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At home alone for the holidays, Agatha Raisin decides to host a dinner party for the elder residents in her Cotswold village of Winter Parva. Agatha's never been much of a homemaker, but she's dead set on making this the perfect holiday for the 'crumblies', as she affectionately calls them. She's decorated a tree while fending off her cats, Hodge and Boswell, and even made a (lumpy) Christmas pudding in between swigs of rum.

Allotment wars! Lord Bellington, Carsely's biggest landholder, has enraged locals by saying he is going to sell off their allotments to make way for a new housing development. So when he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, nobody mourns his passing. On another fine summer's day Agatha visits...

A therapist had moved into the village of Carsely and Agatha Raisin hates her. Not only was this therapist, Jill Davent, romancing Agatha's ex-husband, but she had dug up details of Agatha's slum background. Added to that, Jill was counselling a woman called Gwen Simple from Winter Parva and...

Even though Agatha Raisin loathes Christmas panto, her friend Mrs Bloxby, the vicar's wife, has persuaded her to support the local am dram society in their festive offering. Stifling a yawn at the production of Babes in the Wood, Agatha watches the baker playing an ogre strut and threaten on...

'Every new Agatha Raisin escapade is a total joy' ASHLEY JENSEN 'No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A Beaton novel is like The Archers on speed' DAILY MAIL The first Agatha Raisin mystery from bestselling author M. C. Beaton __________________________ Revenge is a...

'Every new Agatha Raisin escapade is a total joy' ASHLEY JENSEN 'No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A Beaton novel is like The Archers on speed' DAILY MAIL 'The detective novels of M C Beaton have reached cult status' THE TIMES Nothing could be more relaxing or...

Agatha's former husband James is engaged to be married to a beautiful, young woman and Agatha has been kindly invited to the wedding. To take her mind off this, Agatha decides she has fallen for Sylvan, a Frenchman she met at James' engagement party. To distract her still further she decides...

The second Hamish Macbeth crime mystery, from internationally bestselling author M.C.Beaton When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, everyone in town is delighted. . . except for love-smitten Hamish Macbeth. Yet the affairs of his heart will have to...

Agatha Raisin kommt es nach einer aufregenden Zeit ganz gelegen, dass Robert Smedley sie lediglich damit beauftragt, zu beweisen, dass seine Frau Mabel ihn betrügt. Agatha übernimmt den Fall mit größtem Vergnügen. Leider scheint Mabel die perfekte Ehefrau zu sein: jung, hübsch und eine regelmäßige Kirchgängerin. Von Betrug weit und breit keine Spur.

After a lifetime spent in public relations, one-woman dynamo Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet country village - but she soon finds that there is murder and mayhem aplenty to keep her busy. Among the cases she has to deal with are a poisoned quiche; a vet who has been ‘put to sleep’; a hanged horticulturist; a murdered rambler and a curate who meets his Maker somewhat sooner than expected.

There may be trouble ahead . . . so will Agatha face the music? Can the feisty Agatha cut it as a private investigator? She soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. But then walks in wealthy divorcee Catherine...

È primavera sulle Highlands, ma all’orizzonte di Hamish Macbeth si addensano nuvole nerissime. Ha avuto la promozione (di cui avrebbe volentieri fatto a meno), il suo nuovo capo è insopportabile, e un certo Sean, insieme con la sua ragazza, è arrivato in paese a bordo di un furgone...

Un uomo nudo sbuca d’improvviso da dietro una siepe e si mette a correre lungo una strada di campagna. Comincia così uno dei casi più bizzarri di Agatha Raisin, che sta guidando proprio lungo quella strada: l’uomo, terrorizzato, ferma Agatha e le rivela di aver visto un cadavere in un...

John Heppel ist ein überaus erfolgreicher Autor. Doch in seinem schottischen Heimatort Lochdubh ist er als arroganter Literat bekannt, der sich in seinem Kurs für kreatives Schreiben gerne über die schriftstellerischen Versuche der Einheimischen lustig macht. Als er eines Tages mit tintengetränktem Mund tot aufgefunden wird, hält sich das Mitgefühl der Bewohner in Grenzen. Doch für Polizist Hamish Macbeth ist der Mord mehr als nur eine Störung der Dordidylle – vor allem, als die Medien auftauchen und die forsche DCI Heather Meikle ihm mit unverhohlenen Avancen zusetzt.

A Tommel Castle, un hotel di lusso, si danno appuntamento otto soci di un club per single, col desiderio manifesto di trovare la dolce metà. La persona che li ha riuniti, Maria Worth, è convinta di aver fatto un buon lavoro, ma gli otto si detestano quasi all'istante. Ad attirare le più forti antipatie è però la socia in affari di Maria, Peta, cafona, avida e golosissima.

The brand new village mystery starring Agatha Raisin! Agatha Raisin's Cotswolds village of Carsely is in uproar when word spreads that The Red Lion pub is preparing to close. The aristocratic owner of the local brewery plans to develop the land into luxury apartments. Taking it upon herself to...

Un grido spezza la quiete di Mircester e la camminata di salute che Agatha Raisin sta facendo nella pausa pranzo. Sono stati i signori Swinburn a gridare e ne avevano ben donde: davanti a loro, disteso sull'erba, c'è infatti il cadavere di un uomo. Si chiamava Harold Nelson, però tutti lo conoscevano come l'Ammiraglio, ed era noto non soltanto per la sua passione per le bocce, ma soprattutto per la sua spiccata tendenza ad alzare il gomito in ogni occasione, pubblica e privata.

In welchen trüben Gewässern muss Hamish diesmal angeln? Eigentlich ist Tommy Jarret auf der Suche nach einem Seeungeheuer in der Nähe des Dorfes Drim. Aber dann ist er plötzlich tot. Offenbar starb er an einer Überdosis Drogen. Hamish Macbeth findet das Ableben des Jungen ein bisschen sehr merkwürdig - und seine Spürnase hat den schottischen Dorfpolizisten noch nie getäuscht! Daher beschließt er, undercover zu ermitteln, und schleust sich in den illegalen Drogenhandel im nahe gelegenen Strathbane ein.

Maggie Baird nie jest ani miła, ani uprzejma, ale za to jest bardzo bogata. Kiedy ginie w pożarze samochodu, Hamish ma aż pięciu kandydatów do roli mordercy – nieśmiałą krewną i czterech byłych kochanków Maggie, spośród których usiłowała wybrać sobie męża. Rzecz jasna, wszyscy mieli okazję, by majstrować przy aucie denatki. Odkrycie sprawcy będzie wymagało od Hamisha nadzwyczajnego sprytu.

Najbardziej znienawidzony mieszkaniec najbardziej ponurego miasta Szkocji pływa brzuchem do góry w zbiorniku pełnym skorupiaków. Gdy wszyscy martwią się, żeby na stoły najznakomitszych brytyjskich restauracji trafiły wyłącznie towarzyszące mu homary, na talerzu Hamisha Macbetha ląduje szyta grubymi nićmi afera. Tym razem będzie musiał uporać się z naczelnym inspektorem, który chce zatuszować sprawę morderstwa, z piękną dziewczyną, która usiłuje go uwieść, oraz z mordercą, który już szykuje kolejną ucztę.