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A review by slferg
Death of a Travelling Man by M.C. Beaton
4.0
Hsmish MacBeth is not pleased when he discovers a "traveller" with his mobile home parked in the village. For some reason, this man really disturbs him. He feels Sean is bad news and will cause serious problems in the district. And this presentiment seems to be coming true as Sean persuades the rector and his wife to let him park behind their house. Then some of the women in the village begin to act strangely = not at all their normal selves. The women include Mrs Wellington (the rector's wife), the doctor's wife and Jessie Curry. Hamish is totally nonplussed. Priscilla has begun working at her father's hotel in the gift shop and is also very wary and distrustful of Sean. He makes her extremely nervous.
Then Sean turns up in his mobile home with his head bashed in. Someone was very upset with him, but who was upset enough to do him in? or rather, who wasn't? The girl he brought with him when he first came has departed in a snit, but did she come back? Or was it one of the other women?
Hamish discovers a video that Sean made and realizes he was blackmailing several people. But who was mad enough to kill him? Hamish must find out before he has to turn the damning clues over to the Strathbane police.
Things are not helped by his assistant hanging around the Italian restaurant and the beautiful Lucia, always showing her how to clean things better - or rather, doing them himself. Lucia has caused quite a stir among the single men of the village, who can't figure out what they said wrong as she quits "walking out" with them.
Then Sean turns up in his mobile home with his head bashed in. Someone was very upset with him, but who was upset enough to do him in? or rather, who wasn't? The girl he brought with him when he first came has departed in a snit, but did she come back? Or was it one of the other women?
Hamish discovers a video that Sean made and realizes he was blackmailing several people. But who was mad enough to kill him? Hamish must find out before he has to turn the damning clues over to the Strathbane police.
Things are not helped by his assistant hanging around the Italian restaurant and the beautiful Lucia, always showing her how to clean things better - or rather, doing them himself. Lucia has caused quite a stir among the single men of the village, who can't figure out what they said wrong as she quits "walking out" with them.