Sunday, January 17, 2016

Review: Death of a Nurse (Hamish Macbeth #31) by M.C. Beaton




  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • Print Length: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (Feb. 23 2016)
  • Sold by: Hachette Book Group Digital, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00Z7J7BCE




Book Description

M. C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth series continues with a new mystery featuring Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman.
 
James Harrison has recently moved to a restored hunting lodge in Sutherland with his gorgeous private nurse Gloria Dainty. When Hamish visits Mr. Harrison to welcome him to the neighborhood, the old man treats him very rudely. Gloria apologizes for her employer's behavior, and Hamish takes the plunge and invites her out for dinner. On the appointed evening, Hamish waits for Gloria at the restaurant. And waits. Gloria never shows up. Four days later, Gloria's body washes up on the beach near Braikie. Now without a date and without his former policeman Dick Fraser (who left the force to buy a bakery), Hamish must find out who killed the beautiful new resident of Sutherland, and why, before the murderer strikes again....


About the Author

Marion Chesney was born on 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any shorthand or typing, but quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter. After marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion went to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.

Anxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion, urged by her husband, started to write historical romances in 1977. After she had written over 100 of them under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, and under the pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester, she getting fed up with 1714 to 1910, she began to write detectives stories in 1985 under the pseudonym of M. C. Beaton. On a trip from the States to Sutherland on holiday, a course at a fishing school inspired the first Constable Hamish Macbeth story. They returned to Britain and bought a croft house and croft in Sutherland where Harry reared a flock of black sheep. But Charles was at school, in London so when he finished and both tired of the long commute to the north of Scotland, they moved to the Cotswolds where Agatha Raisin was created.


My Review

Death of a Nurse is the 31st book in the Hamish Macbeth mystery series by author M.C. Beaton. It is a very entertaining series and Death of a Nurse is a great addition.

All the usual suspects are back...Hamish and his dog and wild cat, his new partner Charlie, Daviot, Blair, Pricilla, her father...Dick and Anya have settled into life as bakery owners and partners...much to Hamish's horror. But Hamish does a lot of growing in Death of a Nurse. You'll be proud of him.

Rich landowner James Harrison is new to the neighbourhood...as is his beautiful nurse. Gloria Dainty, the nurse, has caught the eye of all the men in Lochdubh including Hamish. He invites her out to dinner and she never shows. Until of course her body is found...and the mystery begins.

Great tale that moves along at a brisk pace. Enjoyable read. Highly recommend.




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