Death of a groom / M.C. Beaton and R.W. Green.

By:

Beaton, M. C [author.]

Contributor(s):

Green, R. W. (Novelist) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Beaton, M. C. Hamish Macbeth mysteries ; Publisher: New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2026Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: xi, 222 pages 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1538774755
9781538774755

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Detective and mystery fiction.

DDC classification:

813.54 23

Summary: "It is February and the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh is dealing with heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth can handle the weather, but with a surprise influx of high-society visitors for a Valentine's Day wedding at Tommel Castle Hotel, he has bigger problems. The guest list includes not one, but two women from his own romantic past! And Hamish isn't the only one disrupted by the arrival of the wedding party. The groom--the supposedly suave and sophisticated Darius Palmerston--is involved in a series of incidents in the local pub. Tensions between guests and villagers escalate until, shortly after the lavish wedding ceremony, a body is found in the hotel dining room"-- Provided by publisher.

List(s) this item appears in: New Adult Fiction

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	New Books	FIC BEATON	Checked out	03/06/2026	36748002639963

Total holds: 1

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth returns to protect his sleepy Scottish village of Lochdubh in the latest mystery in M.C. Beaton's beloved, New York Times bestselling series.

It is February and the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh is dealing with heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth can handle the weather, but with a surprise influx of high-society visitors for a Valentine's Day wedding at Tommel Castle Hotel, he has bigger problems.

The guest list includes not one, but two women from his own romantic past! And Hamish isn't the only one disrupted by the arrival of the wedding party. The groom--the supposedly suave and sophisticated Darius Palmerston--is involved in a series of incidents in the local pub. Tensions between guests and villagers escalate until, shortly after the lavish wedding ceremony, a body is found in the hotel dining room.

The gruesome killing means Hamish suddenly has a murder investigation on his hands, one with a very long list of suspects.

"It is February and the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh is dealing with heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth can handle the weather, but with a surprise influx of high-society visitors for a Valentine's Day wedding at Tommel Castle Hotel, he has bigger problems. The guest list includes not one, but two women from his own romantic past! And Hamish isn't the only one disrupted by the arrival of the wedding party. The groom--the supposedly suave and sophisticated Darius Palmerston--is involved in a series of incidents in the local pub. Tensions between guests and villagers escalate until, shortly after the lavish wedding ceremony, a body is found in the hotel dining room"-- Provided by publisher.

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Kirkus Book Review

When a groom is slain on his wedding day, the suspects are snowed in. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth of Lochdubh, Scotland, who's had several near-misses in the marriage mart, still remains friendly with his ex-girlfriends. Coincidentally, two of them are on hand for the high-society wedding of Alannah Hamilton and Darius Palmerston. The wedding site is the Tommel Castle Hotel, skillfully run by Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, one of the exes. The wedding, though small, is great for the hotel, as the bride's father, Charles Hamilton, has spent a fortune to make it grand. Another of Hamish's exes, reporter Elspeth Grant, arrives in a helicopter with her boss, a Hamilton family friend. A local seer who warns that the wedding must not take place tells tales of witches and death, and Elspeth, who has the gift of second sight, has seen a bloody death. It all comes true when, after the cake-cutting, Darius is killed with his own sword. With most of the local police involved in a drug bust and the senior officer ending up in the hospital just before a major snowstorm, it falls to Hamish to investigate. He soon identifies a plethora of suspects. Darius and his best friend, who spent years pretending to be soldiers, gadding around Europe and spending their inheritances, are now broke. The bride seemed to prefer the man who looks after the family's horses, and the groom his wife's stepmother. Alannah's bridesmaid vanishes and turns up murdered. The pool of possible killers ranges from peers to band members. Since most of them hated Darius, it won't be easy for Hamish to pick out a killer or two. The delightfully stubborn and opinionated hero solves the case and may even find a bride of his own. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.