Agatha Raisin · Book 9

The Witch of Wyckhadden

by M. C. Beaton

Published
1 January 1999
Pages
196
ISBN-13
9780312204945
Type
novel

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About this book

"The Witch of Wyckhadden" (1999, 196 pages) is the ninth book in the Agatha Raisin series, following "The Wizard of Evesham" 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 Witch of Wyckhadden is book 9 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Wizard of Evesham. It is followed by The Fairies of Fryfam. 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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