Death of a kingfisher
(2012)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/BEATON,M

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Mysteries MYSTERY/BEATON,M Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Grand Central Pub., [2012]
©2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

245 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780446547369, 0446547360
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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