Agatha Raisin · Book 22

As the Pig Turns

by M. C. Beaton

Published
1 January 2011
Pages
292
ISBN-13
9780312387020
Type
novel

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Cover of As the Pig Turns

About this book

"As the Pig Turns" is the twenty-second installment of M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin mysteries, published in 2011 and running 292 pages. Like the rest of the series, it drops the vain, competitive former PR woman back into the gossip, jealousy and body count of village life in Carsely, with her on-and-off entanglement with neighbor James Lacey never far from the plot.

Its place in Agatha Raisin

As the Pig Turns is book 22 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows Busy Body. It is followed by Hiss and Hers. 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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