Death of a Witch - Hamish Macbeth (Paperback)

M. C. Beaton (author)

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Paperback 320 Pages / Published: 01/08/2013

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Returning from holiday Hamish becomes unaccountably worried - it's as if he senses a dark cloud of evil hanging over Lochdubh. He soon learns that there is a newcomer to the village, a woman called Catriona Beldame, and that the villagers have decided she is a witch.

At first Hamish is charmed by her, but is dismayed when he finds out she's been supplying dangerous potions to certain local people. No one seems willing to listen to his warnings and when she is found murdered, poor Hamish is the prime suspect. Obviously, he must solve the murder to clear his own name and bring contentment back to his beloved Lochdubh.

Praise for the Hamish Macbeth series:

'First rate... deft social comedy and wonderfully realized atmosphere.' Booklist.

'It's always a special treat to return to Lochdubh.' New York Times Book Review.

'The detective novels of M. C. Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status.' Anne Robinson, The Times.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781472105431
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 225 g
Dimensions: 196 x 133 x 21 mm

M. C. Beaton

A favourite with Waterstones booksellers, Scottish author M (Marion).C (Chesney). Beaton actually began her career in a bookshop, working in the fiction department of John Smith & Sons Ltd in Glasgow. After working for several years as a journalist, she moved to the United States and began writing regency romances. After penning more than a hundred, she decided to turn her hand to detective fiction, writing under the name M.C. Beaton and wrote the first of her popular Hamish Macbeth series before – in the early nineties – starting her best-known series Agatha Raisin about a retired advertising executive with a talent for solving crime.

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