Hamish Macbeth · Book 28
Death of Yesterday
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 296
- ISBN-13
- 9781455504756
- Type
- novel
About this book
M. C. Beaton's Death of Yesterday (2013) is the twenty-eighth entry, the first of two Hamish Macbeth novels she published that year, continuing a comic register that had stayed remarkably consistent for nearly thirty years.
Its place in Hamish Macbeth
Death of Yesterday is book 28 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Kingfisher. It is followed by Death of a Liar. 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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