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 ...

In 1982, Hope Dellon, who had been an editor at St. Martin’s since 1975, was approached by agent Barbara Lowenstein about a series of Regency romances, the Six Sisters. As Dellon recalls, the proposal ...

Now ensconced in the Cotswolds village of Carsely, wealthy middle-aged amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin discovers that opening a detective agency isn't as easy as it seems in M.C. Beaton's The Deadly ...

Ugly Betty actress Ashley Jensen will return to play the titular heroine, who is based on the books by best-selling author MC Beaton, for a eight new stand alone episodes Get daily headlines and ...

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.

Meet the most borrowed adult British author from UK public libraries – Cotswolds crime writer MC Beaton, whose detective Agatha Raisin has been called “as much of a national treasure as Miss Marple or ...

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