When Paul and Trixie Thomas, an unemployed English couple, move to Lochdubh, the villagers are wary of them--and when Trixie is found dead, village police inspector Hamish MacBeth suspects her husband from the very start. - (Baker & Taylor)
<p>Hamish Macbeth, the laid-back constable of Lochdubh, Scotland, has a new Land Rover to drive and a Highland summer to savor, but as fast as rain rolls in from the loch, his happy life goes to hell in a handbasket.</p><p>The trouble begins when his beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe returns from London—with a fianc+® on her arm. His miseries multiply when clouds of midges, the diabolical Scottish mosquito, descend on the town. Then a paragon of housewifery named Trixie Thomas moves into Lochdubh with her lapdog husband in tow. The newcomer quickly convinces the local ladies to embrace low-cholesterol meals, ban tobacco, and begin bird-watching. Soon the town's fish-and-chips-loving men are up in arms.<br></p><p>Now faced with the trials of his own soul, Macbeth must solve Lochdubh's newest crime: the mysterious poisoning of the perfect wife.</p> - (Blackstone Audiobooks)