Agatha Raisin · Book 4

The Walkers of Dembley

by M. C. Beaton

Published
1 January 1995
Pages
170
ISBN-13
9780804113588
Type
novel

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Cover of The Walkers of Dembley

About this book

"The Walkers of Dembley" (1995, 170 pages) is the fourth book in the Agatha Raisin series, following "The Potted Gardener" and, like its neighbors, built around Agatha's brash, hard-drinking style of amateur detection amid the quaint but murder-prone village of Carsely.

Its place in Agatha Raisin

The Walkers of Dembley is book 4 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Potted Gardener. It is followed by The Murderous Marriage. 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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