In the meandering 36th Hamish Macbeth mystery (after 2022’s Death of a Green-Eyed Monster), the second collaboration between Beaton (1936–2019) and Green, Hamish, a police sergeant stationed in the ...

The charming latest collaboration between Beaton, who died in 2019, and Green (after Death of a Spy) finds Scottish police sergeant Hamish Macbeth dreaming of a peaceful winter with his sweetheart, ...

At the start of bestseller Beaton’s winning 30th Agatha Raisin mystery (after 2018’s The Dead Ringer), Albert Morrison, the chairman of an English company that manufactures batteries, hires PI Agatha ...

In Beaton’s disjointed, implausible 28th Agatha Raisin mystery (after 2017’s The Witches’ Tree), the visit of charismatic Anglican bishop Peter Salver-Hinkley to the Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna ...

Only established fans will enjoy M.C. Beaton's Death of a Bore: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery, this predictable series' soporific 21st installment (after 2004's Death of a Poisoned Pen), in which the ...

In bestseller Beaton's mildly entertaining 17th Agatha Raisin mystery (after 2005's The Perfect Paragon), Agatha still carries a torch for her ex-husband, James Lacey, who invites her on holiday after ...

Tetchy Agatha Raisin's attempt at a little R&R in the wake of her beloved husband's defection to a French monastery gets her revved up for another mystery when she hears that a fellow vacationer was ...

In bestseller Beaton’s devilishly droll 24th mystery to feature police constable Hamish Macbeth (after 2008’s Death of a Gentle Lady), the Scottish Highlands’ most stubborn (and romantically ...

In M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House, the Cotswolds village sleuth investigates the murder of the owner of a supernaturally challenged house-and meets a handsome new neighbor. Besides ...

Now ensconced in the Cotswolds village of Carsely, wealthy middle-aged amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin discovers that opening a detective agency isn't as easy as it seems in M.C. Beaton's The Deadly ...