The wait is over! The bossy, vain and irresistible Agatha Raisin is back in her latest adventure: Something Borrowed, Someone Dead.
Newcomer Gloria French is at first welcomed in the Cotswold village of Piddlebury. She seems like a do-gooder par excellence, raising funds for the church and caring for the elderly, but she has a bad habit of borrowing things and not giving them back... So when she is discovered dead, poisoned by a bottle of elderberry wine, folk in the village don't mourn her passing too intently.
Parish councillor Jerry Tarrant hires Agatha Raisin to track down the murderer but the case proves to be a tricky one as the creepy and secretive village residents don't seem to want Agatha to find out who the murderer is at all. Of course it doesn't help either that Agatha's investigations are further hampered by the emotional upset of finding out her ex - James Lacey - has fallen in love with young detective Toni Gilmour.
And then, cap it all, the murderer starts targeting Agatha!
We were absolutely inundated with responses, thank you very much for your help!
The crowd has spoken and today we are excited to announce that the most popular choice was...
Village Green Mysteries!
Other suggestions we liked included:
▪ Good time crime ▪ Enid Blyton mystery books for adults ▪ Mishap murder mayhem with scones ▪ My kind of crime
The 10 winners of M.C. Beaton's Death of Kingfisher are Tracey Silver, Peter Conway, Josephine O'Gorman, Sandra Nicholls, Helen Simpson, Angela Greaves, Susan Oakley, David McNamara, Beverley Outten and Jeanette Taylor, keep an eye out for your prize in the post!
Coming soon ...
▪ Death of a Maid ▪ Death of a Gentle Lady ▪ Both delightfully recovered and reissued in paperback on 17 October, pre-order now! ▪ Death of a Sweep ▪ The 26th outing for the Highland's most famous PC, Hamish Macbeth, pre-order your copy now!
