num_pages: 245
description: Scottish policeman tall Hamish Macbeth gets repeated forebodings. Newcomer alluring Catriona Beldame supplies herbs to Lochdubh village men wanting to exercise marital rights their wives deny. Hamish threatens to kill her finds her slashed; her house burns up as he leaves. Someone from her murdering past or interfering present has taken revenge. Three other stabbings follow finally a pair of scissors descend on the back of his old reporter friend Elspeth after she writes baiting horoscopes your sin will find you out .. curb your .. violent rages. Romance also beckons from Strathbane's former forensics expert Lesley Seaton who bats large very blue eyes and brings home-made dinner.
language: English
title: Death of a Witch
publisher: Hachette: Grand Central Publishing