Death of a Kingfisher - M. C. Beaton

A Scottish policeman in the small town of Lochdubh has resisted promotions that would take him to the big city, preferring his highland home and landscape despite the antagonism of his supervisor.

This is a series with a number of BBC episodes based on Hamish MacBeth, a bachelor (and from the descriptions a desirable male) who lives with his too fat partner and his dog and a wild cat.

It is not a thriller detective novel and even the detection is pretty elementary in this edition, but it is breezy and filled with characters that carry the adventure along.  It begins with the death of an actual Kingfisher and as a bird watcher, that was enough to get me started.  This birds death actually sustains the first three chapters, but then people start to die - lots of them, one after the other and Hamish, despite the obstacles of his own department continues on the case.

Does he come up with the right answer?  That is for you to figure out.  Do the guilty get punished - a little.

Fun and light reading, but not a series that I would become addicted too - yet, for a summer read - go for it.