# Death of an Addict

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- Book: [Death of an Addict](https://www.bookquiver.com/mc-beaton/death-of-an-addict) ([Death of an Addict.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mc-beaton/death-of-an-addict.md))
- Authors: [MC Beaton](https://www.bookquiver.com/mc-beaton)
- Publisher: c_r_crime
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4901-229-4
- Published: 2009-07-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Are drugs responsible for a sighting of Nessie's long lost relative? Recovering addict Tommy Jarret has just rented a chalet to check out reports of a sea monster near the village of Drim. But when he turns up dead, apparently from a drug overdose, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth finds the lad's demise to be particularly fishy . . . and not of the local salmon variety. Deciding to go undercover, Hamish infiltrates the illicit drug trade in nearby Strathbane. But his scheme springs a leak when he's teamed up with a tough Glaswegian detective inspector named Olivia Chater, aka Concrete Knickers. For the lanky lawman investigating drugs and sea monsters it's time to sink or swim - and it would be equally dangerous to flounder . . . or fall in love. Praise for M. C. Beaton: 'The books are a delight: clever, intricate, sardonic and amazingly true to the real Highlands' Kerry Greenwood 'It's always a special treat to return to Lochdubh' New York Times