Death of a Perfect Wife

Summary

Hamish Macbeth, the laid-back constable of Lochdubh,Scotland, has a new Land Rover to drive and a Highland summer to savor, but asfast as rain rolls in from the loch, his happy life goes to hell in ahandbasket.

The trouble begins when his beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythereturns from London—with a fiancé on her arm. His miseries multiply when cloudsof midges, the diabolical Scottish mosquito, descend on the town. Then aparagon of housewifery named Trixie Thomas moves into Lochdubh with her lapdoghusband in tow. The newcomer quickly convinces the local ladies to embracelow-cholesterol meals, ban tobacco, and begin bird-watching. Soon the town’sfish-and-chips-loving men are up in arms.

Now faced with the trials of his own soul, Macbethmust solve Lochdubh’s newest crime: the mysterious poisoning of the perfectwife.