Death of a Chimney Sweep

Title: Death of a Chimney Sweep
Author: M.C. Beaton
Published: 2011
Genre: Murder mystery
Pages: 228


One more of the Hamish Macbeth -books! Wohoo! One of the newest ones, becaaause I read the list the wrong way. D'oh.

The book opens with an English Captain Davenport found stuffed into the chimney of his house. Not very much alive. The obvious suspect is the chimney sweep, working in the house that day. And then the bodycount starts to go up faster and higher than I've rarely seen outside of war or disaster movies. I honestly lost count. Deaths per page ratio is very high with this one.

Hamish, again, has to try and solve the murders before there are more, and to do it so that he won't get a promotion out of his beloved Lochdubh. And it's not easy, not with such a ruthless and inventive murderer.

These books are so fast and fun to read! And they're pretty cheap, even in the local book shops. And I've still got over 20 more to read! Lovely.


   "He swept the horizon with his binoculars, first towards Western Fearn Point on the Kyle of Sutherland and across the kyle to Creich Mains and then focussed them on the burnt-out wreck of a car far down one of the braes below, just before he was preparing to put the binoculars away.
   His eyes sharpened as he adjusted the focus. He could see a black mass inside the wreckage which looked like a body; a little way away on the heather was one shoe."