Hamish Macbeth · Book 22
Death of a Maid
- Published
- 1 January 2007
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN-13
- 9781597225052
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of a Maid (2007) is the twenty-second entry at 272 pages, continuing the series' gentle, whimsical register even as the crimes themselves stay genuinely consequential.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Maid is book 22 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Dreamer. It is followed by Death of a Gentle Lady. 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 9780759517509
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781602830219
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781597225052