Although she has been a resident of the sleepy village of Lochdubh for only a year, in that time Kate has alienated one too many of its residents with her interfering-and not entirely well-intentioned-ways.

Kate Hibbert is all too eager to lend a hand to her neighbors. Beaton's beloved, New York Times bestselling series. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth-Scotland's most quick witted but unambitious policeman-is back to investigate the disappearance of a local woman who is more than she seems, in this new mystery in M.C.