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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.

Key facts about The Vicious Vet

M. C. Beaton wrote The Vicious Vet, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1993. The book has 224 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312939458 to find the main one.

The Vicious Vet is book 2 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 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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