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Death of a Maid

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Travel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery from the author of the Agatha Raisin series.
Death of a Maid: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
Mrs. Gillespie is famous around the northwest of Sutherland for being the best charwoman ever. Of course, if anyone has any social pretensions one does not say charwoman, one talks about "my maid". Hamish Macbeth wins Mrs. Gillespie's services in a church raffle but spends most of the day trying to avoid her. She is a malicious gossip and she bangs around the furniture and clanks pots—he wonders how on earth she managed to get such a good reputation.
Then she is found dead in a large house belonging to a retired professor who was out the day she was killed. She has been struck down by a metal bucket of water. Remembering Mrs. Gillespie's malicious gossip, Hamish is sure she delighted in finding out secrets and probably searched through the drawers of the houses she cleaned, which means everyone whose home she cleaned could be a suspect.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 11, 2006
      At the start of Beaton's enjoyable 22nd Hamish Macbeth mystery (after
      \t\t 2006's Death of a Dreamer), the lovable
      \t\t Scottish constable stumbles over the body of a gossipy housecleaner, Mrs. Mavis
      \t\t Gillespie. She's been bludgeoned to death with her own pail, and there are
      \t\t plenty of suspects to go around in the Highlands village of Lochdubh. None of
      \t\t her clients liked her, but they insist she was a superb maid. Macbeth, noticing
      \t\t thick layers of dust in their homes, digs a little deeper and learns that Mrs.
      \t\t Gillespie was a more skilled blackmailer than housecleaner. His jealous senior
      \t\t colleagues try to thwart his investigation, but he's determined to get to the
      \t\t bottom of things. Meanwhile, the arrival of an erstwhile ladyfriend in town
      \t\t with a new beau makes lifelong bachelorhood appear not so appealing to Macbeth,
      \t\t who remains as charming a hero as ever in this funny, unpredictable read.
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    • Booklist

      January 1, 2007
      The laid-back Hamish Macbeth police procedurals, set in the remote reaches of the Scottish Highlands, almost define the British cozy. The Atlantic rages at the borders of the tiny village of Lochdubh, while unseemly passions rage within the town's picturesque cottages, reliably spilling over into murder. Macbeth, the local constable, is responsible for cleaning up the messes. A conflict running through the series, which gives a bit of contemporary zest to the plots, is Macbeth's struggles to fight against promotion, which would entail leaving the trout streams and Highland paths of Lochdubh for the crime-ridden streets of Strathbane. In this twenty-second entry in the much-loved series, a mean-spirited local housecleaner is brained with her own bucket. Local feeling runs so high against the nasty, gossiping shrew that Macbeth's suspect card is overfull. Macbeth's investigation uncovers, as usual, secrets seemingly worth defending with murder. As usual, Beaton delivers a delightfully old-fashioned, absorbing village mystery.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)

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