Death of a Kingfisher

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Call Number: Mystery / Beaton, M. C.
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Beaton, M. C.	4-week checkout	On Shelf

When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesn't have much to offer, other than a place of rare beauty called Buchan's Wood, which was bequeathed to the town. The savvy local tourist director renames the woods "The Fairy Glen," and has brochures printed with a beautiful photograph of a kingfisher rising from a pond on the cover. It isn't long before coach tours begin to arrive. But just as the town's luck starts to turn, a kingfisher is found hanging from a branch in the woods with a noose around its neck. As a wave of vandalism threatens to ruin Braikie forever, the town turns to Hamish Macbeth. And when violence strikes again,the lawman's investigation quickly turns from animal cruelty to murder.

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channeling Le Carre? submitted by camelsamba on June 25, 2019, 10:40pm Elspeth is engaged yet again? Who has had more engagements at this point, Hamish or Elspeth?

I may be going easy on Beaton by giving this 3 stars, but I'm still on the rebound from *Death of a Valentine* (which was dreadful). All the gruesome deaths connected to a Russian oligarch make me wonder if the author was trying to channel Le Carré (e.g. Our Kind of Traitor). Similar to the wife who bounced from Brazil to Florida in the previous book, the psychopath children are dragged out too long in this one. Will the cliffhanger characters appear in a future book? I suspect so.