HARDCOVER BOOK - 1455558311 / 9781455558315
ELECTRONIC BOOK - 1455558338 / 9781455558339
Available in the U.S. Feb. 20, 2018
DESCRIPTION
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series.
DEATH OF AN HONEST MAN
Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul had moved to a house in Cnothan, a sour village on Hamish's beat.
He attended church in Lochdubh. He told the minister, Mr. Wellington, that his sermons were boring. He told tweedy Mrs. Wellington that she was too fat and in these days of increasing obesity it was her duty to show a good example. Angela Brody was told her detective stories were pap for the masses and it was time she wrote literature instead. He accused Hamish of having dyed his fiery red hair. He told Jessie Currie--who repeated all the last words of her twin sister--that she needed psychiatric help.
"I speak as I find," he bragged. Voices saying, "I could kill that man," could be heard from Lochdubh to Cnothan.
And someone did.
Now Hamish is faced with a bewildering array of suspects. And he's lost the services of his clumsy policeman, Charlie, who has resigned from the force after Chief Inspector Blair berated Charlie one too many times, and the policeman threw Blair into the loch. Can Hamish find the killer on his own?
Death of an Honest Man by M. C. Beaton
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
M. C. Beaton has won international acclaim for her New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth mysteries, and the BBC has aired twenty-four episodes based on the series. Beaton is also the author of the bestselling Agatha Raisin novels, which aired as an eight-episode dramatic series on PBS, starring Ashley Jensen. M. C. Beaton's books have been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in the Cotswolds. For more information, you can visit MCBeaton.com.
WEBSITE: http://www.mcbeaton.com/us/
TWITTER: @mc_beaton
FACEBOOK: @MCBeatonAuthor
PRAISE FOR M.C. BEATON:
“Satisfying for both established and new Macbeth fans.”
---Booklist
“Longing for escape? Tired of waiting for Brigadoon to materialize? Time for a trip to Lochdubh, the scenic, if somnolent, village in the Scottish Highlands where M.C. Beaton sets her beguiling whodunits featuring Constable Hamish Macbeth.”
---New York Times Book Review
“Hamish Macbeth is that most unusual character, one to whom the reader returns because of his charming flaws. May he never get promoted.”
---New York Journal of Books
“With residents and a constable so authentic, it won’t be long before tourists will be seeking Lockdubh and believing in the reality of Hamish Macbeth as surely as they believed in Sherlock Holmes.”
---Denver Rocky Mountain News
“Macbeth is the sort of character who slyly grows on you.”
---Chicago Sun-Times
“Beaton keeps this lighthearted series fresh.”
---Publisher’s Weekly
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