Scottish, darkly humorous, thrilling - M. C. Beaton's cult series makes its debut in German. Lochdubh, a small village in the Scottish Highlands. Here, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth enjoys a quiet life far from the hustle and bustle. The good-natured village policeman has a reputation for being notoriously lazy - something Hamish would never deny. However, when the owner of the local fishing school reels in the body of one of his students, Hamish's days of idleness come to an end, and he must investigate. It turns out that the victim - a certain Lady Jane - was not a lady at all, but a sharp-tongued gossip columnist with many enemies, even among the fishing students. A seemingly unsolvable case, but then Hamish comes up with a brilliant idea on how to unmask the murderer. The first volume of the Hamish Macbeth crime series by the bestseller author.