Agatha Raisin · Book 34

Down the Hatch

by M. C. Beaton

Published
1 January 2021
Pages
121
ISBN-13
9781665036993
Type
novel

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Cover of Down the Hatch

About this book

"Down the Hatch" (2021, 121 pages) is one of the Agatha Raisin novels written by R. W. Green, who took over the series after M. C. Beaton's death in 2019 -- with Beaton's blessing, having already ghostwritten several of her late novels -- continuing Agatha's Cotswolds detective work at the same brisk pace and with no real change in tone.

Its place in Agatha Raisin

Down the Hatch is book 34 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows Hot to Trot. It is followed by Devil's Delight. 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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