A murder mystery set during Christmas on a Scottish island health farm. Hamish Macbeth accepts an invitation from a woman who believes someone is trying to kill her and finds himself surrounded by threatening locals and hostile guests, including a snobbish Heather Todd who meets a untimely end. With all guests in the house at the time of the murder, Hamish must use his sleuthing skills, even while battling a cold, to solve the case before Christmas is ruined.

Death of a Snob

In the Scottish Highlands remote village of Lochdubh, in the real county of Sutherland, tall thin red-haired hazel-eyed quietly clever police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth solves murders. Although Lochdubh and neighbouring Strathbane are fictional, other places are real.

Death of a Snob

M. C. Beaton