After his engagement is broken, Constable Hamish Macbeth books a rest in coastal Skag. But at dismal 'Friendly House' Bed & Breakfast, guests are amorous spinster Felicity Gunnery, tarty Cheryl and Tracey, retired military Andrew Biggar, secretive London family, and bully Bob Harris, who so nags wife Doris, that everyone wants to kill him. And someone does.