#HAMISH MACBETH

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Wee Jock the 2nd in his very fetching glengarry and tie

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Just finished possibly my 100th rewatch of Hamish Macbeth and the anyelle shipper in me is reignited! But no one writes for Bellish anymore :( I've got some time to write, send me your prompts for Hamish and Belle?

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The Beginning of a New Book | Prologue & Chapter 1

Pairing: Bellish (Belle x Hamish Macbeth, from Hamish Macbeth)

Rating: E (Eventually)

Summary: After a dangerous breakup, Belle finds herself stuck in the little town of Lochdubh.

WARNING: This fic will contain major spoilers for season 2, episode 4 of Hamish MacBeth. It takes place shortly after that episode. It also contains Sergei Karpovich (Bobby from Human Trafficking) as the villain.

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I forgot to mention, in my Finlayposting, for the Robert Carlyle girlies, that the actor who plays the snobbish doctor-for-the-rich medical supervisor, is the one who played TV John McIver in Hamish Macbeth (and seeing him play such a different character here is interesting).

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Books of the Summer: May-Aug 2024

I'm back baby! These little blurbs at the top are usually where I put my disclaimer that these books are the ones I recommend, but not necessarily my favorites, and that particularly holds true for this summer when I consider a few that didn't make my list below: I read 20-something(!!) of the Hamish Macbeth mystery series, by M.C. Beaton, over June and July, and obviously I liked them because I just. kept going, but I also have several quibbles with them (e.g., twenty books and several years into the series, the main character is still "about 35"). I enjoyed them as something mostly brainless. Then in August, I read and very much enjoyed the Windrose Chronicles, by Barbara Hambly, a particular type of 80s portal fantasy, but in this case although my enjoyment was unalloyed, I feel like they're a rec for very specific circumstances or specific people. Anyway, thought both these series deserved some sort of honorable mention, but my official Books of the Summer are:

May

Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin): This is one of those tragedies where no one could have done anything different because of who they are as people, but even as you know what will happen from the beginning of the book, it's still worth reading to understand how. Also Baldwin is so good at writing. Not a happy book, but worth it.

June

Last Call at the Nightingale (Katharine Schellman): I'm recommending this one because it seems like I've seen (at least a few) people on the lookout for a good mystery set in the 1920s that is (queer) female-centric and not entirely trusting of cops, and this is definitely that. (Also the other book I saw being recced for that kind of thing was Dead Dead Girls, and I read it a little while ago and tbh was unimpressed with the writing.) I also read a few in another series by Schellman this summer, and I generally enjoy her mystery plots and attention to historical detail, while she also always makes sure she has a diverse cast of characters.

The Bellamy Trial (Frances Noyes Hart): A classic mystery (as in, published during the Golden Age), interesting in its trial formatting - the murder has happened, we're hearing everything in the courtroom sort of from the point of view of a pair of newspaper reporters. It's fun the way details are revealed.

July

The Ropemaker (Peter Dickinson): Did you know that Peter Dickinson was married to Robin McKinley? True power couple. I love The Ropemaker, I think I originally found my copy in a used book store with absolutely nothing to go on but the cover (it was years ago), and have read it several times. I particularly like that the main character doesn't have magic (and magic isn't entirely common in the fantasy world, though several other characters can do it), and she starts out feeling reasonably upset and left out, and then starts to realize that her own lack of magic is a particular, specific strength.

August

The Documents in the Case (Dorothy L. Sayers with Robert Eustace): I think I found this book by poking around the "Mysteries" section in a used book store, which is always a good way to find odd anthologies and Detection Club collections. This standalone mystery is, as it suggests, a collection of documents (mostly letters) meant to illuminate a mystery: handily, the son of the murdered man is collecting them and writes a little bit of analysis for us/the official to whom he is sending them, so we eventually get gaps in the story filled in. I particularly like the way that the nature of the medium means that every character is an unreliable narrator to some extent, and it takes a little reading before you can start to figure out who to trust more. I have read this a few times and always forget that it is kind of a chilling little story, in the end, but also really good!

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I'm going to the location of Hamish Macbeth tomorrow!!!!!

Yes, I might cry, bear with me tomorrow... or block me temporarily

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Shirley Henderson in 'A Pillar of the Community' episode of Hamish Macbeth (1995).

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Hamish x Belle moodboard

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The Lochdubh/Cicely Twin City Initiative

Because this idea from three years ago came crawling back into my brain at 2 a.m. this morning and refused to leave. Have some sleep-deprived headcanons of what a Lochdubh/Cicely sister city program would look like.

It’s Maurice’s idea, because of course it is.

Maggie and Joel are both on board with the idea, and are slightly horrified to learn they agree on something.

Lochdubh’s introduction to Cicely is “Welcome to Cicely: A Film by Ed Chigliak.” Cicely’s introduction to Lochdubh is Lachie Jr.’s pirate radio program.

Marilyn and the Lochdubh ladies immediately form a knitting circle.

Hamish doesn’t like Maurice. He and Holling hit it off right away, though.

Joel initially likes the idea of going to Scotland because travel! and culture! until he gets to Lochdubh and realizes he’s traded one town’s quirky eccentricities for another’s.

Chris sets up a system to take long distance phone calls on KBHR from Lochdubh. Everyone abuses this.

TV John can see One-Who-Waits. Joel has concerns. Ed does not.

Lachie finds out about Cicely’s local cryptid Adam, and immediately enlists Hamish to help catch him. Hamish goes along with it until Joel informs him that Adam is, in fact, a real person.

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The scariest bit of this scene for me is the angle Robert Carlyle's ankle bends at. Ouch.

Oops!

"We could have been at it!" Such a romantic, that Hamish!

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Brief Book Review - Death Of A Spy by M.C.Beaton with R.W.Green

A Brief Book Review of Death Of A Spy by M.C.Beaton with R.W.Green.

Released by Constable as a hardback in the United Kingdom on 22nd February 2024 - it's another adventure for Hamish Macbeth !

This is the 36th adventure for Hamish Macbeth with author R.W.Green , a fellow author and friend of the late M.C.Beaton continuing the tales of Hamish Macbeth and Lochdubh.

This time Hamish and his new assistant , James Bland , a cop/spy from America, are trying to track down a Russian spy ring , find out who is responsible for a spate of burglaries in Lochdubh as well as sorting out day to day trials and tribulations in Lochdubh.

Another great story , full of humour , intrigue and action. #bookreview #books #thriller #hamishmacbeth

Check out my review :

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