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Death of a Greedy Woman

The Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, Book 8

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Death of a Greedy Woman

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
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A classic title from M. C. Beaton’s New York Times best-selling Hamish Macbeth series

Peta Gore is the bane of her friend’s otherwise successful life. Maria Worth has come to hate her old friend - a noisy, vulgar glutton. There is no other way to describe Peta. She doesn’t just “have a good appetite” - she sucks and chomps and chews with relish. Not only are her table manners horrifying, but she has a habit of showing up at Maria’s carefully planned singles’ gatherings and spoiling everything by flirting with all the men. This time Maria is determined to keep her latest event a secret.

The gathering is to be at Tommel Castle Hotel in the remote Scottish village of Lochdubh - the perfect setting for a particularly difficult group. Nothing can go wrong. Except that somehow Peta finds out about the gathering and shows up, thoroughly disgusting everyone. Guests and staff band together in mutual loathing. But does someone hate her enough to kill her? When she is found dead, an apple stuck unceremoniously in her mouth, Constable Hamish Macbeth is on the scene. With a castle full of odd suspects, the lazy, long-limbed constable has to put his wooing of the hotel proprietress, Priscilla, on hold to solve the case.

©2011 M. C. Beaton (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Cozy Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Traditional Detectives Modern Women
Engaging Mystery • Humorous Storyline • Excellent Voice Artist • Lovable Protagonist • Quick Paced Plot
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Every book is always enjoy. I love the way Hamish just tells it like it is and can give an insult sweetly. Cracks me up.

Hamish is always great!

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loved this book. cannot wait to read others. a very delightful series to listen to

great

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The narration was great, and the story moves at a quick pace. This is a great Saturday afternoon romp.

Hamish McB 'stories are good fun.

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My title is because the story involves a glutton. M.Beaton is very descriptive in her character and so the reading can make you feel sort of sick. A good thing- sort of……

It was sort of disgusting

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I enjoy reading murder mysteries and trying to solve them before the conclusion. This one has so many suspects that it kept me guessing.

A Little More Difficult To Solve

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Another character who is overboard just like the practical joker of the last story! A character study and winding way to figure out who the culprit was!

Wowza

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Other than the oddity of so many murders happening around one person, which is fairly standard for the genre, it’s a delightful series. I never feel like the outcome is too predictable.

Fun characters

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I really enjoy the story and the characters. Great writer. Will be sad when series is completed.

I love this series

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Another group of oddball characters to be in the suspect pool of the newest mystery case. The victim was definitely portrayed as one everyone wanted to murder. In fact she was so disgusting I gave the story only 4 stars as it was not pleasant to read! But the overall story was very good.

Hammish is the best

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Hamish asked the chef why he hit his wife and he said she asked for the ketchup (paraphrasing here). I lol’d. When I set before my husband what I consider one of my better creations that took a lot of effort and looks beautiful on the plate he invariably looks up and says where’s the ketchup…. 😂 As others have mentioned, having read many of her books that dear Ms. Chesney has an aversion to the obese but also for many other things, people. Her books are satire and not meant to be taken seriously. They remind me of off beat fiction like The world According to Garp or Forest Gump. I think she was an observer of human nature, found the absurdity in it, exaggerated it in entertaining stories. I’m glad she did. Narrator is perfect for this series.

Funniest Line in Story

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