Death of an addict
Now the latest book in this long-running Scottish series finds the recalcitrant Lochdubh policeman suffering a love life as bleak as a Highland winter, and investigating two kinds of monsters: a mysterious loch denizen and a brutal drug kingpin... In the far north, isolation drives some men to drink...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
The Mysterious Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Beaton, M. C. Hamish Macbeth mysteries ;
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| Summary: | Now the latest book in this long-running Scottish series finds the recalcitrant Lochdubh policeman suffering a love life as bleak as a Highland winter, and investigating two kinds of monsters: a mysterious loch denizen and a brutal drug kingpin... In the far north, isolation drives some men to drink and shelters others from the temptations of modern life. The drink might explain the reports of a sea monster near the dour village of Drim. The latter led young, recovering addict Tommy Jarret to rent a chalet from a local crofter. Despite the fears of some Lochdubh citizens, Hamish Macbeth didn't believe the fresh-faced lad would go back to drugs willingly...even when Tommy was found dead, apparently of an overdose. Suspecting the Loch Drim monster is a hoax, and unable to forget Tommy's death, Macbeth goes to Strathbane, a nearby town, to infiltrate the local heroin trade. It's a daft scheme-and perhaps the most courageous thing Macbeth has ever attempted. It may also be the last thing he ever does. Strathbane's chief superintendent is thrilled with Hamish's plan, so thrilled that he brings up a notorious detective inspector from Glasgow to run the operation. The copper in question is Olivia Chater-aka "Concrete Knickers". Beautiful but cold, the tough-talking Olivia will pose as Macbeth's wife. Thus begins a charade that would push two stubborn personalities into a war of wills and put an intractable Highlander in an Armani suit among the circling sharks of the underworld. And in either chilling situation it would be fatal for the constable to show vulnerability. Or fall in love. |
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| Physical Description: | 215 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780892966752 0892966750 |
| Author Notes: | Working at one time or another as a theater critic, newspaper reporter, and editor, she used her British background to write a series of regency romances set in England and Scotland. Some of her regency romances include The Folly, Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue, and Regency Gold. In 1986, she was awarded the Romantic Times Award for Outstanding Regency Series Writer. She has also written two mystery series under the pseudonym M. C. Beaton: The Hamish Macbeth Series, which became the inspiration for a television show in England, and The Agatha Raisin Series, about a retired advertising executive. Her title His and Hers made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Marion Chesney passed away on December 31, 2019 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) |
