There may be trouble ahead...so will Agatha face the music? & can the feisty Agatha cut it as a private investigator? She soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler novel. But then in walks wealthy divorcee Catherine Laggat-Brown & Agatha is given her first real case. Death threats blackmail & physical attack soon follow & once again Agatha is off scouring the countryside for clues & showing friends & enemies alike what Raisin Investigations can do! Penelope Keith
- who starred as Agatha Raisin in the popular BBC Radio 4 series
- reads M.C. Beatons entertaining murder mystery.

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Agatha's away with the fairies...and the little folk are causing big trouble for her! Angry at being jilted by new husband James Agatha follows a fortune-teller's advice & rents a cottage in pretty Fryfam. There she hopes true love will come chasing after her. But her romantic notions are dispelled by a series of odd goings-on in the village: strange lights start appearing in her back garden; there are thefts of paintings & pottery; & her beloved cats vanish. & then the local squire is found dead. Agatha's nose for trouble ensnares her in a maelstrom of jealousy blackmail & dangerous liaisons especially with a murderer who plans to keep irrepressible Agatha permanently in Fryfam
- as a resident corpse! Praise for The Agatha Raisin Series": ' Sharp witty hugely intelligent unfailingly entertaining delightfully intolerant & oh so magnificently non-PC M.C. Beaton has created a national treasure'
- Anne Robinson. 'M.C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem'
- " Publishers Weekly". ' The Miss Marple-like Raisin is a refreshing sensible wonderfully eccentric thoroughly likeable heroine'
- " Booklist"."



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A vengeful ghost comes back to haunt the living? Reports of a haunted house soon have Agatha snooping around but it turns out the victim of the haunting is a universally disliked old biddy on whom someone is playing a practical joke. & then the old lady is murdered
- but for Agatha solving a crime is much more fun than hunting a ghost! Very soon she's up to her usual tricks involving the villagers local police & of course her handsome new neighbour. Praise for The Agatha Raisin Series": ' Fast-paced witty & well-plotted'
- My Shelf.com. ' Sharp witty hugely intelligent unfailingly entertaining delightfully intolerant & oh so magnificently non-PC M.C. Beaton has created a national treasure'
- Anne Robinson. 'M.C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem'
- " Publishers Weekly". ' The Miss Marple-like Raisin is a refreshing sensible wonderfully eccentric thoroughly likeable heroine'
- " Booklist"."




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Recently married to James Lacey Agatha quickly finds out that it's not all 'happy ever after'
- before long the newlyweds are living
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Love like hell is a four-letter word for Agatha...no happily ever after for her! Recently married to neighbour James Lacey Agatha quickly finds that love is not all it's cracked up to be
- soon the newly-weds are living in separate cottages & accusing each other of infidelity. Then after a fight down the local pub James vanishes
- a bloodstain the only clue to his fate. Naturally Agatha is Suspect Number One. Determined to clear her name
- & find her husband
- Agatha begins her investigation & promptly discovers a murdered mistress. Praise for The Agatha Raisin Series": ' Sharp witty hugely intelligent unfailingly entertaining delightfully intolerant & oh so magnificently non-PC M.C. Beaton has created a national treasure'
- Anne Robinson. 'M.C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem'
- " Publishers Weekly". ' The Miss Marple-like Raisin is a refreshing sensible wonderfully eccentric thoroughly likeable heroine'
- " Booklist"."






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Cold-blooded murder heats up Agatha's summer holiday! Agatha travels to Cyprus only to contend with her estranged fiance an egregious group of truly terrible tourists & a string of murders... In this sixth entertaining outing Agatha leaves the sleepy Cotswold village of Carsely to pursue love
- & finds a murderer. Spurned at the altar she follows her fleeing fiance James Lacey to Cyprus where instead of enjoying the honeymoon they'd planned they witness the killing of an obnoxious tourist in a disco. Intrigue & a string of murders surround the unlikely couple in a plot as scorching as the Cypriot sun! Praise for the Agatha Raisin" series: 'M. C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem'
- " Publishers Weekly". ' The detective novels of M. C. Beaton a master of outrageous black comedy have reached cult status'
- " The Times". " Anyone interested in a few hours" worth of intelligent amusing reading will want to make the acquaintance of Mrs. Agatha Raisin'
- The Cleveland Pain Dealer. 'M C Beaton has created a new national treasure...the stories zing along & are irresistible unputdownable a joy... Agatha Raisin is The Strongest Link'
- Anne Robinson. ' Being a cranky middle-aged female myself I found Agatha charming!'
- Amazon customer review. 'I dream of being able to speak out like Aggie.. .she's a heroine!'
- A. Lucas Essex reader review."






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This is an unexpected hike to the Other Side... After time away Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village of Carsely
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Agatha Raisin's neighbouring village of Ancombe is usually the epitome of quiet rural charm but the arrival of a new mineral-water company
- which intends to tap into the village spring
- sends tempers flaring & divides the parish council into two stubborn camps. When Agatha who just happens to be handling the PR for the water company finds the council chairman murdered at the basin of the spring tongues start wagging. Could one of the council members have polished off the chairman before he could cast the deciding vote? Poor Agatha still nursing a bruised heart from one of her unsuccessful romantic encounters must get cracking investigate the councillors & solve the crime. Praise for the Agatha Raisin" series: 'M.C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem'
- " Publishers Weekly". ' The detective novels of M.C. Beaton a master of outrageous black comedy have reached cult status'
- " The Times". ' Being a cranky middle-aged female myself I found Agatha charming'
- Amazon customer review. '" Agatha Raisin" is sharp witty hugely intelligent unfailingly entertaining delightfully intolerant & oh so magnificently non PC. M C Beaton has created a new national treasure...the stories zing along & are irresistible unputdownable a joy. If you buy one book a year let it be this. " Agatha Raisin" is " The Strongest Link"'
- Anne Robinson."





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Eye of newt toe of frog...and murder most foul! Left with bald patches thanks to the wicked doings of a murderer from a previous investigation Agatha flees to coastal Wyckhadden to re-grow her lost locks. With hair tonic supplied by a local witch Agatha's tresses begin to flow
- but the witch is found bludgeoned to death. The odd elderly residents of Agatha's elegantly faded hotel seem innocuous but as she delves deeper she discovers secrets best left & powerful motives for revenge. Balancing the amorous attentions of police inspector Jimmy Jessop with an ever more treacherous search for the killer Agatha is at her wits' end
- & ready to cast a spell of her own. Praise for The Agatha Raisin Series": ' Sharp witty hugely intelligent unfailingly entertaining delightfully intolerant & oh so magnificently non-PC M.C. Beaton has created a national treasure'
- Anne Robinson. 'M.C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem'
- " Publishers Weekly". ' The Miss Marple-like Raisin is a refreshing sensible wonderfully eccentric thoroughly likeable heroine'
- " Booklist"."




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The local ladies all deem Mr John a wizard so when Agatha finds a few grey hairs on her head
- & the rinse she tries at home turns
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