Agatha Raisin · Book 3

The Potted Gardener

by M. C. Beaton

Published
1 January 1994
Pages
196
ISBN-13
9780312109271
Type
novel

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Cover of The Potted Gardener

About this book

Published in 1994 at 196 pages, "The Potted Gardener" continues Agatha Raisin's run of cozy Cotswolds murders, with M. C. Beaton's trademark mix of village fetes, sharp comic timing, and a heroine more interested in being right and being noticed than in playing detective for anyone's benefit but her own.

Its place in Agatha Raisin

The Potted Gardener is book 3 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Vicious Vet. It is followed by The Walkers of Dembley. 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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