The ninth Hamish Macbeth mystery, beautifully republished with a brand new cover.

It's springtime in the Highlands and murder is in bloom!

Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has - horrors! - been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the centre of the village.

Hamish smells trouble and as usual he's right. The doctor's drugs go missing. Money vanishes. And neighbours suddenly become un-neighbourly... Nobody wants to volunteer a single scrap of information, so canny Hamish sets about the delicate task of worming the facts out of the villagers. And in the process he uncovers a story so bizarre that neither he nor the locals may ever recover from it...

Praise for M C Beaton:

'The books are a delight: clever, intricate, sardonic and amazingly true to the real Highlands' Kerry Greenwood

'It's always a special treat to return to Lochdubh' New York Times

It's springtime in the Highlands but storms are brewing for Hamish Macbeth. His life is going to pot. He has - horrors! - been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the middle of the village.

Hamish smells trouble and as usual he's right. The doctor's drugs have gone missing. Money vanishes. And neighbours suddenly become unneighbourly. Nobody wants to talk either, so canny Hamish faces the delicate task of worming the facts out of the villagers.

In the process he uncovers a story so bizarre that neither he nor the locals may ever be able to forget it...