Death of a perfect wife
Hamish Macbeth is savouring the delights of a Highland summer, but as fast as the rain rolls in from the loch, things starts to unravel. The trouble begins when his beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe returns to Lochdubh with a new fiance. His miseries multiply when clouds of midges descend on the town. And then a paragon of housewife perfection named Trixie Thomas moves into Lochdubh with her browbeaten husband in tow. The newcomer quickly convinces the local ladies to embrace low-cholesterol meals, ban alcohol and begin bird-watching. Soon the town's menfolk are up in arms and Macbeth must solve Lochdubh's newest crime - the mysterious poisoning of the perfect wife.