Death of a kingfisher

About “Death of a kingfisher”

When Scotland is hit by the recession, Braikie's tourist director renames the local woods 'The Fairy Glen' and prints brochures with a photograph of a kingfisher, drawing coach tours. But a kingfisher is soon found hanging from a branch with a noose around its neck, and as vandalism threatens to ruin the town, Hamish Macbeth's investigation turns from animal cruelty to murder.