Hamish Macbeth · Book 24
Death of a Witch
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 245
- ISBN-13
- 9780446196130
- Type
- novel

About this book
Death of a Witch (2009), the twenty-fourth entry at 245 pages, sits between Death of a Gentle Lady and Death of a Valentine, folklore and Highland superstition coloring another of Hamish's reluctant investigations.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of a Witch is book 24 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Gentle Lady. It is followed by Death of a Valentine. 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 9780446196130
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446544092
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781597229036