Hamish Macbeth · Book 38
Death of a Groom
- Published
- 10 February 2026
- Pages
- 196
- ISBN-13
- 9781538774755
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of a Groom (2026), the most recent entry at 196 pages, follows Death of a Smuggler as R. W. Green's ongoing continuation of Hamish Macbeth's story keeps the constable exactly where he wants to be: in the Highlands, avoiding promotion.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Groom is book 38 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Smuggler. See the full Hamish Macbeth reading order.
Constable Hamish Macbeth is the laziest ambitious man in the Scottish Highlands: a lanky, red-headed village policeman in the fictional coastal town of Lochdubh who works hard at exactly one thing, staying a lowly constable, because promotion would mean a desk in Strathbane and losing the poaching, fishing and gossiping that make his unhurried life worth living. M. C. Beaton (the pen name of Marion Chesney) built the series as the gentler, more whimsical sibling to her later Agatha Raisin books: the crimes are…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781538774755
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781408722732
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