Death of a Nag by M.C. Beaton - first published in the UK in 1995
This is the first of the many Hamish Macbeth murder mysteries I have read. I have never seen any of the 1995-97 TV series, starring Robert Carlyle in the title role. Hamish goes on holiday to the fictional village of Skag on the Moray Firth. He stays in a guesthouse where the food is awful and there are several other guests in residence. He has only been there a couple of days when the unlikable husband of one of the fellow guests is murdered and he offers to help the local police with their enquiries. The book has an old fashioned 'Agatha Christie' kind of feel to it e.g. no one feels very sorry for the deceased and the murderer must be one of the fellow guests. 7/10
1st September 2012
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