Agatha Raisin Series by M.C. Beaton, Diana Bishop, Trends International, Penelope Keith, Donada Peters, Julia Fischer, Wanda McCaddon, Alison Larkin, R.W. Green

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  • Agatha's First Case (Agatha Raisin #0.5)
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    Agatha's First Case (Agatha Raisin #0.5)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2015

    At age twenty six, Agatha Raisin has already come a long way. She has clawed her way up since leaving the Birmingham slum where she was born. She's lost her Birmingham accent, run away from her drunken husband, and found a job at a public relations office as a secretary. Then her boss asks Agatha to go to the home of Brian Devese to tell him that he is soon going to be arrested for the murder of his wife and that the agency no longer wants to represent him... more

  • The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin #1)
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    The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin #1)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 1992

    Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best quiche will make her the toast of the town... more

  • The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin #2)
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    The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin #2)

    M.C. Beaton, Diana Bishop

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1993

    Feisty Agatha Raisin, former London PR exec, retired to quiet Cotswold village. Handsome vet Paul Bladen accidentally kills himself while attending Lord Pendlebury's horse. Agatha and attractive neighbor James Lacey investigate the curious lack of sorrow shown by his divorced wife while a killer plans another "accident".

  • Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener (Agatha Raisin #3)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener (Agatha Raisin #3)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1994

    Agatha Raisin has a crush on James Lacey. In order to endear herself to him, s he takes up gardening, hoping to participate with him in the prestigious Carsely Horticultural Contest. But as the contest approaches, plants are being mysteriously uprooted, poisoned, and burned. When the prime suspect turns up dead, Agatha must solve the murder mystery.

  • Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley (Agatha Raisin #4)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley (Agatha Raisin #4)

    M.C. Beaton, Penelope Keith

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1995

    Agatha Raisin joins Dembley hiking club to pursue handsome Cotswold neighbor James Lacey. Angry member Jessica targets wealthy landowner Charles Fraith, who retaliates with tea invitation, but her body is found dead on his grounds. Agatha and James investigate the crime, the group ready to kill.

  • Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage (Agatha Raisin #5)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage (Agatha Raisin #5)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1996

    In her fifth outing, Agatha Raisin - the sometimes pushy, sometimes endearing heroine of Beaton's Cotswold village mystery series - has her marriage to next-door neighbour James Lacey disrupted by the startling appearance of her undivorced, long-thought-dead first husband, Jimmy Raisin. Matters go quickly from bad to worse when Jimmy is found murdered - and Agatha and James are the prime suspects.

  • Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (Agatha Raisin #6)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (Agatha Raisin #6)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1997

    In this sixth delightful outing Agatha travels to the north of Cyprus, only to contend with her estranged fiance, an egregious group of truly terrible tourists, and a string of murders as scorching as the Greek sun."

  • Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death (Agatha Raisin #7)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death (Agatha Raisin #7)

    M.C. Beaton, Penelope Keith

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1998

    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 and 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... more

  • Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (Agatha Raisin #8)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (Agatha Raisin #8)

    M.C. Beaton, Donada Peters

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1999

    After a home dye job ruins her hair, Agatha Raisin, the prickly yet lovable amateur sleuth, turns to the wonderful new hairdresser in the neighboring town for help. And as Agatha soon learns, Mr. John is as skilled at repairing her coiffure as he is at romancing her heart. But the charming Mr. John isn't all he appears to be. According to gossip around the salon and the village, some of his former clients seem to be afraid of him. Could Mr... more

  • Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden (Agatha Raisin #9)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden (Agatha Raisin #9)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 1999

    There is nothing more depressing for a middle-aged lovelorn woman with bald patches on her head than to find herself in an English seaside resort out of season. Agatha Raisin, her hair falling out after a run-in with a hairdresser-cum-murderess from a previous investigation, travels to an old-fashioned hotel in order to repair the damage away from the neighbors in her all-too-cozy Cotswolds village... more

  • Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam (Agatha Raisin #10)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam (Agatha Raisin #10)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2000

    When a fortune teller from a previous case informs Agatha Raisin that her destiny--and true love--lies in Norfolk, she promptly rents a cottage in the quaint village of Fryfam. No sooner does she arrive than strange things start happening. Random objects go missing from people's homes, and odd little lights are seen dancing in the villagers' gardens and yards. Stories soon begin circulating about the presence of fairies... more

  • Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell (Agatha Raisin #11)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell (Agatha Raisin #11)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2001

    Recently married to James Lacey, the witty and fractious Agatha Raisin quickly finds that marriage, and love, are not all they are cracked up to be. Rather than basking in marital bliss, the newlyweds are living in separate cottages and accusing each other of infidelity. After a particularly raucous fight in the local pub, James suddenly vanishes-a bloodstain the only clue to his fate-and Agatha is the prime suspect... more

  • Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came (Agatha Raisin #12)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came (Agatha Raisin #12)

    M.C. Beaton, Julia Fischer, Penelope Keith

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2002

    Marital bliss was short-lived for Agatha Raisin. Her marriage to James Lacey was a disaster from the beginning, and in the end, he left her-not for another woman, but for God. After having been miraculously cured of a brain tumor, James has decided to join a monastery in France. Agatha can usually depend on her old friend, Sir Charles Fraith, to be there when times are tough, but even Charles has abandoned her, dashing off to Paris to marry a young French tart... more

  • Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate (Agatha Raisin #13)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate (Agatha Raisin #13)

    Trends International

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2003

    Agatha Raisin has just about had it - James has abandoned her, the new neighbour has made an unseenly proposition, and the new curate seems to be taking a more than normal interest in her. Now he is dead.

  • Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House (Agatha Raisin #14)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House (Agatha Raisin #14)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2003

    Just back from an extended stay in London, Agatha Raisin finds herself greeted by torrential rains and an old, familiar feeling of boredom. When her handsome new neighbor, Paul Chatterton, shows up on her doorstep, she tries her best to ignore his obvious charms, but his sparkling black eyes and the promise of adventure soon lure her into another investigation... more

  • The Deadly Dance (Agatha Raisin #15)
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    The Deadly Dance (Agatha Raisin #15)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2004

    Infuriated that her holiday was ruined by a mugging, Agatha Raisin decides to open up her own detective agency. The romance-minded sleuth is thrilled by visions of handsome fellow gumshoes and headline-making crimes—but soon finds the only cases she can get are a non-glamorous lot of lost cats and an errant teenager. But when a wealthy divorcée hires the agency to investigate a death threat against her daughter Cassandra, Agatha thwarts a vicious attack on the heiress bride... more

  • The Perfect Paragon (Agatha Raisin #16)
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    The Perfect Paragon (Agatha Raisin #16)

    M.C. Beaton, Penelope Keith

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2005

    Agatha Raisin, recent divorcée, hates adultery cases and pompous Robert Smedley, but needs work. Unfortunately Mabel appears the perfect young wife, a pretty church volunteer. Agatha stumbles across dead missing teen Jessica, and investigates free for publicity. When Smedley dies from poison, Mabel hires Agatha, who brings in old friends, new hires, and finds the killers.

  • Love, Lies and Liquor (Agatha Raisin #17)
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    Love, Lies and Liquor (Agatha Raisin #17)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2006

    Agatha Raisin is lonely. Busy as she is with her detective agency and the meetings of the Carsely Ladies' Society, she still misses her ex-husband, James Lacey, so she welcomes his return to the cottage next door with her usual triumph of optimism over experience - especially when he invites her on holiday at a surprise location that was once very dear to him. With visions of a romantic hideaway in Italy or the Pacific dancing in her head, Agatha goes off happily with James to .. more

  • Kissing Christmas Goodbye (Agatha Raisin #18)
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    Kissing Christmas Goodbye (Agatha Raisin #18)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2007

    Unlike quite a number of people, Agatha had not given up on Christmas. To have the perfect Christmas had been a childhood dream whilst surviving a rough upbringing in a Birmingham slum. Holly berries glistened, snow fell gently outside, and inside, all was Dickensian jollity. And in her dreams, James Lacey kissed her under the mistletoe, and, like a middle-aged sleeping beauty, she would awake to passion once more.... Agatha Raisin is bored... more

  • A Spoonful of Poison (Agatha Raisin #19)
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    A Spoonful of Poison (Agatha Raisin #19)

    M.C. Beaton, Wanda McCaddon

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2008

    Cranky but lovable sleuth Agatha Raisin’s detective agency has become so successful that she wants nothing more than to take quality time for rest and relaxation. But as soon as she begins closing the agency on weekends, she remembers that when she has plenty of quality time, she doesn’t know what to do with it... more

  • There Goes the Bride (Agatha Raisin #20)
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    There Goes the Bride (Agatha Raisin #20)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2009

    Bossy, impulsive Cotswold detective agency owner Agatha Raisin jokingly responds "Shoot her?" when ex-husband James Lacey desperately seeks last-minute reprieve. Suave Sylvan Dubois manipulated simple-minded surgically-created beauty Felicity and charms Agatha. But she is suspect #1 when a fatal bullet prevents the vows.

  • Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body (Agatha Raisin #21)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body (Agatha Raisin #21)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2010

    Agatha Raisin has always been ambivalent about holiday cheer, but her cozy little village of Carsely has long prided itself on its Christmas festivities. But this year Mr. John Sunday, a self important officer with the Health and Safety Board, has ruled that the traditional tree on top of the church is a public menace; that lampposts are unsafe for hanging illuminations; that May Dimwoody’s homemade toys are dangerous for children... more

  • As the Pig Turns (Agatha Raisin #22)
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    As the Pig Turns (Agatha Raisin #22)

    M.C. Beaton, Penelope Keith

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2011

    Winter Parva, a traditional Cotswolds village, has decided to throw a celebratory hog roast to mark the beginning of the winter holiday festivities and Agatha Raisin has arrived with friend and rival in the sleuthing business, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the spit pig is carried towards the bed of fiery charcoal Agatha--and the rest of the village--realize that things aren't as they seem.

  • Christmas Crumble (Agatha Raisin #22.5)
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    Christmas Crumble (Agatha Raisin #22.5)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2012

    Christmas tale that’s holly, jolly—and deadly, by golly…At home alone for the holidays, Agatha Raisin decides to host a dinner party for the elder residents in her Cotswold village of Winter Parva. Agatha’s never been able to cook, but she’s dead-set on making this the perfect holiday for local “crumblies". She’s decorated a tree while fending off her cats Hodge and Boswell, and even made a (lumpy) Christmas pudding in between swigs of rum... more

  • Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin #23)
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    Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin #23)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2012

    Agatha has fallen in love - again. This time it's the local gardener, George Marston, she has her eye on. But competition for his attention abounds. With her shameless determination Agatha will do anything to get her man - including footing the bill for a charity ball in town just for the chance to dance with him. But when George is a no-show Agatha goes looking for him - and finds he has been murdered, having been bitten by a poisonous snake and buried in a compost heap... more

  • Something Borrowed, Someone Dead (Agatha Raisin #24)
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    Something Borrowed, Someone Dead (Agatha Raisin #24)

    M.C. Beaton, Penelope Keith

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2013

    Gloria French was a jolly widow with dyed blonde hair, a raucous laugh and rosy cheeks. When she first moved from London to the charming Cotswolds hills, she was heartily welcomed.  She seemed a do-gooder par excellence, raising funds for the church and caring for the elderly.  But she had a nasty habit of borrowing things and not giving them back, just small things, a teapot here, a set of silverware there... more

  • Hell's Bells (Agatha Raisin #24.5)
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    Hell's Bells (Agatha Raisin #24.5)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2013

    Widowed Mary Bolton, like Miss Jean Brodie, considers herself in her prime. Not satisfied with car boot sales, dances at the bowling club and reading to the elderly, she throws herself into bellringing with gusto - much to the annoyance of her neighbours.But when the industrious Mary is found swinging from a bell rope, Jessica Brand - who only days before had threatened to strangle Mary with the very same rope - fears she will be accused... more

  • The Blood of an Englishman (Agatha Raisin #25)
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    The Blood of an Englishman (Agatha Raisin #25)

    M.C. Beaton, Alison Larkin

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2014

    Even though Agatha Raisin loathes amateur dramatics, her friend Mrs. Bloxby, the vicar's wife, has persuaded her to support the local pantomime. Stifling a yawn at the production of "Babes in the Woods," Agatha watches the baker playing an ogre strut and threaten on the stage, until a trapdoor opens and the Ogre disappears in an impressive puff of smoke. Only he doesn't re-appear at final curtain... more

  • Dishing the Dirt (Agatha Raisin #26)
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    Dishing the Dirt (Agatha Raisin #26)

    M.C. Beaton, Alison Larkin

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2015

    A therapist had moved into the village of Carsely and Agatha Raisin hates her. Not only was this therapist, Jill Davent, romancing Agatha's ex-husband, but she had dug up details of Agatha's slum background.Added to that, Jill was counselling a woman called Gwen Simple from Winter Parva and Agatha firmly believed Gwen to have assisted her son in some grisly murders, although has no proof she had done so... more

  • Pushing up Daisies (Agatha Raisin #27)
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    Pushing up Daisies (Agatha Raisin #27)

    M.C. Beaton, Alison Larkin

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2016

    When Agatha Raisin left behind her PR business in London, she fulfilled her dream of settling in the cozy British Cotswolds where she began a successful private detective agency. Unfortunately, the village she lives in is about to get a little less cozy. Lord Bellington, a wealthy land developer, wants to turn the community garden into a housing estate... more

  • Agatha Raisin and the Witches' Tree (Agatha Raisin #28)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Witches' Tree (Agatha Raisin #28)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2017

    The Witches’ Tree continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series―now a hit T.V. show.Cotswolds inhabitants are used to inclement weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Devere, the new vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They strain to see the road ahead―and then suddenly brake, screeching to a halt... more

  • Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer (Agatha Raisin #29)
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    Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer (Agatha Raisin #29)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2018

    The latest Agatha Raisin mystery from bestselling author M. C. BeatonThe team of bells at St. Ethelred church is the pride and glory of the idyllic Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna, together with the most dedicated bell ringers in the whole of England: the twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin... more

  • Beating About the Bush (Agatha Raisin #30)
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    Beating About the Bush (Agatha Raisin #30)

    M.C. Beaton

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2019

    New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—now the star of a hit T.V. show—is back on the case again. When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems... more

  • Hot to Trot (Agatha Raisin #31)
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    Hot to Trot (Agatha Raisin #31)

    M.C. Beaton, R.W. Green

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2020

    When Private Investigator Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is to be married to a mysterious socialite, Miss Mary Brown-Field, she sees it as her duty to find out what she can about the woman. Coming up empty, Agatha—out of selfless concern for Charles, of course—does the only sensible thing she can think of: she crashes their wedding, which ends in a public altercation... more

  • Down the Hatch (Agatha Raisin #32)
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    Down the Hatch (Agatha Raisin #32)

    M.C. Beaton, R.W. Green

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2021

    Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again in Down the Hatch.Private detective Agatha Raisin, having recently taken up power-walking, is striding along a path in Mircester Park during her lunch break when she hears a cry for help. Rushing over, she finds an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Swinburn, in the middle of the green--with the body of an old man lying at their feet... more

  • Devil’s Delight (Agatha Raisin #33)
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    Devil’s Delight (Agatha Raisin #33)

    M.C. Beaton, R.W. Green

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2022

    Beloved New York Times bestseller M.C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—the star of her own hit T.V. series—is back on the case again in Devil's Delight.Agatha and her assistant, Toni, are driving to their friend Bill Wong’s long-awaited wedding, thinking of nothing more than what the beautiful bride will be wearing when a terrified young man comes running down the country lane towards them wearing…nothing at all... more

  • Dead on Target (Agatha Raisin #34)
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    Dead on Target (Agatha Raisin #34)

    M.C. Beaton, R.W. Green

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2023

    Beloved New York Times bestseller M.C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—the star of her own hit T.V. series—is back on the case again in Dead on Target.A visit to the local village fete for a spot of fun and relaxation turns into a nightmare for Agatha Raisin when she discovers the body of the local landowner in the woods—with an arrow in his chest and his trousers round his ankles... more

  • Killing Time (Agatha Raisin #35)
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    Killing Time (Agatha Raisin #35)

    M.C. Beaton, R.W. Green

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2024

    Life is never, ever dull in Agatha Raisin's sleepy Cotswolds village! Agatha Raisin's private detective agency is working flat out on a series of burglaries which take a violent turn when a friend of Agatha's is murdered during a raid on his antiques shop. Although determined to nail the villains, Agatha still makes time to help Sir Charles Fraith prepare to stage a massive, hugely glamorous event in the grounds of his ancestral home, Barfield House... more

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