Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful public-relations 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. But her recipe for social advancement sours when Judge Cummings-Browne not only snubs her entry but falls over dead! After her quiche’s secret ingredient turns out to be poison, she must reveal the unsavory truth.
Agatha has never baked a thing in her life! In fact, she bought her entry ready-made from an upper-crust London quicherie. Grating on the nerves of several Carsely residents, she is soon receiving sinister notes. Has her cheating and meddling landed her in hot water, or are the threats related to the suspicious death? It may mean the difference between egg on her face and a coroner’s tag on her toe.
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“The cozy British mystery gets a feisty new
sleuth in the person of Agatha Raisin…Beaton spices up the story with so many
delightful characters that whodunit hardly matters. Agatha herself is an
irascible, testy tyrant who is as cranky as the rest of us would like to be.
Still, she’s not completely stodgy; she does have an eye for the gentlemen.
With a handsome neighbor moving next door in the book’s last few pages, it
seems clear there’s more of Agatha to come.”
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