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Agatha Raisin · Book 13

The Case of the Curious Curate

by M. C. Beaton
Published
1 January 2003
Pages
221
ISBN-13
9780312990619
Type
novel
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About this book

Published in 2003 at 221 pages, "The Case of the Curious Curate" 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 The Case of the Curious Curate

M. C. Beaton wrote The Case of the Curious Curate, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2003. The book has 221 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312990619 to find the main one.

The Case of the Curious Curate is book 13 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

The Case of the Curious Curate is book 13 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Day the Floods Came. It is followed by The Haunted House. 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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