A Scottish highland village cop investigates the murder of a notorious and unpleasant tabloid reporter. Hamish Macbeth must determine which of the many people she exposed as having guilty secrets was provoked enough to strangle and drown her. Alongside Hamish, a naive secretary and an aristocratic beauty lend their help to catch the killer.

Death of a Gossip

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 Gossip

M. C. Beaton