TITLE: Death of a Cad AUTHOR: M.C. Beaton
STARTED: April 10, 2011
FINISHED: April 18, 2011
PAGES: 187
GENRE: Mystery
FIRST SENTENCE: Henry Withering, playwright, slumped down in the passenger seat of the station wagon after another bleak look out at the forbidding landscape.
SUMMARY: [From Amazon.com
] Murder Most Fowl When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance 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. THOUGHTS: This series is too charming for its own good. I want this town and these characters to exist. Beaton, you meany, stop making me want to start friendships with fictional characters.
I would say more about this book, but I read it for Read-a-thon.... in April. I am so behind on my book reviews that all I can remember about this one is that it caused me to smile and smirk a lot. These are good things. This is a good series. Everyone (including non-mystery readers like me) should give a whirl.
RATING: 6/10 [Good]
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