The author of detective series featuring Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin has died, aged 83. Marion Chesney Gibbons, who wrote under the pen name MC Beaton, was an international best-seller whose ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marion Chesney, who in midlife began writing novels and produced more than 150, including mystery series written under the pseudonym M.C. Beaton that featured the endearing crime solvers Agatha Raisin ...