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Agatha Raisin · Book 5

The Murderous Marriage

by M. C. Beaton
Published
1 January 1996
Pages
207
ISBN-13
9780312145385
Type
novel
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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.

Key facts about The Murderous Marriage

The Murderous Marriage is a novel by M. C. Beaton. Readers have had it since 1996. It runs to 207 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of The Murderous Marriage. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312145385 to find the main one.

The Murderous Marriage is book 5 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 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…

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