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Violence
Barely any
A murder of a bully; some physical intimidation depicted; the village's relief is the context
Language
None
No strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Alcohol in the pub context
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
The specific mechanism of a bully who makes everyone's life worse until something stops him; Hamish's analysis of who had both reason and opportunity
What this book is about
A large, aggressive stranger named Edie Aubrey arrives in Lochdubh and makes it his project to intimidate and bully everyone in the village, particularly picking on men he considers weak. When he is found dead, Constable Hamish Macbeth investigates — but the problem is that almost everyone in the village had sufficient reason. M.C. Beaton's eleventh Hamish Macbeth novel is the most directly about physical intimidation and the specific culture of masculine aggression, and uses the bully's death to examine what communities do when the mechanism of mutual protection fails.
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eleventh Hamish Macbeth novel by M.C. Beaton
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