Agatha Raisin · Book 29

Pushing Up Daisies

Published
1 January 2016
Pages
267
ISBN-13
9781472117212
Type
novel
Cover of Pushing Up Daisies

About this book

Published in 2016 at 267 pages, "Pushing Up Daisies" continues Agatha Raisin's run of cozy Cotswolds murders, with M. C. Beaton's trademark mix of village fetes, sharp comic timing, and a heroine more interested in being right and being noticed than in playing detective for anyone's benefit but her own.

Key facts about Pushing Up Daisies

Pushing Up Daisies is a novel by M. C. Beaton. Readers have had it since 2016. It runs to 267 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of Pushing Up Daisies. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781472117212 to find the main one.

Pushing Up Daisies is book 29 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

Pushing Up Daisies is book 29 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows Dishing the Dirt. It is followed by The Witches' Tree. 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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