I did not even come close to figuring this one out.

Another good entry into the Hamish Macbeth series.

The last MC Beaton that I read was really disappointing, so I'm really glad this one was back to the usual standard.

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Another enjoyable Hamish MacBeth murder mystery. I listened to the audible version of this story and find them entertaining and easy to follow as I am doing my chores or walking. Hamish is quite the character, good looking but unlucky in love, and the village policeman who solves mysteries much to the dismay of his supervisor. In addition to Hamish's quirks, the author has plenty of other quirky characters to keep you entertained while trying to solve the murder.

you hear a lot of stories about book being made into movies.......which is better the book or the movie? A lady in her 70's wrote a series of mystery books years ago. A television company bought the rights to one of her books. Then when her mystery is being rewritten for television, Patricia Martyn Boyd finds out, the story is being "modernized." (lots of sex and nudity). Patricia isn't happy about this and lets everyone know.
Patricia is accused of murdering the screenwriter and tries to hire Hamish McBeth to prove she is innocent. (Could this be a conflict of interest?)
Another fun story about McBeth.

This is another in the Hamish Macbeth books. The Scottish constable is left to sort out the deaths of an obnoxious scriptwriter and another member of the TV crew while trying to keep out of Inspector Blair's reach. Part of the plot centers around the TV production of a mystery book. The TV program so distorts the original book as to create many potential suspects. Since this is one of my pet peeves, it was a vicarious pleasure to read about someone wrecking havoc on the kind of people who perpetrate these abominations.

Snobby old Patricia Martyn-Broyd wrote one mediocre mystery about an aristocratic Scottish detective and then retired to the east side of tiny dark Cnothan on the lochs in northernmost Scotland hoping for inspiration to write another. She considered everyone beneath her, including local Lochdubh constable Hamish MacBeth who sensed a loneliness underneath her brashness and made an effort to befriend her. A British television company decided to feature the detective Lady Harriett from Martyn-Broyd's The Case of the Rising Tides in a television series. Once the book was optioned, Patricia's arrogance increased. The company found a filming location in Drim castle near where she lived, and little by little it came out that their plan was to make both Lady Harriett and the entire story as extremely risque as they could for television, and the contract left their treatment completely out of Patricia's control. The small town gossip and backbiting came to fore as townspeople first protested and then succumbed to flattery by the intruders into their locale. The operatic and sometimes histrionic lives of the film stars and crew weren't a drastic contrast to the assertion of dominance by various constabularies in the area when a murder occurred among during the filming. Meanwhile, the amiable and persistent Hamish MacBeth, who had been removed from the case by the larger Strathbane police force, covertly sought the truth.

Patricia Martyn-Broyd is an aging mystery writer with most of her books out-of-print. When a studio calls and wants to make a TV series based on her most successful novel, she's thrilled. Having fired her agent, she handles the deal herself. Unfortunately, she discovers too late that instead of having a proper mystery based on her story, it's been rehashed into a tawdry sex romp. After the scriptwriter and actress are killed, she becomes the prime suspect. But the two victims had plenty of enemies, so Hamish works to discover the truth.

Sadly, this is not one of my favorite in the series. There are too many point of view shifts and too many very unlikeable people. Hamish isn't in it nearly enough and there's just not much of his personal life to keep it that interesting. The lovely Highland atmosphere is lost.

This makes me wonder if Beaton had a bad experience with her books being turned into a tv series. The scriptwriter who is turning a staid, old-fashioned cozy murder mystery into a garish, sexy series is murdered, and everyone involved in the production, the author, and half the village are suspects.

Good fun, a snarky look at the tv business, as well as the ego of writers in general. Hamish gets stood up for dates, repeatedly, by three different women.

Hamish ermittelt wieder in den Highlands…. Auf seine unnachahmliche Art.
Alte und neue Figuren und für mich diesmal wieder eine unterhaltsame Geschichte, die ich in einem Rutsch durchgelesen habe

I almost gave this one a 2.5...but the second half made me round up. This one took a long time to get going (as many Hamish mysteries do), but for some reason, it seemed a little more stilted and didn't grab my attention as quickly as the others have. Once the story line got rolling, it was another fun Macbeth investigation for the most part.

One thing that bothered me was that over a year passes in just a few pages. I realize this was in order to set up the plot line, but to lose a year of Hamish's life really bothered me. Where was Priscilla this whole time (she isn't really mentioned much in this book...only as an aside to remind us she exists) and what was Hamish doing that entire year? I hope that doesn't happen again!

The story wraps up nicely, as always, but with Hamish feeling pretty down in the dumps. To be totally and completely honest...the best part of the series for me is the audiobook reader, Shaun Grindell. He is AWESOME! He gets switched to another reader at some point, and I am going to be very disappointed when I get to that book in the series.

Oh, fine. Kind of dull. I miss Priscilla. Why am I still reading these.....?

Gift from a friend. This is my first Hamish Macbeth book. I understand they were made into a T.V. series in the UK, however I have not viewed them in America.

Story, a spinster writer, now in her 70's, moves to Scotland to write a new book. She is very snobby and class conscious, and her books were written in the 1960's. The books are out of print, she hated her Agent, and is feeling a bit down. Out of the blue a T.V. station want to take her books and make a TV series out them. She does not go threw her Agent, signs the papers, unaware they are going to change her books drastically and bring in a bimbo to play her Detective.

This does not make the Author, Patricia Marty-Broyd a very "Happy Camper". She has made acquaintance of the local policeman in the Highlands, Mr. Macbeth and calls on him to solve the mystery of two murders, and find out who dun it, when she is accused. High jinks along the way,
including a nasty cheating Minister who bullies his wife, and highland women, who do appear to
be just a tad unwelcoming to outsiders! Macbeth is not doing well in his love life, and he works with incompetent higher ups, who try and stop him from doing his job at all times. In the end, Macbeth indeed does fine out, who dun it!