Death of a Greedy Woman

The Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 8

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

A classic title from M. C. Beaton’s New York Times best-selling Hamish Macbeth series

Peta Gore is the bane of her friend’s otherwise successful life. Maria Worth has come to hate her old friend - a noisy, vulgar glutton. There is no other way to describe Peta. She doesn’t just “have a good appetite” - she sucks and chomps and chews with relish. Not only are her table manners horrifying, but she has a habit of showing up at Maria’s carefully planned singles’ gatherings and spoiling everything by flirting with all the men. This time Maria is determined to keep her latest event a secret.

The gathering is to be at Tommel Castle Hotel in the remote Scottish village of Lochdubh - the perfect setting for a particularly difficult group. Nothing can go wrong. Except that somehow Peta finds out about the gathering and shows up, thoroughly disgusting everyone. Guests and staff band together in mutual loathing. But does someone hate her enough to kill her? When she is found dead, an apple stuck unceremoniously in her mouth, Constable Hamish Macbeth is on the scene. With a castle full of odd suspects, the lazy, long-limbed constable has to put his wooing of the hotel proprietress, Priscilla, on hold to solve the case.

©2011 M. C. Beaton (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Hamish is always great!

Every book is always enjoy. I love the way Hamish just tells it like it is and can give an insult sweetly. Cracks me up.

Hamish McB 'stories are good fun.

The narration was great, and the story moves at a quick pace. This is a great Saturday afternoon romp.

It was sort of disgusting

My title is because the story involves a glutton. M.Beaton is very descriptive in her character and so the reading can make you feel sort of sick. A good thing- sort of……

great

loved this book. cannot wait to read others. a very delightful series to listen to

A Little More Difficult To Solve

I enjoy reading murder mysteries and trying to solve them before the conclusion. This one has so many suspects that it kept me guessing.