Agatha Raisin · Book 16
The Perfect Paragon
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 234
- ISBN-13
- 9780786280049
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Perfect Paragon" appeared in 2005 as the sixteenth Agatha Raisin mystery, 234 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 Perfect Paragon is book 16 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Deadly Dance. It is followed by Love, Lies and Liquor. 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 9780786280049