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M C Beaton
The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotlandis sleeping with the fishes, or–more accurately–dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remain of the murdered victim…
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A former employer’s bequest of GBP5,000 has allowed spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and enjoy traveling the English countryside by coach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym in…
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M C Beaton, R W Green
Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again.
Agatha Raisin's private detective agency has…
From a New York Times bestselling author, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth faces a string of mysterious robberies that are only the beginning of an international threat to his sleepy Scottish village…
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From a New York Times bestselling author, a murder, a missing man, and his newest constable's secret past are all that's standing in the way of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth's relaxing…
A dead employer’s legacy of GBP5,000 allows spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and find adventure traveling the English countryside by coach. But the adventure soon finds Miss Pym…
G. M. Malliet
The Agatha Award-winning St. Just Mystery series
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Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again in Dead on Target.
A visit…
In this addition to a New York Times bestselling mystery series, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--investigates the disappearance of a local woman who is more than she…
"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with--crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is…
A former employer’s legacy of GBP5,000 has allowed spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and enjoy traveling the English countryside by coach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym in…
Lady Jane Winters, society widow and gossip, is found dead at an angling school in Scotland. Who wouldn’t want her shrills silenced? Local policeman, Hamish Macbeth is suspicious. With the…
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A former employer’s legacy of GBP5,000 has allowed charming spinster Hannah Pym to give up her housekeeping work and to travel the English countryside, where she encounters adventure and many…
Bringing Regency England vibrantly to life, the fifth volume in the Poor Relation series follows the escapades of Colonel Sandhurst as he helps a young woman avoid an unwanted marriage.
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Scotland’s lovable Hamish Macbeth–the one-man village police force–investigates the death of an actress and a television writer in this latest episode in the popular series.
Life is not easy for the poor relations of England’s upper crust, but fate and clever schemes bring them together. Lady Fortescue and Colonel Sandhurst hatch a plan: What if…
James Harrison has recently moved to a restored hunting lodge in Sutherland with his gorgeous private nurse Gloria Dainty. When Hamish visits Mr. Harrison to welcome him to the neighborhood…
Life is finally looking up for the poor relations. The Prince of Wales’ coat of arms gleams over the hotel entrance. All but one of the rooms are filled by…
Originally published: New York: St. Martin’s Press, c1987.
Originally published: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
M. C. Beaton’s New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth series continues with a new mystery featuring Scotland’s most quick-witted but unambitious policeman.
A bullying tyrant with a neat uniform and a new truck, Lochdubh’s dustman, Fergus Macleod, issues harsh fines and enforces petty rules–until he is found dead, stuffed into a recycling…
The New York Times bestselling Traveling Matchmaker series begins with a Regency tale of seductive subterfuge–from the author of the Agatha Raisin novels
A dead employer’s legacy of five thousand…
A former employer’s legacy of GBP5,000 has allowed spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and find adventure traveling the English countryside by coach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym…
Originally published: as by Marion Chesney. Sutton, Surrey: Severn House, 2005.
The eighth in the Agatha Raisin murder mysteries complete with brand new cover design.
The tenth in the Agatha Raisin murder mysteries complete with brand new cover design
Celebrating 20 years of Agatha Raisin-brand-new bonus story included –Cover.
Invited to spend a seaside vacation with her ex-husband, James Lacey, at a rundown town called Snoth-on-Sea, Agatha Raisin becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a woman staying…
Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of Highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, may actually marry at last–that is, until a murderous Valentine’s Day mystery…
Includes excerpts from Death of a policeman, Death of yesterday, and Death of a nag.
M. C. Beaton
Scottish detective Hamish Macbeth investigates the slaying of a mystery writer who dares to complain about a television adaptation of her books that turns her aristocratic heroine into a marijuana-smoking…
Garbage collectors are still called dustmen in Britain. When Lochdubh’s dustman, an abusive drunk named Fergus MacLeod, is put in charge of the recycling center, Constable Hamish Macbeth smells trouble…
Travel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery from the author of the Agatha Raisin series. Death of a Liar: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
Sergeant Hamish…
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth, Scotland’s most quick-witted but unambitious policeman, returns in Beaton’s newest installment in her New York Times -bestselling series.
Returning to the humdrum routine of her home, Agatha Raisin finds herself falling for charming new neighbor Paul Chatterton and becomes involved in the investigation of a believed-haunted house and…
The Blood of an Englishman continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton’s beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series–now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.
Fee, fie, fo, fum…
Previously published as Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet –Title page verso.
With a cold in his head and no place to go for Christmas, Hamish snaps up the invitation of drop-dead gorgeous Jane Wetherby to spend the holiday at her Scottish…
When the residents of Lochdubh begin receiving poison pen letters, no one takes them seriously. But Constable Hamish Macbeth fears them, and his instincts prove correct when the postmistress is…
To bring in tourists, the quaint Scottish village of Braike markets its woods as The Fairy Glen, and tours soon begin to arrive. However, after a kingfisher is found hanging…
The Agatha Raisin mysteries, book 7 –Container.
