Praise for M.C. Beaton 'The detective novels of M.C. Beaton a master of outrageous black
comedy have reached cult status' The Times 'Agatha is like Miss Marple with a drinking problem
a pack-a-day habit and major man lust. In fact I think she could be living my dream life'
Entertainment Weekly Agatha will need a light-fingered touch for this case Incomer 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 village is
creepy and secretive and the residents don't seem to want Agatha to find who the murderer is
and Agatha's investigations are hampered by the emotional upset of finding her ex James Lacey
has fallen in love with young detective Toni Gilmour. And now the murderer is targeting Agatha!
