The Deadly Dance
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 233
- ISBN-13
- 9780312304362
- Type
- novel
About this book
In this 2004 entry, the fifteenth 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. "The Deadly Dance" runs 233 pages.
Key facts about The Deadly Dance
The Deadly Dance is a novel by M. C. Beaton. Readers have had it since 2004. It runs to 233 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Deadly Dance. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312304362 to find the main one.
The Deadly Dance is book 15 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 Deadly Dance is book 15 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Haunted House. It is followed by The Perfect Paragon. 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 9780312304362