M.C. Beaton

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born

Glasgow, The United Kingdom

gender

female

website

http://www.agatharaisin.co.uk/

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Also writes as:
Marion Chesney (real name)
Jennie Tremaine
Sarah Chester
Helen Crampton
Ann Fairfax
Marion Gibbons
Charlotte Ward

M. C. Beaton has been hailed as "the new Queen of Crime." She is the New York Times bestselling author of the Agatha Raisin mysteries, which began with The Quiche of Death and also include As the Pig Turns and Busy Body, set in the English Cotswolds, as well as the Hamish Macbeth mysteries set in Scotland. She has also written historical romance novels and an Edwardian mystery series under the name Marion Chesney. Before writing her first novels, Beaton worked as a bookseller, a newspaper reporter, a fashion critic, and a waitress in a greasy spoon. Born in Scotland, she currently divides her time between Paris and a...more

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Books by M.C. Beaton

Average rating: 3.69 · 53,140 ratings · 4,738 reviews · 133 distinct works

	The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 2,582 ratings — published 1992 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 1,987 ratings — published 1984 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Death of a Cad (Hamish Macbeth, #2) 3.75 avg rating — 1,452 ratings — published 1987 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin, #2) 3.69 avg rating — 1,574 ratings — published 1993 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener (Agatha Raisin, #3) 3.71 avg rating — 1,506 ratings — published 1994 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage (Agatha Raisin, #5) 3.72 avg rating — 1,282 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley (Agatha Raisin, #4) 3.68 avg rating — 1,333 ratings — 14 editions	My rating:
	Death of an Outsider (Hamish Macbeth, #3) 3.75 avg rating — 1,152 ratings — published 1988 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Death of a Snob (Hamish Macbeth, #6) 3.71 avg rating — 1,121 ratings — published 1991 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (Agatha Raisin, #8) 3.70 avg rating — 1,107 ratings — 12 editions	My rating:

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Series by M.C. Beaton

Hamish Macbeth (28 books)
by M.C. Beaton

3.72 avg rating — 25,431 ratings

Agatha Raisin (22 books)
by M.C. Beaton

3.67 avg rating — 23,694 ratings

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Quotes by M.C. Beaton

“A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.”
― M.C. Beaton

tags: agatha-raisin , age

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“Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.”
― M.C. Beaton, As The Pig Turns

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“Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.”
― M.C. Beaton, Love, Lies and Liquor

tags: height , love , women

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Kissing Christmas Goodbye by M.C. Beaton

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