Hamish Macbeth · Book 29
Death of a Liar
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN-13
- 9781780331096
- Type
- novel

About this book
Death of a Liar (2013), the twenty-ninth book at 272 pages, is the second entry Beaton released that year, Hamish once again more interested in his Highland routines than in the case landing on his desk.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Liar is book 29 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of Yesterday. It is followed by Death of a Policeman. 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 9781780331096
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781780331119