Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton

Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth Mystery, #1)

by M.C. Beaton

When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joins the local fishing class she wastes no time in ruffling the feathers - or should that be fins? - of those around her.

Among the victims of her sharp tongue is Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth, yet not even Hamish thinks someone would seriously want to silence Lady Jane's shrill voice permanently - until her strangled body is fished out of the river.

Now with the help of the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Hamish must steer a course through the choppy waters of the tattler's life to find a murderer. But with a school of suspects who aren't willing to talk, and the dead woman telling no tales, Hamish may well be in over his head for he knows that secrets are dangerous, knowledge is power, and killers when cornered usually do strike again.

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3 of 5 stars

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More like 2.5 stars. Not bad, but moved too slow and the plot wasn't enough to fuel the story and and the characters were nothing more than faintly interesting filler. I liked Hamish MacBeth though, he's an interesting enough character that the story wasn't a complete wash.

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