Where to Start with M.C. Beaton
- Best entry point → Lady Fortescue Steps Out
- What readers keep coming back to → Hiss and Hers
- Highest rated by readers → Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue (Poor Relation #5)
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Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue
Poor Relation • Book 5
by Marion Chesney, M.C. Beaton
★ 3.93 Goodreads (2.4K ratings) - 2
Sir Philip's Folly
Poor Relation • Book 4
by Marion Chesney, M.C. Beaton
★ 3.91 Goodreads (2.5K ratings) - 3
Lady Fortescue Steps Out
Poor Relation • Book 1
by Marion Chesney, M.C. Beaton
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Widowed Lady Fortescue converts her grand home into the Poor Relation hotel, serving the society she's fallen from. Chesney's Regency comedy examines class through entrepreneurial desperation.
★ 3.78 Goodreads (6.4K ratings) - 4
Mrs. Budley Falls from Grace
Poor Relation • Book 3
by Marion Chesney, M.C. Beaton
★ 3.86 Goodreads (2.9K ratings) - 5
Miss Tonks Turns to Crime
Poor Relation • Book 2
by Marion Chesney, M.C. Beaton
★ 3.81 Goodreads (3.9K ratings) - 6
Hiss and Hers
Agatha Raisin • Book 23
by M.C. Beaton
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Amateur detective Agatha Raisin organizes a charity ball to impress her gardener crush, only to find him murdered when he doesn't show. Beaton serves up cozy mystery with her usual dose of romantic chaos.
★ 3.67 Goodreads (9.1K ratings) - 7
Sick of Shadows
Edwardian Murder Mysteries • Book 3
by Marion Chesney, M.C. Beaton
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Lady Rose Summer befriends newly arrived Miss Dolly Tremaine just before the woman turns up stabbed and floating in the Serpentine River. Chesney layers Edwardian social mores over a murder plot where appearances consistently deceive.
★ 3.68 Goodreads (3.0K ratings)