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Agatha Raisin mysteries

Author:
Beaton, M. C
 
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Book cover for "Agatha Raisin and the quiche of death".
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Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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In order to introduce herself to the picturesque English village where she has just retired, Mrs. Agatha Raisin enters a quiche in a local competition and promptly finds herself a murder suspect when the judge dies from her poisonous pie.
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Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Living in the England Cotswolds and ready for some romance and excitement in her life, amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin gets more than she had bargained for when the charming yet sinister new veterinarian is murdered.
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Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Agatha Raisin enters a prestigious garden contest in an effort to attract the interest of bachelor James Lacey, but the detective part of her takes over when everyone's plants are suddenly uprooted or burned, and the prime suspect is found murdered.
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Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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Agatha Raisin steps in to investigate when the president of a walkers association is found murdered in her neighbor's field.
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Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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While in the midst of planning her marriage to her next-door neighbor, Agatha Raisin's undivorced, long-thought-dead husband reappears, only to end up murdered the next day, leaving the inimitable amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin the prime suspect.
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Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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While holidaying in Cyprus with her fiance, sleuth Agatha Raisin witnesses the murder of a woman tourist who is stabbed to death in a discotheque. As Agatha opens a probe, someone tries to kill her.
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Eccentric amateur detective Agatha Raisin stumbles upon a corpse near the natural spring in a Cotswold village and becomes involved in the heated local debate over the fate of the springs while searching for a killer.
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Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Agatha Raisin has a hair-raising mystery on her hands involving a hairdresser named Mr. John, whom the local ladies deem a wizard. Agatha and Mr. John are quite fond of each other. But their romance is cut short when Mr. John is found poisoned.
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Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Sleuth Agatha Raisin, rendered half-bald by a revengeful hairdresser, travels to a British seaside town to recuperate. But her holiday is spoiled by the murder of two local witches.
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Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Feeling jilted & cross, Agatha follows a fortune-teller's advice & rents a cottage in the village of Fryfam, where she hopes good fortune & true love will come chasing after her. Instead, her nose for trouble leads her into a maelstrom of jealousy.
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Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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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.
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Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Crankier than ever, Agatha Raisin wants to forget that her husband left her to enter a monastery-a turn of affairs more humiliating than when she caught him with a mistress. She feels abandoned, fat, frumpy, and absolutely furious. What are her options? She takes an island vacation and joins a Pilates class. But what finally lifts her spirits is finding a corpse.
Book cover for "Agatha Raisin and the case of the curious curate".
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Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin cozy mystery series—now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.
Agatha Raisin is feeling miserable—and with good reason. Her ex-husband, James, has abandoned her, and she's been humiliated by an unseemly proposition from John Armitage, her handsome neighbor. So complete is her devastation that Agatha

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Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Returning to the humdrum routine of her home, Agatha Raisin finds herself falling for charming new neighbor Paul Chatterton and becomes involved in the investigation of a believed-haunted house and its murdered owner.
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Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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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.
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Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Recovering after nearly being killed by both a hired assassin and her former secretary, Agatha Raisin is looking for a low-key case and takes on an investigation into Robert Smedley's possibly adulterous wife, until her client turns up dead.
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Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Invited to spend a seaside vacation with her ex-husband, James Lacey, at a rundown town called Snoth-on-Sea, Agatha Raisin becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a woman staying at the same hotel and is forced to step in to find the real culprit.
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Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Bored with the routine cases coming her way, Agatha Raisin finally gets an intriguing case after the poisoning death of a wealthy widow, Mrs. Tamworthy, who had sent Agatha a letter warning that she believed that someone in her family intended to kill her.
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Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Agatha Raisin is persuaded by the vicar to help publicize the church fete and she agrees, especially because the fair's organizer, George Selby, is a gorgeous widower. Several of the offerings in the jam-tasting booth turn out to be poisoned, and the festive event becomes the scene of two murders
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Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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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.
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Series Volume:
21.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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When Mr. John Sunday, a self-important officer with the Health and Safety Board, is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife during the village's Christmas festivities, Agatha's detective agency is on the case.
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Series Volume:
22.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"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 protegÄ› 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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Series Volume:
23.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Having fallen hopelessly in love with local gardener George Marston, a shameless Agatha Raisin donates the money for a charity ball in the hope of dancing with him, only to discover that he has been murdered by a killer who caused him to be bitten by a poisonous snake.
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Series Volume:
24.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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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Series Volume:
25.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"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?...
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Series Volume:
26.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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"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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Series Volume:
27.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:

New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin—now the star of a hit show on Acorn TV and public television—is back on the case and poking around where she doesn't belong.
Agatha Raisin, private detective, resident in the Cotswold village of Carsely, should have been a contented and happy woman...
But in M.C. Beaton's Pushing Up Daisies, things are about to get a little less cozy....

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Series Volume:
28.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The Witches' Tree continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series—now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.
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

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Series Volume:
29.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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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 in The Dead Ringer.
The idyllic Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna is best known for the medieval church of St. Ethelred and its bells, which are the pride and glory of the whole community.
As the bell-ringers get ready for the visit of the dashing Bishop Peter Salver-Hinkley, the

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Series Volume:
30.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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"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...
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Series Volume:
31.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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.
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Series Volume:
32.
Average Rating:
2.8 stars
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"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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Series Volume:
33.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"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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Series Volume:
34.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"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,...
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Series Volume:
35.
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"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. Agatha Raisin's private detective agency is working flat out on a series of shop burglaries. The break-ins seem to have taken a violent turn when a friend of Agatha's is murdered during a raid on his shop. Although determined to nail the villains, Agatha still makes time to help Sir Charles Fraith prepare to...