![]() Loch Ness Monster experts react to 'best footage for 20 years'.While there were inevitable comparisons to Trainspotting, which had been released just two years earlier, and featured two of the same actors, the mini series was praised for its boldness in portraying the bleak reality of heroin addiction and the severity of the AIDS epidemic that gripped Thatcher-era Edinburgh. Jo Jo, it seems, has aspirations to become Edinburgh’s answer to Scarface, and with equally dire repercussions. With Carlyle playing the lead role, the series, which was directed by late local filmmaker John Mackenzie, centres around the changing fortunes of the troubled John Joseph (Jo Jo) McCann, an already hardened criminal, who creates a drugs empire. READ MORE - Shoppers at Tesco and Sainsbury's issued with a £279 bill warning Lauded for its excellent writing, killer soundtrack, and a formidable cast, that included the likes of Robert Carlyle and Kevin McKidd, the hard hitting 1998 series was filmed on location, with many viewers taken aback to see the inclusion of real Edinburgh council estates that had seldom appeared on film before. And as the culprit strikes again, Hamish must quickly find the right killer - or script the wrong finale to a show gone murderously awry.Following the exploits of a habitual thief-turned-drug dealer in 1980s Edinburgh, Looking After JoJo was one of BBC Scotland’s most-watched television dramas of all-time. Yet, going behind the scenes, Hamish soon finds a town full of locals bitten by the movie bug and a cast of quarreling show business types, all harboring their own secrets, lies, and hidden agendas. The initial suspect in the killing is one Patricia Martyn-Broyd, the aging mystery writer furious that her musty old cozies are getting a risque face-lift in their TV reincarnation. and culminates in the sudden appearance of one very real corpse. Before long bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery. He gets his wish - and more - when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clamors into the nearby town of Drim. With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. DEATH OF A SCRIPTWRITER: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDS ![]() ![]() This is book number 14 in the A Hamish Macbeth Mystery series.ĭeath of a Gossip (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #1) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Cad (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #2) (Mass Market):ĭeath of an Outsider (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #3) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Perfect Wife (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #4) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Hussy (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #5) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Snob (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #6) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Prankster (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #7) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Greedy Woman (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #8) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Travelling Man (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #9) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Charming Man (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #10) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Nag (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #11) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Macho Man (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #12) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Dentist (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #13) (Mass Market):ĭeath of an Addict (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #15) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Dustman: A Hamish MacBeth Mystery (Hardcover):ĭeath of a Celebrity (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #18) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Poison Pen (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #19) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Bore (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #20) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Dreamer (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #21) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Maid (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #22) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Gentle Lady (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #24) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Valentine (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #25) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Chimney Sweep (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #26) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Kingfisher (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #27) (Mass Market):ĭeath of Yesterday (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #28) (Mass Market):ĭeath of a Policeman (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #29) (Large Print / Hardcover):ĭeath of a Liar (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #30) (Hardcover):ĭeath of a Nurse (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #31) (Hardcover):ĭeath of a Ghost (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #32) (Mass Market):ĭeath of an Honest Man (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #33) (Large Print / Hardcover):ĭeath of a Green-Eyed Monster (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery #34) (Large Print / Hardcover):ĭeath of a Traitor (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery) (Hardcover):įrom the author of the Agatha Raisin television series.
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