Agatha Raisin · Book 27

Agatha's First Case

by M. C. Beaton

Published
1 January 2015
Pages
39
ISBN-13
9781250084316
Type
novella

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About this book

"Agatha's First Case" (2015) is a short prequel novella, running just 39 pages, set during Agatha Raisin's PR career in London before she ever moves to Carsely. Published as book 25½, it works as an origin story for readers who want to see Agatha before the village and the murders, though it reads fine picked up at its publication slot too.

Its place in Agatha Raisin

Agatha's First Case is book 27 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Blood of an Englishman. It is followed by Dishing the Dirt. 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…

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