Agatha Raisin · Book 38

Sugar and Spite

by M. C. Beaton

Published
1 January 2025
Pages
250
ISBN-13
9781250378569
Type
novel

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Cover of Sugar and Spite

About this book

"Sugar and Spite" (2025, 250 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

Sugar and Spite is book 38 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows Killing Time. 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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