Hamish Macbeth · Book 27
Death of a Kingfisher
- Published
- 1 January 2012
- Pages
- 245
- ISBN-13
- 9780446547369
- Type
- novel
About this book
The twenty-seventh book, Death of a Kingfisher (2012), runs 245 pages, another case where Hamish's talent for staying exactly where he is proves more useful than any ambition for rank.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Kingfisher is book 27 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Chimney Sweep. It is followed by Death of Yesterday. 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 9780446547369