Laura S. (BookHappy) reviewed on 6/13/2012 + 32 more book reviews

Death of a Charming Man a puzzle of how he got his comeuppance
The above title by M C Beaton is another in a long line of charming murder mysteries in which a rather lazy Scottish policeman, Hamish Macbeth, always manages to solve.
In this one, the grim little town of Drim is set agog by a stunningly attractive young man who enjoys pitting one admirer against the others. Every female with a breath is coloring her hair and working out at the local exercise studio to reduce the size of her bum. Of course business is booming for the hairdresser and instructor, but even they are caught in the web of the Charmer.
The Charmer evens takes Macbeth's sweetheart Prsicilla out to dinner now that's going too far.
Macbeth drives up from his base in Lochdubh to observe the goings-on and then to investigate the disappearance of the Charmer a case that appears to be a non-case because there has been no official complaint of a missing person. It looks like Macbeth is on a wild goose chase until all of a sudden ooh, I can't say any more or I'll give it away.
Along the way there's also time for fishing for trout, with a little help from a paganish child named Heather, foiling a burglary, and house-hunting with Priscilla.
So is the Charmer missing or not, dead or not, gone off to his rented-out house or on vacation or what? You'll have to read it to find out, sorry.

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