Beaton, M.C.:  Death of a Village

I picked up this book at the library when I couldn’t find the book I was looking for. The detective is Hamish Macbeth who works as the main police officer in a small village in the highlands of Scotland.  Hamish solves several local cases in addition to the main one of why the people of a neighboring village called Storye are suddenly so strange.  His good police work comes to the attention of the authorities in a larger city but Hamish manages to avoid getting promoted by a couple of nefarious ruses.  An easy afternoon’s read and better than most television shows. This is the first book in this series I have read and I will probably try another one sometime.  I don’t know anyone else who reads them so I’m not sure if I ought to start with the first one.  I should research this series on fantasticfiction.com.