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Death of an Addict (2001)

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The Hamish Macbeth Mysteries #15Author: M.C. BeatonReader: Shaun GrindellLength 5.8 hrs • Unabridged ℗ 2014 by Blackstone Audio, Inc.Hamish uses his 2 weeks off the beat in the Scottish Highlands to pursue drug lords following the death of a young drug addict. Hamish takes an unexpected step into the drug world impersonating a druglord then realizes his need for department assistance to back his claims. A female Detective Inspector is sent out from headquarters. They head to Amsterdam, making acquaintances and impressions that lead to deep and dangerous peril back in Scotland.High adventure ensues when their cover is blown and villains take the upperhand. Great twists keep the story moving to a satisfying conclusion and readers can look forward to more of Hamish Macbeth's Highland adventures.Shaun Grindell does an excellent job creating personalities for the wide cast of characters. His voice is age perfect for Hamish as well as his authentically portrayed Highland accent. Grindell's timing and speech rhythm is exceptional in delivering Beaton's wit and humour adding much to the enjoyment of listening to the story.Blackstone's recording is clear and uninterrupted .Appreciation to Blackstone Audio and Audio Jukebox for the mp3 for review.AUTHOR BIO :M. C. Beaton has won international acclaim for her bestselling Hamish Macbeth mysteries and the Agatha Raisin mystery series. She is also the author of more than one hundred romance titles and a series of romantic suspense novels, the Edwardian Mystery series. Born in Scotland, she now divides her time between Paris and the English Cotswolds.READER BIO :Shaun Grindell was born and raised in Southampton, England. His training includes the Calland School of Speech and Drama and the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in London. He has been seen on stage in London and Las Vegas and currently resides in New England with his wife.

I'm a huge fan of M.C. Beaton (Marion Chesney) and I'm currently working my way through her Hamish Macbeth series. I've read a lot of them before, but not for several years and so am enjoying revisiting some. This book, however, wasn't one of them.I wasn’t such a huge fan of this book. I think a lot of the “cosy” charm of the Hamish Macbeth books is because he is a highland copper going about his business, sometimes stumbling over the truth, sometimes guessing. But this book turned him into an undercover, globe-trotting sleuth and the blundering, guessing and sheer good luck just didn’t work. It was going okay until that moment too.Basically this story came across as if two ideas were put together and, for me, they didn’t work. The story went off on a tangent to add spice and adventure and excitement… then snapped back to the original story to “tidy up” and finish. To me, it came across as another story badly stapled into the middle of a typical Macbeth tale. Didn’t work.Hoping the next book in the series returns to the old, tried and true format.

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Hamish is back at it in this book only unlike normal, he isn't trying to narrow a large field of who wanted to do it, but looking for the actual killer. In spite of being told it is an overdose and that the case is closed, Hamish can't let it go. He is sure that there is something funny going on. This doesn't mean that he works diligently on the case, but in his own style of side trips and romantic entanglement he stumbles onto the truth almost by accident. In this book you do get to find out how much the village he loves returns that love. All in all a pretty good read and one that makes a good addition to a long running series.
—Dj

I liked this book for all the reasons my mother didn't.Beaton moves the series out of Lochdubh and we see that PC Hamish McBeth is just as good as fish out of water as he is in.When a recovering drug addict is found dead of an apparent overdose, Hamish can't leave the case alone.Soon he's following the drug trail out of the village and to Strathbane, a city ith projects and a drug problem. Police there tell Hamish the case is one less junkie to deal with, but then the village bobby starts making ties to the drug trade with the city cops haven't been able to do. Soon he's undercover, playing a druglord, with a lovely but cold sergeant as his wife.I love that Hamish got out Lochdubh and Beaton addresses a real crime problem. My mom missed the friendly village and the petty squabbles that lead to the main crime in earlier books in this series.I think you'll either like this one or hate it.
—Andreasoldier

Like the book where Hamish catches notorious criminal Gentleman Jim, this is one of Beaton's more suspenseful stories. Despite several very satisfying scenes, however (such as Hamish's use of a lie to get the Currie sisters in line), there were just as many moments that required considerable suspension of disbelief.In particular, I was a bit frustrated by the characterization of of Olivia. To my mind, she warmed to and forgave Hamish far too quickly for one to believe -- even in a Hamish Macbeth story. I cannot fathom a woman recovering and forgiving as quickly and completely as Beaton would have us believe Olivia does.Oddly enough, this treatment of yet another would-be feminist gives me new respect for Priscilla (or perhaps I mean Beaton's development of her). Whatever repeated shortcomings she shows in choice of men, Priscilla doesn't compromise her standards as quickly as do almost all the other woman-of-marriageable-age in Beaton's books. She maintains a rare sense of who she is that's not substantially changed by circumstances or what her personality might cost her -- which makes her a far more interesting and believable character.Olivia remains a fairly likeable character even the end (though the final scene seemed a bit much), but I would have liked her better had Beaton maintained her complexity through to the end.
—Anna

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