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Stap in een wereld van charmante dorpsmysteries waar een pittige, politiek incorrecte heldin zich bezighoudt met het oplossen van moorden. Deze serie volgt haar leven, vol rampzalige romantische verwikkelingen en onverwachte onthullingen. Elke zaak onthult meer over het leven in een slaperig dorp en de protagonist zelf, terwijl ze zich begeeft op het gebied van detectivewerk en liefde. Het is een heerlijke mix van humor, intriges en de aantrekkingskracht van het Britse platteland.

Agatha Raisin and the wellspring of death
Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist
Agatha Raisin: Hot to trot
Agatha Raisin. There goes the bride
Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadde

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    Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

    3,8(27021)Tarief

    Revenge is a dish best served warm...High-flying public relations supremo Agatha Raisin has decided to take early retirement. She's off to make a new life in a picture-perfect Cotswold village. To make friends, she enters the local quiche-making competition - and to make quite sure of first prize she secretly pays a visit to a London deli. Alas, the competition judge succumbs after tasting her perfect quiche, and Agatha is revealed as a cheat and potential poisoner. Definitely not the best start. So Agatha must turn amateur sleuth - she's absolutely got to track down the real killer Praise for the Agatha Raisin series: 'M. C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem.' Publishers Weekly 'Irresistible, unputdownable, a joy.' Anne Robinson

    Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
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    Agatha Raisin enquête 1. La quiche fatale

    • 324bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen
    3,6(1365)Tarief

    Sur un coup de tête, Agatha Raisin décide de quitter Londres pour goûter aux délices d'une retraite anticipée dans un paisible village des Costwolds, où elle ne tarde pas à s'ennuyer ferme. Afficher ses talents de cordon-bleu au concours de cuisine de la paroisse devrait forcément la rendre populaire. Mais à la première bouchée de sa superbe quiche, l'arbitre de la compétition s'effondre et Agatha doit révéler l'amère vérité : elle a acheté la quiche fatale chez un traiteur. Pour se disculper, une seule solution : mettre la main à la pâte et démasquer elle-même l'assassin. Agatha Raisin, c'est une Miss Marple d'aujourd'hui. Une quinqua qui n'a pas froid aux yeux, fume comme un pompier et boit sec. Sans scrupule, pugnace, à la fois exaspérante et attendrissante, elle vous fera mourir de rire !

    Agatha Raisin enquête 1. La quiche fatale
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    Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet

    3,6(402)Tarief

    Former London PR agent, Agatha Raisin still hasn't adjusted to village life. When the town's new vet is found dead in what police call a freak accident, Agatha convinces the hard-to-get James Lacey that playing amateur detective might be fun.

    Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
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    Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener

    • 224bladzijden
    • 8 uur lezen
    3,8(6879)Tarief

    Agatha Raisin longs for a little romance and excitement in the English Cotswolds. Her latest plan to endear herself to bachelor James Lacey, her neighbor, is to take up gardening: She sees the prestigious Carsley Horticultural Contest as the perfect opportunity to impress James. Unfortunately, Agatha's sincere horticultural efforts are thwarted by a hard freeze that kills all of her seedlings, forcing her to resort to her usual treachery. When conniving Roy Silver, her former assistant at the PR firm that she sold and retired from, is sent to persuade Agatha to return to London to save the Pure Cosmetics account, he sees the perfect opportunity. Knowing how proud and competitive Agatha can be, he makes her an offer she can't refuse. Roy promises to arrange to fill her garden with healthy, beautiful plants in secret if she will save the account

    Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
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    Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley

    • 192bladzijden
    • 7 uur lezen
    3,6(336)Tarief

    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 Walkers of Dembley
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    Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage

    • 420bladzijden
    • 15 uur lezen
    3,7(324)Tarief

    The morning of Agatha Raisin's long-awaited marriage to her attractive and elusive neighbor, James Lacey, dawns bright and clear. But the storm clouds of the day before would have been more appropriate. A new anti-wrinkle cream turns Agatha's face into one large red rash, James refuses to discuss his feelings for her, and then Agatha's first husband, Jimmy Raisin, reappears just in time to keep her from committing bigamy. The ensuing brouhaha - Agatha tries to strangle Jimmy, whom she had thought long dead - humiliates and embarrasses James Lacey, who abruptly breaks his engagement to Agatha. When Jimmy is found murdered the next morning, Agatha and James are the prime suspects. Since the easiest way to clear their names is to find the real murderer, Agatha convinces James to help her investigate. But will their subsequent close proximity - which has them, ironically, pretending to be man and wife - be enough to soothe James's bruised pride?

    Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage
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    Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist

    • 420bladzijden
    • 15 uur lezen
    3,5(237)Tarief

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

    Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist
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    Agatha Raisin and the wellspring of death

    3,7(151)Tarief

    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.

    Agatha Raisin and the wellspring of death
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    Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham

    • 256bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
    3,6(238)Tarief

    After a home dye job ruins her hair, Agatha Raisin, the prickly yet lovable amateur sleuth, turns to the wonderful new hairdresser in the neighbouring 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 John really be a ruthless blackmailer? When a murderer strikes at the busy salon, Agatha must discover the truth and the killer's identity before it's too late

    Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
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    Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadde

    • 256bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
    3,6(235)Tarief

    After being shaved bald during a previous case, Agatha Raisin goes to a seaside resort and enlists the aid of a local witch to grow her hair back, putting her right in the middle of things when the witch is found dead. Reprint.

    Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadde
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    Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam

    • 256bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
    3,6(229)Tarief

    Feeling jilted and cross, Agatha follows a fortune-teller's advice and rents a cottage in the pretty village of Fryfam, where she hopes good fortune and true love will come chasing after her for a change. Unfortunately, her romantic notions are soon dispelled by the strange goings-on in the village. What exactly are those strange lights in Agatha's back garden? Who is stealing paintings and pottery? Where are her beloved cats? And who murdered the local squire... Agatha's nose for trouble leads her into a maelstrom of jealousy, blackmail and dangerous liaisons - and a murderer who plans to keep irrepressible Agatha permanently in Fryfam - as a resident corpse!

    Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam
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    Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell

    • 340bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen
    3,7(230)Tarief

    Agatha Raisin Has Finally Married The Man Of Her Dreams. But Now Her Life Is Nothing Short Of A Nightmare... The honeymoon is most definitely over for Agatha Raisin and her new husband, James Lacey. It's only been a short time since their wedding-and already they aren't getting on. But his wandering eye and her God-awful housekeeping are the least of their problems. Just days after a very public, very ugly marital row, James disappears-and when his mistress is later found murdered, he's the prime suspect. Agatha just doesn't buy it. Sure, he's a liar and a sneaky, low-down cheat. But a murderer? That's bloody impossible And as some speculate on the role Agatha may have played in his vanishing, the forever-feisty Mrs. Raisin must piece together the most unsavory parts of the dead woman's past to clear James's name-and her own...

    Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell
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    Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came

    • 244bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
    3,7(221)Tarief

    Tetchy Agatha Raisn's attempt at a little R&R in the wake of her beloved husband's defection to a French monastery gets her revved up for another mystery when she hears that a fellow vactioner was murdered.

    Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came
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    Agatha Raisin and the Curious Curate

    • 309bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen
    3,7(222)Tarief

    Agatha is going through a man-hating phase and so is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate. But when she meets the golden-haired, blue eyed Tristan Delon, she is swept off her feet ... along with every other female in the village. She is positively ecstatic when he invites her to dine with him but the next day Agatha is left with a hangover from hell - and his cold corpse suggests that, once again, she's in the frame for murder! Agatha and her handsome neighbour, John Armitage, investigate.

    Agatha Raisin and the Curious Curate
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    Agatha Raisin and the haunted house

    • 288bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen
    3,6(248)Tarief

    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. Paul has heard rumors about Agatha's reputation as the Cotswold village sleuth and wastes no time offering their services to the crotchety owner of a haunted house. Whispers, footsteps, and a cold white mist are plaguing Mrs. Witherspoon, but the police have failed to come up with any leads, supernatural or otherwise. The neighbors think it's all a desperate ploy for attention, but Paul and Agatha are sure something more devious is going on. Someone's playing tricks on Mrs. Witherspoon, and when she turns up dead under suspicious circumstances, Agatha finds herself caught up in another baffling murder mystery.

    Agatha Raisin and the haunted house
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    The Deadly Dance

    • 256bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
    3,8(5933)Tarief

    Frustrated by a series of small jobs after opening her own detective agency, Agatha Raisin places the fledgling agency's reputation on the line by alienating her friends and flirting with a chief suspect.

    The Deadly Dance
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    Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon

    • 272bladzijden
    • 10 uur lezen
    3,7(775)Tarief

    After nearly being killed by a hit man & her former secretary, Agatha Raisin could do with some low-key cases. So when Robert Smedley walks through the door, determined to prove his wife has been cheating on him, it seems like the ideal assignment.

    Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon
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    Agatha Raisin. Love, lies and liquor

    3,6(214)Tarief

    Agatha Raisin thinks she's in for a treat when her ex-husband James Lacey invites her on holiday but his idea of an idyllic break is the small, run-down resort of Burryhill-on-Sea. And from there on, things go from bad to worse, so when a fellow guest in their hotel is found murdered, Agatha herself is chief suspect.

    Agatha Raisin. Love, lies and liquor
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    Kissing Christmas Goodbye

    3,8(7427)Tarief

    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. Her detective agency in the Cotswolds is thriving, but she'll scream if she has to deal with another missing cat or dog. Only two things seem to offer potential excitement: the upcoming Christmas festivities and her ex, James Lacey. This year she is sure that if she invites James to a really splendid, old-fashioned Christmas dinner, their love will rekindle like a warm Yule log. When a wealthy widow hires Agatha because she's convinced a member of her family is trying to kill her, Agatha is intrigued---especially when the widow drops dead after high tea at the manor house. Who in this rather sterile house, complete with fake family portraits, could have hated the old lady enough to poison her? Agatha sets out to find the murderer, all the while managing a pretty, teenage trainee who makes her feel old and planning for a picture-perfect Christmas, with James, all the trimmings, and perhaps even snow.

    Kissing Christmas Goodbye
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    Agatha Raisin and a spoonful of poison

    3,7(191)Tarief

    Agatha Raisin's detective agency has become so successful that she decides to take time off for rest and relaxation. But as soon as she does, she remembers that when she does have time on her hands, she doesn't know what to do with it. So it doesn't take much for the vicar of a nearby village to persuade her to help publicize the church fete - especially when the event organizer, George Selby, turns out to be a handsome widower.Agatha brings out the crowds for the fete all right, but there's more going on than innocent village fun. Several of the offerings in the jam-tasting booth turn out to be poisoned and the festive entertainment becomes the scene of two murders.Along with her young assistant, Toni, Agatha must lift the lid on the jam tampering, see to the safety of the church funds, and root out the nasty secrets lurking in the village. Quite a tall order while she is attempting to flirt with gorgeous George, who probably has a few secrets of his own! Praise for the Agatha Raisin series:'M.C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem.' Publishers Weekly'Clever red herrings and some wicked unfinished business guarantees that the listener will pant for a sequel.' The Times audio review

    Agatha Raisin and a spoonful of poison
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    Agatha Raisin. There goes the bride

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    • 11 uur lezen
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    Bossy, impulsive, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha is dreading the upcoming marriage of her ex-husband, James Lacey. Her best intentions to move on with her life are put on hold when James's young bride is shot to death just minutes before saying I do, and Agatha is named the prime suspect.

    Agatha Raisin. There goes the bride
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    Agatha Raisin and the busy body

    3,6(59)Tarief

    Agatha Raisin has never been one for enforced holiday cheer, but her friendly little village of Carsely has always prided itself on its traditional Christmas festivities. But this year the bells will not be ringing out Silent Night.

    Agatha Raisin and the busy body
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    Agatha Raisin. As the pig turns

    3,8(112)Tarief

    Winter Parva, a traditional Cotswolds village next door to Carsely, 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 – realise that things aren’t as they seem& Very quickly it transpires that the spit pig is in fact Gary Beech, a policeman not much loved in Winter Parva. And although Agatha has every intention of leaving the affair to the police, she rapidly changes her mind when she finds out Gary’s ex-wife has hired Toni to investigate. Cantankerous and competitive as Agatha is, she has to now join the fray and try and solve the case herself! Praise for M C Beaton's Agatha Raisin series:I know I once vowed to read only Agatha Christie for a year but I cheated. My No. 1 mistress, M.C. Beaton and her Agatha Raisin whodunits. Agatha is like Miss Marple with a drinking problem, a pack a day habit and major man lust. In fact, I think she may be living my dream life. Entertainment Weekly.Once again M. C. Beaton has concocted an amusing brew of mystery and romance that will keep her fans turning the pages. Publisher's Weekly.Pure entertainment. The Guardian.

    Agatha Raisin. As the pig turns
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    Hiss and Hers

    3,5(86)Tarief

    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...

    Hiss and Hers
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    The Blood of an Englishman

    • 320bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen
    3,6(122)Tarief

    The Blood of an Englishman continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series—now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television. "Fee, fie, fo, fum. I smell the blood of an Englishman..." 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. Surely this isn't the way the scene was rehearsed? When it turns out the popular baker has been murdered, Agatha puts her team of private detectives on the case. They soon discover more feuds and temperamental behavior in amateur theatrics than in a professional stage show—and face more and more danger as the team gets too close to the killer. The Blood of an Englishman is Agatha's 25th adventure, and you'd think she would have learned by now not to keep making the same mistakes. Alas, no—yet Agatha's flaws only make her more endearing. In this sparkling new entry in M. C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling series of modern cozies, Agatha Raisin once again "manages to infuriate, amuse, and solicit our deepest sympathies as we watch her blunder her way boldly through another murder mystery" (Bookreporter.com).

    The Blood of an Englishman
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    Agatha Raisin: Dishing the Dirt

    • 192bladzijden
    • 7 uur lezen
    3,6(172)Tarief

    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. A resentment is different from a dislike and needs to be shared, so as the friendship between James and Jill grows stronger, the more Agatha does to try to find out all she can about her. When Jill is found strangled to death in her office two days' later, Agatha finds herself under suspicion - and must fight to clear her name.

    Agatha Raisin: Dishing the Dirt
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    Agatha Raisin: Pushing up Daisies

    • 240bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
    3,4(123)Tarief

    Lord Bellington has enraged locals by saying he is going to sell off their allotments to make way for a new housing development. So when he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, nobody mourns his passing. On another fine summer's day, Agatha visits Carsley's allotments where everything looks peaceful and perfect: people of all ages digging in the soil and working hard to grow their own fruit and veg. Agatha feels almost tempted to take on a strip herself but common sense soon prevails. She doesn't really like getting her hands dirty. She is introduced to three keen gardeners; Harry Perry, Bunty Daventry and Josephine Merriweather are lamenting the neglected condition of a patch that has become available. But as Harry starts to shovel through the weeds and grass his spade comes across something hard so he bends down and tries to move the object. And he starts to yell. The body is that of Peta Currie, a newcomer to the village - but who would want to murder her? Blonde and beautiful, she's every local male's favourite. And then Lord Bellington's son engages Agatha to do some digging of her own and very soon Agatha is thrown into a world of petty feuds, jealousies and disputes over land. It would seem that far from being tiny gardens of Eden, Carsley's allotments are local battlefields where passions - and the bodycount - run high!

    Agatha Raisin: Pushing up Daisies
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    Agatha Raisin and the Witches' Tree

    • 232bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
    3,4(5511)Tarief

    Cotswolds inhabitants are used to bad weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Harris, the new vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They struggle to see the road ahead - but then screech to a halt. Right in front of them, aglow in the headlights of their car, a body hangs from a lightning-blasted tree at the edge of town. But it's not suicide; Margaret Darby, an elderly spinster of the parish, has been murdered - and the villagers are bewildered as to who would commit such a crime, and why. Agatha Raisin rises to the occasion, delighted to have some excitement back in her life as if truth be told, she was getting bored of the long run of lost cats and divorces on the books

    Agatha Raisin and the Witches' Tree
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    Agatha Risin and the Dead Ringer

    3,4(4240)Tarief

    The 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. As the village gets ready for the Bishop's visit, the twins get overly-excited at the prospect of ringing the special peal of bells created for the occasion and start bullying the other bell ringers, forcing them to rehearse and rehearse... so much so that Joseph Kennell, a retired lawyer, yells at the sisters that he 'felt like killing them'! When the twins' home is broken into one night and Millicent is found dead, struck from a hammer blow, suspicion falls onto the lawyer. Will Agatha unmask the real killer and clear Joseph's name?

    Agatha Risin and the Dead Ringer
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    Agatha Raisin: Hot to trot

    • 256bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
    3,9(95)Tarief

    Private Detective Agatha Raisin immerses herself in the glittering lifestyle of the fabulously wealthy when Sir Charles Fraith is accused of murder - and Agatha is named as his accomplice! A high-society wedding, a glitzy masked ball, and an introduction to the world of international show-jumping where the riders are glamorous, the horses are beautiful, and intrigue runs deep, leave Agatha with a list of suspects as long as a stallion's tail. Sinister evidence then emerges that appears to seal Sir Charles's fate and Agatha must uncover the truth before a net of skulduggery closes around him and he loses his ancestral home, his entire estate, and his freedom.

    Agatha Raisin: Hot to trot