# Death of a Perfect Wife

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- Book: [Death of a Perfect Wife](https://www.bookquiver.com/mc-beaton/death-of-a-perfect-wife) ([Death of a Perfect Wife.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mc-beaton/death-of-a-perfect-wife.md))
- Authors: [MC Beaton](https://www.bookquiver.com/mc-beaton)
- Publisher: c_r_crime
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8033-205-5
- Published: 2011-06-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Hamish Macbeth is savouring the delights of a Highland summer, but as fast as the rain rolls in from the loch his happy life goes to hell in a handbasket. The trouble begins when his beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe returns to Lochdubh with a new fiancé on her arm. 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 cowed 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.