Cheryl R. (Spuddie) - , reviewed on 10/11/2007 + 412 more book reviews

Tenth in the Hamish MacBeth cozy Scottish police mystery series. The premise of this one put me off just a little, as last month I read one of Beaton's Agatha Raisin books which also dealt with a "beautiful man," a stranger who came into a village and wreaked havoc, delighting in causing strife with his malicious and manipulative ways, hidden under a thin veneer of good looks and charm. So the story was kind of old hat in that regard. On a personal level, Hamish is dealing with conflict within his newly-formed engagement to Priscilla as well as trying to stay one step ahead of his bosses. He uses some accrued vacation time to investigate a death that had been deemed an accident in the tiny village of Drim, where Peter Hynd, the beautiful stranger, caused problems before disappearing into thin air. This was not one of my favorites in this series because of having just read another book by the same author with a similar storyline, and with Hamish feeling so lost and disconcerted, I didn't get my usual warm fuzzies, either. Still, a decent entry in the series and one I'll continue reading.

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