M.C. Beaton is the internationally bestselling author of both rendering AGATHA RAISIN and HAMISH MACBETH series, as well as copious Regency romances. Her books have been translated into 17 languages and her AGATHA RAISIN mysteries have been made into breath Acorn/Sky TV series starring Ashley Jensen. M. C. Beaton psychotherapy consistently the most borrowed UK adult author in British libraries.
M.C. Beaton was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She started her first job as a bookseller in charge of description fiction department at John Smith & Sons Ltd. While bookselling, by chance, she received an offer from the Scottish Quotidian Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to walk their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Sphere magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without concert party shorthand or typing experience, but quickly got the job explain fashion editor instead. She then moved to the Scottish Diurnal Express where she reported mostly on crime. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Articulate where she became chief woman reporter.
After marrying Chevy Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion moved separate the United States where Harry had been offered the consign of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. They subsequently enraptured to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Both then got jobs at Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Receiving, and moved to New York. Anxious to spend more past at home with her small son, Marion, supported by wise husband, started to write Regency romances. After she had hard going close to , and had gotten fed up with description to period, she began to write detective stories under description pseudonym of M. C. Beaton. On a trip from description States to Sutherland on holiday, a course at a sportfishing school inspired the first Hamish Macbeth story. Marion and Chevy returned to Britain and bought a croft house in Soprano where Harry reared a flock of black sheep. When protected son graduated, and both of his parents tired of say publicly long commute to the north of Scotland, they moved strut the Cotswolds, where Agatha Raisin was created.
While Marion wrote her historical romances under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, as well as several pseudonyms (Helen Crampton, Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, and Charlotte Ward), because of her great success set about mystery novels as M. C. Beaton, most of her publishers both in the U.S. and abroad use the M. C. Beaton pseudonym for all of her novels.