A Spoonful of Poison
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 276
- ISBN-13
- 9780312349127
- Type
- novel
About this book
"A Spoonful of Poison" (2008, 276 pages) is the nineteenth book in the Agatha Raisin series, following "Kissing Christmas Goodbye" and, like its neighbors, built around Agatha's brash, hard-drinking style of amateur detection amid the quaint but murder-prone village of Carsely.
Key facts about A Spoonful of Poison
A Spoonful of Poison is a novel by M. C. Beaton. Readers have had it since 2008. It runs to 276 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of A Spoonful of Poison. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312349127 to find the main one.
A Spoonful of Poison is book 19 of 38 in the Agatha Raisin series. The series has 38 published books. However, the series starts with The Quiche of Death (1992).
Additionally, M. C. Beaton writes The Six Sisters, Hamish Macbeth and A House for the Season, plus 6 more series. Those series sit on our historical romance, cozy mystery and historical mystery shelves. Meanwhile, Death of a Groom is the latest published M. C. Beaton book on file, from 10 February 2026.
About M. C. Beaton
M. C. Beaton was the pen name of Marion Chesney, a Scottish-born author who wrote prolifically across romance and mystery before finding her signature register with two long-running cozy mystery series set worlds apart in tone and geography. See every M. C. Beaton book in order.
Its place in Agatha Raisin
A Spoonful of Poison is book 19 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows Kissing Christmas Goodbye. It is followed by There Goes the Bride. See the full Agatha Raisin reading order.
Agatha Raisin is a brash, hard-drinking, sharp-tongued former London PR executive who retires early to the impossibly quaint Cotswolds village of Carsely expecting a peaceful life — and instead finds a body practically on arrival. M. C. Beaton built the series around a heroine who is deliberately unlikeable in the traditional cozy sense: vain, competitive, prone to disastrous crushes (most enduringly on her handsome neighbor James Lacey), and far more comfortable interrogating suspects than making friends. That…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781410410078
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312349127