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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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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.

Key facts about Sugar and Spite

M. C. Beaton wrote Sugar and Spite, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2025. The book has 250 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781250378569 to find the main one.

Sugar and Spite is book 38 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

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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