Hamish Macbeth · Book 35
Death of a Traitor
- Published
- 1 January 2023
- Pages
- 201
- ISBN-13
- 9781538746745
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of a Traitor (2023), the thirty-fifth book, sits between Death of a Green-Eyed Monster and Death of a Spy, R. W. Green sustaining the Highland comic-mystery formula Beaton established nearly forty years earlier.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Traitor is book 35 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Green-Eyed Monster. It is followed by Death of a Spy. 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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