Jealousy prompts Agatha Raisin to visit therapist Jill Devant, who has attracted the attention of Agatha’s ex-husband, James Lacey, in bestseller Beaton’s lively 26th cozy featuring the remarkably ...

Only established fans will enjoy M.C. Beaton's Death of a Bore: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery, this predictable series' soporific 21st installment (after 2004's Death of a Poisoned Pen), in which the ...

In 1982, Hope Dellon, who had been an editor at St. Martin’s since 1975, was approached by agent Barbara Lowenstein about a series of Regency romances, the Six Sisters. As Dellon recalls, the proposal ...

Marion Chesney, who in midlife began writing novels and produced more than 150, including mystery series written under the pseudonym M.C. Beaton that featured the endearing crime solvers Agatha Raisin ...

Bestseller Beaton’s disappointing 23rd Agatha Raisin mystery (after 2011’s As the Pig Turns) finds Agatha moony over gardener George Marston, a former soldier who relocated to the Cotswolds after he ...

At the start of Beaton's enjoyable 22nd Hamish Macbeth mystery (after \t\t 2006's Death of a Dreamer), the lovable \t\t Scottish constable stumbles over the body of a gossipy housecleaner, Mrs. Mavis ...

The indestructible Agatha Raisin, still at the top of her game in her darkly droll 17th whodunit (after Love, Lies and Liquor), is feeling woefully middle-aged after hiring Toni Gilmour, an endearing ...