Hamish Macbeth · Book 36

Death of a Spy

by M. C. Beaton

Published
1 January 2024
Pages
192
ISBN-13
9781408718551
Type
novel

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Cover of Death of a Spy

About this book

R. W. Green carried the series forward from Beaton, who created it, with Death of a Spy (2024), the thirty-sixth entry, keeping Hamish's running feuds and unpromoted contentment intact.

Its place in Hamish Macbeth

Death of a Spy is book 36 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Traitor. It is followed by 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…

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