Beating About the Bush
- Published
- 1 January 2019
- Pages
- 1
- ISBN-13
- 9781538451885
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Beating About the Bush" appeared in 2019 as the thirtieth Agatha Raisin mystery, 1 pages long. The series' formula holds here as elsewhere: a body turns up in idyllic Carsely, and Agatha investigates as much to prove herself right as out of any civic-minded impulse.
Key facts about Beating About the Bush
Beating About the Bush is a novel by M. C. Beaton. Readers have had it since 2019. It runs to 1 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Beating About the Bush. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781538451885 to find the main one.
Beating About the Bush is book 32 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
Beating About the Bush is book 32 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Dead Ringer. It is followed by Hot to Trot. 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 9781538451885