Wedding bells - and murder - are in the air for Hamish in M.C. Beaton's 25th Hamish Macbeth mystery.

The quiet village of Braikie doesn't have much to offer apart from a place of rare beauty called Buchan's Wood, which the tourist board has rechristened 'The Fairy Glen'. It isn't long before coach tours begin to arrive but then a kingfisher is found hanging from a branch with a noose around its neck.

Roaring into town in her Porsche, BBC reporter Crystal French's arrival is heralded by a speeding ticket from Constable Macbeth. Out of revenge, her first show insults the whole village. But when Crystal turns up dead, the entire village becomes suspect.

Dr Frederick Gilchrist's cheap rates & penchant for pulling teeth have gained him a clientele. But only agony could drive Lochdubh policeman Hamish Macbeth to Gilchrist's surgery. And the day it does, Macbeth finds Dr Gilchrist's body.

M.C. Beaton's much loved and international best-selling series of murderous doings in the Highlands of Scotland continues with Hamish Macbeth investigating the death of a woman who may not have been quite as adorable as she appeared.

Mrs Gillespie disrupts the quiet life of Hamish Macbeth when he wins her maid services in a raffle. He fears she's more likely to snoop than clean. But Macbeth has more upsetting issues to ponder - his former girlfriend is back in the village.

Patricia Martyn-Broyd, now in her 70s, has retired to the Highlands. She hasn't written a word in years and her books are out of print. But now a television company is about to film her last detective story, featuring the aristocratic Scottish detective Lady Harriet Vare.

Trouble is afoot in the remote fishing village of Stoyre, where the inhabitants are acting a little fishy. With the help of sharp-eyed journalist Elspeth Grant and his dog Lugs, Hamish Macbeth begins to winkle out the truth when a holiday cottage is flattened following an explosion.

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small Highlands village of Cronish. She has been brutally attacked and a dangerous criminal is on the loose...but on further investigation it would appear she was lying about the crime. When the same woman calls Hamish back a few days later about an intruder in her house, he takes her claim with a pinch of salt - only this time it would appear she was telling the truth as her...

There are many ruined castles in Scotland. One such lies outside the village of Drim. Hamish begins to hear reports that this castle is haunted and lights have been seen there at night, but he assumes it's some children or maybe the local lads going there to smoke pot, or, worse, inject themselves with drugs. Hamish says to his policeman, Charlie 'Clumsy' Carson, that they will both spend a night there. The keening wind explains the ghostly noises,...