Agatha Raisin · Book 34

Down the Hatch

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

Key facts about Down the Hatch

Down the Hatch is a novel by M. C. Beaton. Readers have had it since 2021. It runs to 121 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Down the Hatch. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781665036993 to find the main one.

Down the Hatch is book 34 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

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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