Hamish MacBeth #13 set in the Scottish highlands in the fictional village of Lochdubh. Hamish wakes up with a toothache—owwwwww!—and makes an appointment with a dentist in a village a few miles away rather than drive all the way to Strathbane. He ends up canceling the appointment because it feels better later in the day after a shot of antibiotic and some aspirin from the local doctor, but when the pain returns he reschedules it despite hearing some unsettling rumors about the dentist. However, when he arrives at the dentist’s office, he finds Dr. Gilchrist dead in his own dentist’s chair, almost certainly murdered, and as usual, suspects start crawling out of the woodwork. I really really enjoyed this installment of Hamish, maybe because I had taken several months off from reading one. Or maybe because the cozy, cup-o-tea and scones read was just what I needed after reading/listening to two rather violent and bleak books! At any rate, it was one of those reads you finish and give a big sigh of contentment, even knowing that, yeah—it’s rather cheesy and not a very realistic rendition of life. ( )

Murder mystery that is part of a series that runs too long for my taste. The plot of this one is clever. ( )

Great cozy series. ( )