Agatha Raisin · Book 2

The Vicious Vet

by M. C. Beaton

Published
1 January 1993
Pages
224
ISBN-13
9780312939458
Type
novel

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About this book

"The Vicious Vet" is the second installment of M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin mysteries, published in 1993 and running 224 pages. Like the rest of the series, it drops the vain, competitive former PR woman back into the gossip, jealousy and body count of village life in Carsely, with her on-and-off entanglement with neighbor James Lacey never far from the plot.

Its place in Agatha Raisin

The Vicious Vet is book 2 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Quiche of Death. It is followed by The Potted Gardener. 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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