WITH more than 100 novels to her name – including the Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin series – MC Beaton is a one woman crime wave You might not be that familiar with the names of the writers Ann ...

The prolific author who created the much-loved Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin has died at the age of 83. Marion Chesney was the most borrowed British author for adults in UK libraries under her ...

“One day a baking competition, another a murder,” wrote Marion Chesney Gibbons in Death of a Celebrity, one of the Hamish Macbeth novels she published under the pseudonym MC Beaton. The quote perhaps ...

Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth tries to avoid a dreaded promotion while solving assorted crimes and crossing swords with pretty reporter Elspeth Grant in his episodic 18th outing (after 2002's ...

MARION Chesney Beaton admits she has no idea how many books she has written. The Hamish Macbeth author, who writes under the name MC Beaton, only realised she had lost count when she was told about a ...

M.C. Beaton, who has died aged 83, was the pen-name of Scottish author Marion Gibbons (née Chesney), who wrote mystery, romance and historical novels under a range of pseudonyms; in a career of just ...

The Hamish Macbeth books inspired a TV series in the 1990s and an adaptation of the Agatha Raisin stories is being filmed. KIDNAPPED by Robert Louis Stevenson; Penguin, £7.99 This really inspired me.