Agatha Raisin · Book 11

The Love from Hell

by M. C. Beaton

Published
1 January 2001
Pages
229
ISBN-13
9780786238620
Type
novel

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About this book

"The Love from Hell" appeared in 2001 as the eleventh Agatha Raisin mystery, 229 pages long. The series' formula holds here as elsewhere: a body turns up in idyllic Carsely, and Agatha investigates as much to prove herself right as out of any civic-minded impulse.

Its place in Agatha Raisin

The Love from Hell is book 11 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Fairies of Fryfam. It is followed by The Day the Floods Came. 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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