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Agatha Raisin mysteries

Author:
Beaton, M. C
 
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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the quiche of death
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Agatha retires to the country and decides to enter a quiche-making contest. To ensure first prize, she buys hers at a renowned restaurant, but when the judge dies after eating it, she must solve the crime.
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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the vicious vet
Series Volume:
2.
Description:

It's a purr-fect crime in the Cotswolds.

Former London PR agent, Agatha Raisin still hasn't adjusted to village life, where the only prospect for a hot evening out is a meeting of the Ladies Society. And since her overtures toward James Lacey, the retired military man next door, have failed, Agatha jumps at the chance to visit the new vet, who is single and good-looking. Although Agatha's cat hasn't a thing wrong with him, Hodge endures having

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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the potted gardener
Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:

The Potted Gardener continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin cozy mystery series—now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.
Never say die. That's the philosophy Agatha Raisin clings to when she comes home to cozy Carsely and finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor neighbor, James Lacey. The beautiful newcomer, Mary Fortune, is superior in every way, especially

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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the walkers of Dembley
Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:

After six months in London, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village—and her dashing neighbor, James Lacey. Well, sort of. James might not be so interested in Agatha. But soon enough, Agatha becomes consumed by her other passion: crime solving. A woman has been found dead in a lonely field nearby. Her name is Jessica Tartinck, a hiker who infuriated wealthy landowners by insisting on her hiking club's right to trek across their

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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the murderous marriage
Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:

Almost bigamy and absolute murder—Agatha Raisin's life is never dull.

The morning of Agatha's longed-for marriage to James Lacey dawns bright and clear. But her luck runs out in the church when Jimmy, the husband she had believed long dead, turns up large as life and twice as ugly. Agatha has a go at strangling him. It's all too much for James, who breaks off the engagement. So when Jimmy is found murdered the next day, Agatha and James

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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the terrible tourist
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:

Agatha Raisin, retired PR supremo, has been spurned at the altar by the man of her dreams—her attractive neighbor James Lacey. So temporarily deserting the sleepy Cotswold village of Carsely, she pursues her fleeing fianc├® to north Cyprus, where, instead of enjoying a romantic honeymoon, they witness the killing of an obnoxious tourist in a disco. Can the duo forget their differences and resume their strangely successful sleuthing

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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the wellspring of death
Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Opinion is divided in a village in the English Cotswolds to a company's request to bottle water from the village spring. One side sees economic benefits, the other a degraded environment. When the council chairman who was to make a decision is murdered, sleuth Agatha Raisin goes to work.
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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the wizard of Evesham
Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:

He was a hairdresser to dye for.

The local ladies all deem Mr. John a wizard, so when Agatha finds a few grey hairs on her head—and the rinse she tries at home turns her hair purple—she makes a beeline for the handsome Evesham hairdresser. And as well as sorting out her hair it soon becomes clear the charming man also has designs on her heart—but their budding romance is cut short when Mr. John is fatally poisoned in his

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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the witch of Wyckhadden
Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Summary: Agatha Raisin travels to an old-fashioned hotel in order to repair her damaged hair away from the neighbors in her all-too-cozy Cotswolds village. Unhappy about the slow recovery and prompted by elderly residents of the resort, she consults the local witch for help. Agatha purchases a hair tonic (and a love potion, just in case!) and is soon sprouting hair and capturing the fancy of the village police inspector. But the quiet town is stunned...
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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the fairies of Fryfam
Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:

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.

But when

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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the love from hell
Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
What Agatha expected to be a modern marriage in the middle of the romantic Cotswolds is proving to be anything but. James Lacey, the love of her life is proving to be a most irritating husband. Then he disappears, along with his former lover, who is found murdered. Agatha recruits her former lover to help search for James and find Melissa's killer.
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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the day the floods came
Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
Agatha Raisin decides to escape for a holiday on a remote island paradise, and becomes involved in an investigation into strangely similar crimes that took place half a world apart involving the mysterious deaths of young blonde women.
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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the case of the curious curate
Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
Description:
Depressed after being humiliated and abandoned by the two men in her life, Agatha Raisin finds a new prospect in curate Tristan Delon, whose untimely death prompts Agatha to investigate strange mysteries surrounding the victim.
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Star rating for Agatha Raisin and the haunted house
Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:

Another witty mystery featuring the quirky, crime-solving sleuth Agatha Raisin

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

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Star rating for The deadly dance
Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Star rating for The perfect paragon
Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Star rating for Love, lies, and liquor
Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
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 when he suddenly resurfaces and invites her on holiday at a surprise location, she's ready to go yesterday. With visions of a romantic hideaway, Agatha sets off with James to...Snoth-on-Sea, in Sussex. While James may have fond memories of boyhood holidays there, the once-grand Palace Hotel...
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Star rating for Kissing Christmas goodbye
Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
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...
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Star rating for A spoonful of poison
Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
The vicar of a nearby village persuades Agatha Raisin to help publicize a church fete. Agatha brings out the crowds for the fete, 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 family event becomes the scene of two murders. Along with her young and (much to her dismay) pretty sidekick, Toni, Agatha must uncover the truth behind the jam tampering, keep...
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Star rating for There goes the bride
Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
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.
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Star rating for Busy body
Series Volume:
21.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Agatha Raisin's quiet town of Carsely is outraged when local scrooge John Sunday begins creating laws that prevent the townspeople from having any fun, and when he tries to cancel the annual Christmas festivities, someone's anger turns violent and Mr. Sunday is murdered, leaving Agatha to find the killer before Christmas.
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Star rating for As the pig turns
Series Volume:
22.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"The picturesque Cotwsold village of Winter Parva has decided to warm the winter months after the holidays by roasting a pig in the town square. Agatha, always one for a good roasting, has arrived with her former proteg? and current rival in the private detection racket, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the rotary spit is placed over a bed of fiery charcoals and the pig is carried toward its final resting place, Agatha realizes that things are...
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Star rating for Hiss and hers
Series Volume:
23.
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
Description:
Agatha has fallen head over heels in love--again. This time, she has her eye on the local gardener, George Marston, but so do other women in their little Cotswold village. Shamelessly determined, Agatha will do anything to get her man--including footing the bill for a charity ball just for the chance to dance with him. And then George doesn't even show up. Only partly deterred, Agatha goes looking for him, and finds his dead body in a compost heap....
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Star rating for Something borrowed, someone dead
Series Volume:
24.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Hired by the Parish councilor of a small community in the Cotswold Hills to investigate the murder of a jolly widow, Agatha Raisin learns about the victim's penchant for keeping borrowed items in a case that is complicated by village secrets and a killer who would make Agatha a next target.
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Star rating for The blood of an Englishman
Series Volume:
25.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Investigating the murder of a local baker during an amateur theatrical production, curmudgeon Agatha Raisin and her team of private detectives uncover a web of feuds and temperamental behaviors that place the team in mortal danger.
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Star rating for Dishing the dirt
Series Volume:
26.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"When therapist Jill Davent moved to the village of Carsely, Agatha Raisin was not a fan. Not only was this therapist romancing Agatha's ex-husband but she dug up details of Agatha's not-too-glamorous origins. Jill also counsels a woman, Gwen Simple, that Agatha firmly believes assisted her son in some grisly murders, although there is no proof. Not one to keep her feelings to herself, Agatha tells anyone that would listen that Jill is a charlatan...
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Star rating for Pushing up daisies
Series Volume:
27.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"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. So it's quite the shock when she is found...
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Star rating for The witches' tree
Series Volume:
28.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
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. Right in front of them, aglow...
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Star rating for The dead ringer
Series Volume:
29.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"The church of St. Ethelred in the village of Thirk Magna is renowned for its team of bell-ringers, the troupe led by identical twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin. Mavis and Millicent are lifelong residents of the remote village--or were, until their home is broken into one night, and Millicent is murdered. But who's the killer? Is it one of their co-workers, sick of being bullied to practice for a big performance? Or perhaps Joseph Kennell, a retired...
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Star rating for Beating about the bush
Series Volume:
30.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"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. The factory mystery soon turns to murder and a bad-tempered donkey turns Agatha into a national celebrity, before...
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Star rating for Hot to trot
Series Volume:
31.
Average Rating:
1.5 stars
Description:
Jealously investigating an ex's intended, Agatha Raisin crashes the wedding only to become implicated in the bride's murder, a situation that immerses Agatha in the cutthroat equestrian world. When Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is to be married to socialite, Miss Mary Brown-Field, she sees it as her duty to find out what she can about the woman. Out of selfless concern for Charles, of course. When Agatha crashes...
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Star rating for Down the hatch
Series Volume:
32.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"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...
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Star rating for Devil's delight
Series Volume:
33.
Average Rating:
2 stars
Description:
"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. Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong's long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Terrified, he explains that he has just seen a dead body in the woods. Toni lends...
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Star rating for Dead on target
Series Volume:
34.
Description:
"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 trousers round his ankles. Agatha's old adversary, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes,...