As a fan of the BBC series “Hamish Macbeth,” I was happy to see we had the newest in this series. Written by M.C.Beaton, Hamish is a local officer in the northern Scotland town of Lochdubh. In “Death of Yesterday” he must solve a series of murders that are occurring in and around his home base. The murders, it appears, are being committed by a local, who although not very clever, is very lucky in eluding the long arm of the law.
Although there are several murders, the descriptions are not very graphic. What moves this story along is the setting and the local characters. Beaton has written more than 25 books in this series, so she knows her characters very well. Unfortunately, the book gets almost silly towards the end which is not a good thing in a mystery novel.
Maybe I should read one of the earlier books in this series; starting at number 28 was not a good choice.