Agatha Raisin · Book 32
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.
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