Something Borrowed, Someone Dead
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 291
- ISBN-13
- 9780312640132
- Type
- novel
About this book
In this 2013 entry, the twenty-fourth in M. C. Beaton's long-running series, Agatha Raisin turns her sharp tongue and competitive streak on another Cotswolds murder, aided -- or exasperated -- by her long-suffering staff Toni and Simon and her friend Sir Charles Fraith. "Something Borrowed, Someone Dead" runs 291 pages.
Key facts about Something Borrowed, Someone Dead
Something Borrowed, Someone Dead is a novel by M. C. Beaton. Readers have had it since 2013. It runs to 291 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Something Borrowed, Someone Dead. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312640132 to find the main one.
Something Borrowed, Someone Dead is book 25 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
Something Borrowed, Someone Dead is book 25 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows Christmas Crumble. It is followed by The Blood of an Englishman. 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 9780312640132