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Armed with a bucket and mop, Mrs. Gillespie brings misery into the quiet life of Hamish Macbeth when he wins her maid services in a church raffle. He fears she's more likely to snoop than clean, since rumor has it that she damages more items than she dusts.
Yet Macbeth has more upsetting issues to ponder-his former girlfriend, reporter Elspeth Grant, is back in the village for a holiday with her new boyfriend. Then he gets notice that a TV crew plans a documentary on him. Its airing is sure to get him a promotion and transfer to the city-and Hamish Macbeth would rather be boiled in oil than leave the serenity of Lochdubh.
Though lately Macbeth's seeing the squabbling of seagulls and feeling an ill wind coming. Sure enough, Mrs. Gillespie is soon found dead under suspicious circumstances. And as he investigates the case, Elspeth's presence torments the red-haired bobby and drives him to foolish antics. But what should really preoccupy Macbeth are the town's hidden secrets-ones that will force a killer to lash out in deadly, irrevocable acts
At the start of Beaton's enjoyable 22nd Hamish Macbeth mystery (after 2006's Death of a Dreamer), the lovable Scottish constable stumbles over the body of a gossipy housecleaner, Mrs. Mavis Gillespie. She's been bludgeoned to death with her own pail, and there are plenty of suspects to go around in the Highlands village of Lochdubh. None of her clients liked her, but they insist she was a superb maid. Macbeth, noticing thick layers of dust in their homes, digs a little deeper and learns that Mrs. Gillespie was a more skilled blackmailer than housecleaner. His jealous senior colleagues try to thwart his investigation, but he's determined to get to the bottom of things. Meanwhile, the arrival of an erstwhile ladyfriend in town with a new beau makes lifelong bachelorhood appear not so appealing to Macbeth, who remains as charming a hero as ever in this funny, unpredictable read. (Feb.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Jerry McClellan
reviewed Death of a Maid (Hamish Macbeth Series #23) on September 27, 2020 Death of a Maid (Hamish Macbeth Series #23)
I would like to have read these books in order, but I'm not buying them, since my library has them all. The catch is I have to wait until they are available and apparently Hamish Macbeth is very popular here in East Texas. I have heard the first couple of Hamish Macbeth that I suppose were written in the nineties and have jumped to one of the last MacBeth's.
Some of the internal dramas are spoiled this way, but the mystery is still good. In fact, I would say that actual story line is more developed, more complex, and involving a few more twists and turns than the earlier ones I've read.
MacBeth may be a little older and more cynical as well, but nothing to detract from a good mystery.
If you want to know what Death of a Maid is about you can read the blurb, but I will simply say that a nasty old char woman has found a way to intimidate and bully her clients. Why? To get rich? Maybe another reason. She finally threatens the wrong person and ends up with her head bashed in. The rest of the story is Hamish hunting and gathering clues.
It's interesting to me how many of these mysteries, not just M.C. Beaton's but many mystery writers make the murder victim out to be someone that everyone wants murdered. In real life, of course, perfectly innocent people get murdered as well, but I think for a cozy mystery, it's much more comfortable if the victim was someone everyone, including the reader, is glad to have dead.
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