HAMISH MACBETH FULL

It didn’t matter if she was writing Hamish Macbeth, Agatha Raisin, or her regency romances, every one of her books was filled with warmth and humour and a deviously satirical eye.

HAMISH MACBETH FULL

Val McDermid remembered her “generous and wicked sense of humour and her intention was to enjoy life to the full for as long as she had it.” And Stuart McBride, a close friend of Beaton’s, told the Guardian: “Marion will be missed, not just by her friends and family, but by the millions of people who loved her writing. “To keep writing in clear well-balanced sentences takes a lot of hard work and if anyone doesn’t want a Glasgow kiss, swallow that opinion and put it where the sun don’t shine.”Ĭrime authors paid tribute to Beaton. Nobody calls Agatha Christie cosy,” she told the Crime Hub in 2019. “It is patronising and implies that my books, which are easy to read, must be easy to write. But the novelist, who was born in Glasgow, was not a fan of the “cosy” moniker. Beaton, a pseudonym for Marion Chesney Gibbons, was widely known as the queen of cosy crime, selling more than 21m copies of her books around the world and regularly being named the most borrowed adult author from UK libraries.

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