Books by M C Beaton
M C Beaton is the author of the bestselling Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth mystery series. The 25th Hamish Macbeth adventure was published earlier this year, and the 21st Agatha Raisin mystery, Busy Body, comes out in October. She has also written more than 100 historical romances.
Perhaps the modern book series that most closely resembles The Thursday Murder Club—in featuring a well-heeled female heroine aged 50+ living in the English countryside and in being a parody of the murder-mystery genre—is by MC Beaton, who sadly died last year. Her detective is former PR executive Agatha Raisin, and the first book in the series is called The Quiche of Death. To me, the Agatha Raisin books are hilarious. I read all of them when my kids were tiny and I was home without other adult company a lot. Like The Thursday Murder Club, these are books that offer light-hearted escapism.
From our article Books like The Thursday Murder Club
Interviews with M C Beaton
The Best Cosy Mysteries, recommended by M C Beaton
North Scotland is wonderful countryside, a marvellous setting for a murder. The wind just screams from horizon to horizon – it’s like living in a speeded-up nature film. You open up the kitchen door and catch a passing sheep…
