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Cargando... Death of a Laird (edición 2022)por R. W. Green (Autor), M. C. Beaton (Autor), David Monteath (Narrador), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher)
Información de la obraDeath of a Laird por M. C. Beaton
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. DEATH OF A LAIRD: A HAMISH MACBETH SHORT STORY is the latest Hamish Macbeth mystery published in 2022. The series was created and written by M.C. Beaton (nee Marion Chesney) but after her death in 2019, new titles were continued and written by R.W. Green. This is indeed a short story/novella and very entertaining. I have always had a ‘soft spot’ for Ms. Beaton’s Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin characters and am glad they are still with us. Light reading, to be sure, but engaging and fun. “A wealthy laird’s guests are trapped during a furious storm, but when the laird turns up dead, Scotland’s most quick-witted but unambitious policeman is on the case.” **** sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A wealthy laird's guests are trapped in his estate during a furious storm-but when the laird turns up dead, Scotland's amiable and quick-witted policeman, Hamish Macbeth, is on the case, in this delightful new short story in M. C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling series. When Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is sent to investigate reports that the wealthy new laird of the remote Naglar House has disappeared, northwest Scotland is hit by the worst storm in living memory. The road is washed away, phone lines are down, mobile reception is dead, and his police radio is out of order. He is trapped with the laird's high-class house guests. Then he discovers the laird's body. Forced to remain overnight at the house, Hamish interviews each of the guests and pieces together an alarming picture of clandestine infidelity, vicious jealousy, deadly revenge, lust, greed, and fear. It begins to look like all of the guests had good reason to want the laird dead, but which one of them actually did the deed? "A cast of engaging locals with full-blown Highland accents.". No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Review of the Blackstone Publishing audiobook (March 8, 2022) of the original Grand Central Publishing Kindle eBook (Feb. 15, 2022)
It is odd to have Death of a Laird released simultaneously with the latest full-length Hamish Macbeth novel Death of a Green-Eyed Monster. Usually short stories and novellas for a series are kept in reserve to be used as stop-gaps between novels or in some cases as a required prequel to lead into a full length story. Death of a Laird is simply a standard procedural which uses several of the stereotypical tropes of the crime mystery genre but without much of the charm and humour of the usual characters and situations associated with the Sergeant in the Scottish Highlands.
We have the isolated mansion, in this case cut off from the world by a storm which downs trees and blocks roads. We have the lone policeman present, called to the scene due to the disappearance of the laird of the title, who is of course discovered to be murdered. We have the limited cast of on-site suspects to be interviewed. We have the investigator assembling the group of suspects in a room for the final reveal. And... that's about it.
It leaves the impression that continuation writer R.W. Green was asked to write a conventional procedural in order to prove to the M.C. Beaton Estate that he was capable of taking over the reins in the continuing adventures of the Highland investigator.
The main upside here is that there is none of the nastiness which tainted both this series and the concurrent Agatha Raisin adventures towards the end of the original runs. Our Hamish is in standard benign form here. Even nemesis Chief Inspector Blair (who only makes a cameo appearance towards the end) does not pull any of his by now tiresome plots to undermine Hamish.
The lack of a Scottish accent in the narration performance by David Monteath (filling in for the series regular narrator Graeme Malcolm) was also disappointing. A lot of the charm of the audiobook versions is to hear the story told with a Scottish burr. ( )