? Hamish Macbeth wouldn’t ordinarily think so. So when Heppel is found dead, Hamish begins looking for deeper meaning in the writer’s stories, including a strange, unfinished soap-opera script that seems to suggest a more sinister motive behind its author’s unhappy ending.
Great Scot! Don’t miss more of Hamish Macbeth’s cases.

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Death of a Dreamer
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 21
Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins

Release date: 08-31-07
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Occasionally, the rugged landscape of Scotland attracts dreamers who move north, wrapped in fantasies of enjoying the simple life. They usually don’t last, defeated by the climate or by inhospitable locals.
But it looks as if Effie Garrand has come to stay. When local constable Hamish Macbeth calls on her, he is amazed to find the small woman still in residence after a particularly hideous winter. Unfortunately, Effie is also quite delusional, having convinced herself and everyone else that local artist Jock Fleming is in love with her, and that they are engaged.

After a huge fight with Jock, Effie is found in the mountains, poisoned by hemlock. Now, it’s up to Hamish to find the dreamer’s killer before any more nightmares unfold.
Great Scot! Don’t miss more of Hamish Macbeth’s cases.

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Death of a Maid
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 22
Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins

Release date: 01-22-08
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Mrs. Gillespie is famous for being the best maid in the northwest of Sutherland. But to Hamish Macbeth, she is a malicious gossip who bangs around the furniture and clanks pots. When Hamish wins Mrs. Gillespie’s services in a church raffle, he spends most of the day trying to avoid her. He doesn’t understand how she managed to gain such a fine reputation. Then she is found dead, struck down violently by a metal bucket of water. Knowing Mrs. Gillespie’s penchant for gossip, Hamish is sure she delighted in finding out her clients’ secrets – which means that everyone whose home she cleaned is a suspect.
Great Scot! Don’t miss more of Hamish Macbeth’s cases.

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Death of a Gentle Lady
A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 23
Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins

Release date: 03-21-08
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Gentle by name, gentle by nature. Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle – everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is. Hamish thinks the gentle lady is quite sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh think he is overly cranky. Perhaps it’s time for him to get married, they say.
But who has time for marriage when there’s a murder to be solved? When Mrs. Gentle dies under mysterious circumstances, the town is shocked and outraged. Chief Detective Inspector Blair suspects members of her family, but Hamish Macbeth thinks there’s more to the story and begins investigating the truth behind this lady’s gentle exterior.
Great Scot! Don’t miss more of Hamish Macbeth’s cases.

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Death of a Witch
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 24
Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins

Release date: 02-01-09
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Returning from a disappointing foreign holiday, police constable Hamish Macbeth is worried. He learns that a newcomer, Catriona Beldame, is regarded as a witch and various men have been seen visiting her. Hamish himself is charmed by her until he finds out that she has been supplying dangerous potions. At first, the villagers won’t listen to him, saying that the loveless Hamish has turned against all women.
When Beldame is found murdered and her home set ablaze, he must clear his own name and then work to solve yet another murder to bring peace and quiet back to his beloved village. His investigations are complicated by a romance with a female forensic expert. Perhaps the Scotish Highlands’ most stubborn bachelor will get married at last!

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Death of a Valentine
A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 25
Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Release date: 12-31-09
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, may actually marry at last. The entire village of Lochdubh adores Macbeth’s bride-to-be. Josie McSween is Hamish’s new constable, and she is a pretty little thing, with glossy brown hair and big brown eyes.

The local folk thinks that Josie is quite a catch, but Hamish couldn’t be more miserable. The wedding wouldn’t be happening if it weren’t for the murder of a beautiful woman in a nearby village. After the gorgeous woman receives a deadly Valentine’s Day gift, Hamish and Josie take on the case. However, they soon discover that the list of the victim’s admirers is endless. The case confirms Hamish’s belief that love is extremely dangerous, but he still can’t avoid the events that lead up to his celebrated engagement.
Great Scot! Don’t miss more of Hamish Macbeth’s cases.

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Death of a Chimney Sweep
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 26
Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins

Release date: 02-25-11
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
In the isolated villages in the north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the chimney sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until the day that Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager’s fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn’t believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. Then Pete’s body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens. It’s up to Hamish to discover who’s responsible for the dirty deed–and this time, the murderer may be closer than he realizes.

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Death of a Kingfisher
A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 27
Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins

Release date: 03-01-12
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesn’t have much to offer, other than a place of rare beauty called Buchan’s Wood, which was bequeathed to the town. The savvy local tourist director renames the woods “The Fairy Glen,” and has brochures printed with a beautiful photograph of a kingfisher rising from a pond on the cover. It isn’t long before coach tours begin to arrive. But just as the town’s luck starts to turn, a kingfisher is found hanging from a branch in the woods with a noose around its neck. As a wave of vandalism threatens to ruin Braikie forever, the town turns to Hamish Macbeth. And when violence strikes again, the lawman’s investigation quickly turns from animal cruelty to murder.

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Death of Yesterday
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 28
Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins

Release date: 03-26-13
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Audio

Publisher’s Summary
When a local woman tells Sergeant Hamish Macbeth that she doesn’t remember what happened the previous evening, he doesn’t begin to worry. She had been out drinking, after all, and he’d prefer not to be bothered with such an arrogant and annoying woman. But when her body is discovered, Hamish is forced to investigate a crime that the only known witness – now dead – had forgotten.

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Death of a Policeman
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 29
Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins

Release date: 02-27-14
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Audio

Publisher’s Summary
Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth. Blair suggests that Cyril Sessions, a keen young police officer, visit the town of Lochdubh to monitor exactly what Macbeth does every day. Macbeth hears about Blair’s plan and is prepared to insure that Cyril returns back to headquarters with a full report. But Cyril is soon found dead and Hamish quickly becomes the prime suspect in his murder.

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Death of a Liar
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 30
Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Release date: 02-03-15
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Audio

Publisher’s Summary
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder, he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie. This time, though, she is telling the truth. Her body is found in her home and Hamish must sort through all of her lies to solve the crime.

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Death of a Nurse
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 31
Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins

Release date: 02-23-16
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Audio

Publisher’s Summary
M. C. Beaton’s New York Times best-selling Hamish Macbeth series continues with a new mystery featuring Scotland’s most quick-witted but unambitious policeman.

James Harrison has recently moved to a restored hunting lodge in Sutherland with his gorgeous private nurse, Gloria Dainty. When Hamish visits Mr. Harrison to welcome him to the neighborhood, the old man treats him very rudely. Gloria apologizes for her employer’s behavior, and Hamish takes the plunge and invites her out for dinner. On the appointed evening, Hamish waits for Gloria at the restaurant. And waits. Gloria never shows up. Four days later, Gloria’s body washes up on the beach near Braikie. Now without a date and without his former policeman Dick Fraser (who left the force to buy a bakery), Hamish must find out who killed the beautiful new resident of Sutherland, and why, before the murderer strikes again…

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Death of a Ghost
A Hamish Macbeth Mystery, Book 32
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 32
Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins

Release date: 02-21-17
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Audio

Publisher’s Summary
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth – Scotland’s most quick-witted but unambitious policeman – returns in M. C. Beaton’s new mystery in her New York Times best-selling series

Death of a Ghost

When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights reported by the villagers are just local teenagers going there to smoke pot or, worse, inject themselves with drugs. Still, Hamish decides that he and his policeman, Charlie “Clumsy” Carson, will spend the night at the ruined castle to get to the bottom of the rumors once and for all.

There’s no sign of any ghost…but then Charlie disappears through the floor. It turns out he’s fallen into the cellar. And what Hamish and Charlie find there is worse than a ghost: a dead body propped against the wall. Waiting for help to arrive, Hamish and Charlie leave the castle just for a moment – to eat bacon baps – but when they return, the body is nowhere to be seen.

It’s clear something strange – and deadly – is going on at the castle, and Hamish must get to the bottom of it before the “ghost” can strike again.

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Death of an Honest Man
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 33
Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins

Release date: 02-20-18
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Audio

Publisher’s Summary
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth – Scotland’s most quick-witted but unambitious policeman – returns in M.C. Beaton’s new mystery in her New York Times best-selling series.

Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul had moved to a house in Cnothan, a sour village on Hamish’s beat.

He attended church in Lochdubh. He told the minister, Mr. Wellington, that his sermons were boring. He told tweedy Mrs. Wellington that she was too fat and in these days of increasing obesity, it was her duty to show a good example. Angela Brody was told her detective stories were pap for the masses and it was time she wrote literature instead. He accused Hamish of having dyed his fiery red hair. He told Jessie Currie – who repeated all the last words of her twin sister – that she needed psychiatric help.

“I speak as I find,” he bragged. Voices saying, “I could kill that man,” could be heard from Lochdubh to Cnothan.

And someone did.

Now Hamish is faced with a bewildering array of suspects. And he’s lost the services of his clumsy policeman, Charlie, who has resigned from the force after Chief Inspector Blair berated Charlie one too many times, and the policeman threw Blair into the loch. Can Hamish find the killer on his own?