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M.C. Beaton (1936-2019) was the author of both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, as well as numerous Regency romances. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages and have sold more than twenty-one million copies worldwide. She is consistently the most borrowed UK adult author in British libraries, and her Agatha Raisin books have been turned into a TV series on Sky.
No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime - Mail on Sunday A Beaton novel is like The Archers on speed - Daily Mail The detective novels of M C Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status - The Times The bucolic romantic entanglements sizzle . . . Beaton is like a less explicit Jilly Cooper . . . She also has a rebarbative wit that is worth any amount of gritty realism - Daily Telegraph
