Agatha Raisin · Book 5
The Murderous Marriage
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 207
- ISBN-13
- 9780312145385
- Type
- novel
About this book
In this 1996 entry, the fifth 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 Murderous Marriage" runs 207 pages.
Its place in Agatha Raisin
The Murderous Marriage is book 5 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Walkers of Dembley. It is followed by The Terrible Tourist. 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 9780312145385