Within the South of Scotland, all residents tend to get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned whilst, in the isolated villages, the villagers rely on an itinerant sweep.

Police Constable Hamish Macbeth spots blood dripping onto the floor from above a villager's fireplace. But wait... then a dead body is found stuffed inside the chimney.

With the entire town certain that Pete is the culprit, Hamish is rather sceptical about this assumption. When Pete's body is then found dead on the Scottish moors, the plot thickens. Another one of Hamish's cases is to be uncovered and this time, the murderer may be even closer than he first realised.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781472124623
• Author: M C Beaton
• Publisher: Constable
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 280
• Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.3 x 2 cm