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 ...

Now ensconced in the Cotswolds village of Carsely, wealthy middle-aged amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin discovers that opening a detective agency isn't as easy as it seems in M.C. Beaton's The Deadly ...

In bestseller Beaton’s by-the-numbers 32nd Hamish Macbeth mystery (after 2015’s Death of a Liar), the Lochdubh, Scotland, police sergeant meets Gloria Dainty, a beautiful private nurse, and arranges a ...

The charming latest collaboration between Beaton, who died in 2019, and Green (after Death of a Spy) finds Scottish police sergeant Hamish Macbeth dreaming of a peaceful winter with his sweetheart, ...

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 ...

Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth tries to avoid a dreaded promotion while solving assorted crimes and crossing swords with pretty reporter Elspeth Grant in his episodic 18th outing (after 2002's ...

In Beaton’s disjointed, implausible 28th Agatha Raisin mystery (after 2017’s The Witches’ Tree), the visit of charismatic Anglican bishop Peter Salver-Hinkley to the Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna ...

Bestseller Beaton’s 25th Agatha Raisin cozy (after 2013’s Something Borrowed, Something Dead) opens stronger than it finishes. During a performance of an embarrassingly amateurish pantomime in the ...

At the start of Beaton's entertaining 22nd Agatha Raisin mystery (after 2010's Busy Body), Agatha has a run-in with an overzealous policeman, Gary Beech, who tickets her for basically nothing on a ...

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 ...

In bestseller Beaton’s disappointing 28th Agatha Raisin mystery (after 2016’s Pushing Up Daisies), Rory Harris, a vicar recently arrived from London, and his beautiful wife, Molly, are driving home ...