Agatha Raisin · Book 8
The Wizard of Evesham
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 196
- ISBN-13
- 9780312198220
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1999 at 196 pages, "The Wizard of Evesham" 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 Wizard of Evesham is book 8 in the Agatha Raisin series. It follows The Wellspring of Death. It is followed by The Witch of Wyckhadden. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312198220