Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML:Travel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery where an unladylike gossip columnist meets an untimely and watery death. From the author of the Agatha Raisin series. When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joined the fishing class, she wasted no time in ruffling the feathersâ??or was it the fins?â??of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue and unladylike manner was Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet not even Hamish thought someone would permanently silence Lady Jane's shrillsâ??until her strangled body is fished out of the river. Now with the help of the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Hamish must angle through the choppy waters of the tattler's life to find the murderer. But with a school of suspects who aren't ready to talk and dead women telling no tales, Hamish may be in over his head, for he knows that secrets are dangerous, knowledge is power, and killers usually do stri… (más)
Borrowed this on Maddie's recommendation, but couldn't get into it. The title detective barely shows his face in the first third, and neither does the murder. (It becomes obvious who's gonna die eventually, although "gossip" is a light word for it. I also don't love that she's fat and ugly and mean to everyone who crosses her path for no gain, and these are all given similar narrative weight.)
Maddie says MC Beaton is great at unlikeable narrators, which seems likely but is not my favorite thing. Gonna try one of the later books in this series, though.
I was engaged throughout because I was reading it in German, enjoying the challenge of the language but not particularly impressed with the plot. There was a whole lot of set up, and ultimately the book did not deliver. ( )
Death of a Gossip is a great introduction to a cozy mystery series that I definitely plan to continue reading – or listening to, since I've already got the second audiobook lined up. Narrator Antony Ferguson did an outstanding job of with all the characters and their various accents, especially the obnoxious Lady Jane. ( )
You came and quacked beside me in the wood, You said: "The view from here is very good." You said: "It's nice to be alone a bit." And: "How the days are drawing out," you said. By God - I wish - I wish that you were dead. - Rupert Brooke
Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML:Travel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery where an unladylike gossip columnist meets an untimely and watery death. From the author of the Agatha Raisin series. When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joined the fishing class, she wasted no time in ruffling the feathersâ??or was it the fins?â??of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue and unladylike manner was Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet not even Hamish thought someone would permanently silence Lady Jane's shrillsâ??until her strangled body is fished out of the river. Now with the help of the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Hamish must angle through the choppy waters of the tattler's life to find the murderer. But with a school of suspects who aren't ready to talk and dead women telling no tales, Hamish may be in over his head, for he knows that secrets are dangerous, knowledge is power, and killers usually do stri
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Maddie says MC Beaton is great at unlikeable narrators, which seems likely but is not my favorite thing. Gonna try one of the later books in this series, though.