One more Hamish left.

I finished Death of a Maid, Death of a Gentle Lady, and A Highland Christmas this week. Gentle Lady was the latest novel, and it was great. I think it would make a good movie! The Christmas Story was a cute change of pace- no murders for Hamish to solve, just a missing cat and stolen Christmas lights. Death of a Maid was a good one, too. Now I only have Death of a Dreamer left...then a long wait for Death of a Witch!

So that's 45 books. I've started the Torchwood novel Something in the Water. It's interesting so far.

42!

No, that's not the answer to the big question- Life, the universe, and everything! :p That' the number of books I'm up to. I finished four more Hamish stories! Death of a Dustman, Death of an Outsider, Death of a Traveling Man, and Death of a Charming Man.

Death of an Outsider had one of the most gruesome murders in the series...dead man put in lobster tank, lobsters eat corpse, lobsters get sent all over the U.K. and are eaten....I'll never eat lobster again! Very good story.

Death of a Charming Man was a good one, too. I loved the ending- Hamish nearly gets it wrong! Once again, I figured out the killer early on.

I have four more Hamish stories, then it's a long wait until next February for Death of a Witch.

I also finally found the last two Torchwood novels, so I'll read them next, then back to more "serious" reading.

Two more!

Death of a Dentist was okay, not the greatest. Death of a Macho Man was better, and it kept me guessing!



I'm almost finished with Death of an Outsider, one of the first Hamish stories. It's a little bit gruesome. After that, I have Death of a Traveling Man.

I'm not addicted. No, really!

I can quit whenever I want! :p



I finished Death of an Addict last night. I think it may be my favorite. Good story with Hamish going undercover as a drug lord!

So that's book number 36...I'm reading Death of a Dentist and Death of a Macho Man next.

I'm up to 35!

I've read seven books in the past ten days- all of them Hamish Macbeth!

They were all good:

Death of a Scriptwriter

Death of a Prankster

Death of a Bore

Death of a Celebrity

Death of a Nag

Death of a Village

and I just finished Death of a Perfect Wife.

Death of a Scriptwriter was my favorite, I think. I wonder if M.C. Beaton was thinking of the Hamish Macbeth television series when she wrote it (it came out a year or so after the show was over)? I loved the show, but aside from Hamish himself, the episodes really didn't follow the books much. I doubt she was upset by the changes like the author in Scriptwriter was!

I figured out the killer in Death of a Nag early on...and I didn't want the killer to be who it was. Beaton is so good in creating characters that keep you guessing!

Death of a Bore was not my favorite of the lot. It had another murder victim I just couldn't feel sorry for!

I have eleven more Hamish books on my shelf waiting to be read. I'll read them all, then I want to start the Agatha Raisin series. Before I read those, though, I have Wings of the Dove (still haven't read it!) and Middlemarch to read.


I think I should revise my goal to 75 books for the year...

Number 28!

Death of a Glutton is finished. That was a really good one! Funny and a little bit gross (the glutton of the title reminds me of the world's fattest man in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life!), and it one of the most creative deaths in the Hamish series! And again, the murderer's identity wasn't obvious until the end. I love that kind of mystery.

Well, thanks to Hamish Macbeth, I will not only reach my goal of reading fifty books this year- I will probably exceed it! I'm going to read every one of the novels the library has, and start on the Agatha Raisin series, too.

More Macbeth!

I finished Death of a Poison Pen last night. Another good Hamish Macbeth mystery! I can't stop reading these books! I'm halfway through Death of a Glutton.