num_pages: 224
description: Hamish Macbeth, the laid-back constable of Lochdubh, Scotland, has a new Land Rover to drive and a Highland summer to savor, but as fast as rain rolls in from the loch, his happy life goes to hell in a handbasket. The trouble begins when his beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe returns from London . . . with a fiancé on her arm. His miseries multiply when clouds of midges (the diabolical Scottish mosquito) descend on the town. Then a paragon of housewifery named Trixie Thomas moves into Lochdubh with her lapdog husband in tow. The newcomer quickly convinces the local ladies to embrace low-cholesterol meals, ban tobacco, and begin bird-watching. Soon the town's fish-and-chips-loving men are up in arms. Now faced with the trials of his own soul, Macbeth must solve Lochdubh's newest crime-the mysterious poisoning of the perfect wife.
language: English
title: Death of a Perfect Wife
titlecomplete: Death of a Perfect Wife (Hamish Macbeth, #4)
characters: Hamish Macbeth, Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Chief Inspector Blair, Jimmy Anderson
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Scotland, Cozy Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Humor, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 8808
places: Sutherland, Scotland
series: Hamish Macbeth 
publisher: St. Martin's Press