Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Careful! Bad table manners can be dangerous to your health..as can joining a dating club it would seem….
Death of a Glutton (Hamish Macbeth 8)
What you need to know before your trail
Her table manners were a crime. But she didn’t deserve to die! There’s not a cloud in Hamish Macbeth’s sky – just plenty of warm sunshine but not quite enough of the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe. But as eight hopeful members of the Checkmate Singles Club converge on Tommel Castle Hotel for a week of serious matchmaking, the clouds roll in.
The four couples, carefully matched by dating director Maria Worth, immediately dislike one another. And the arrival of Maria’s gross, greedy business partner, Peta, kills the last vestige of romance. And as love goes out the window, murder comes in the door.Peta soon slurps up her last meal and Hamish is left with the baffling puzzle: Who shared the fateful outing that left Peta dead with a large rosy red apple in her mouth…
Travel Guide
Hamish Macbeth country
Tommel Castle Hotel
“Tommel Castle was a terribly expensive hotel and she expected the best of service”
The hotel might be close to the village of Lobloch and since this is fictional, as if the Checkmate singles club, you can see the appeal of people coming up to the beautiful highlands to try and find some love amongst the mountains and the heather! This could be a hotel not unlike Tommel Castle Hotel in the novel – Duncraig for example
Lochdubh
Constable Hamish Macbeth lives in the fictitious town of Lochdubh in Sutherland, Scotland
The TV version – Plockton
The series was filmed on location in the village of Plockton, the town of Kyle of Lochalsh and the surrounding area. The booktrail is a mix of the two.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Death of a Glutton (Hamish Macbeth 8)
Author/ Guide: MC Beaton Destination: Sutherland, Plockton, Lochdubh (Fictional ) Departure Time: 2000s
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