Only established fans will enjoy M.C. Beaton's Death of a Bore: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery, this predictable series' soporific 21st installment (after 2004's Death of a Poisoned Pen), in which the ...

When Hanover “Handy” Ebrington, the new owner of ramshackle Castle Drim, hears ghostly noises, Sgt. Hamish Macbeth investigates, in Beaton’s atmospheric 33rd mystery featuring the Lochdubh, Scotland, ...

The author of detective series featuring Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin has died, aged 83. Marion Chesney Gibbons, who wrote under the pen name MC Beaton, was an international best-seller whose ...

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M.C. Beaton, who has died aged 83, was the pen-name of Scottish author Marion Gibbons (née Chesney), who wrote mystery, romance and historical novels under a range of pseudonyms; in a career of just ...