Hamish Macbeth · Book 31
Death of a Nurse
- Published
- 1 January 2016
- Pages
- 284
- ISBN-13
- 9781455558254
- Type
- novel

About this book
M. C. Beaton's Death of a Nurse (2016) is the thirty-first book, 284 pages, one of her later entries in a series that by then had run for over three decades without losing its sly comic tone.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Nurse is book 31 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Policeman. It is followed by Death of a Ghost. 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
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