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He was a hairdresser to dye for.
The local ladies all deem Mr. John a wizard, so when Agatha finds a few grey hairs on her head—and the rinse she tries at home turns her hair purple—she makes a beeline for the handsome Evesham hairdresser. And as well as sorting out her hair it soon becomes clear the charming man also has designs on her heart—but their budding romance is cut short when Mr. John is fatally poisoned in his
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 14
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Agatha's handsome new neighbor, Paul Chatterton, shows up on her doorstep and soon lures her into an investigation of a haunted house
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Agatha Raisin volume 4
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When the quarrelsome head of the Dembley Ramblers Association turns up dead in the field of the local baronet, Agatha Raisin sets out to clear Sir Charles Fraith's name in another attempt to gain community acceptance.
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Agatha Raisin volume 2
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Life in the English Cotswolds was more boring than Agatha thought it would be. After interminable tea parties, she manages to get a date with the controversial new veterinarian, who then has the audacity to not show up. Soon he is found killed, and Agatha is quickly on the case, trying to find his murderer.
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 13
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Agatha Raisin teams up with her handsome neighbor John Armitage to investigate when the beatific new curate, Tristan Delon, is found dead in the vicar's study.
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 20
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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 upon a holiday and flies to Istanbul, where unfortunately she bumps into James and his fiance not once but twice -- convincing him she is stalking them. So when...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 5
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Agatha Raisin is tying the knot with James Lacey before he can have second thoughts. After all her first husband, Jimmy, must be dead from alcohol poisoning. But Jimmy hears the news among London's down-and-outs--and reaches Carsley in time to stop Agatha from committing bigamy. Jilted by James and angry, Agatha pushes Jimmy into a ditch -- where he is later found strangled. Prime suspects Agatha and James, are thrown together again by their investigation...
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Agatha Raisin volume 16
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Agatha is hired to find out whether a man's wife is cheating on him. She also offers to investigate the death of a missing teenager free of charge. The man is then poisoned and his wife hires Agatha to find the real killer after she is accused of murdering her husband.
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 7
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"This time, the feisty sleuth stumbles upon the victim of an unnatural death in a Cotswold village's famous natural spring. Who was the unlucky corpse? The Ancombe Parish Council chairman, and the only uncommitted member voting on whether to allow the Ancombe Water Company to tap into the town's spring. Add ex-fiance James, watery politicians, and slippery entrepreneurs to the mix, and you have Agatha up to her neck in a murky murder mystery."--Back...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 25
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2014.
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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 stage until a trapdoor opens... followed by a scream and silence! Surely this wasn't the way the scene was rehearsed? When it turns out the local baker had been...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 23
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Agatha has fallen in love -- again. This time it's the local gardener, George Marston, she has her eye on. But competition for his attention abounds. With her shameless determination Agatha will do anything to get her man -- including footing the bill for a charity ball in town just for the chance to dance with him. But when George is a no-show Agatha goes looking for him -- and finds he has been murdered, having been bitten by a poisonous snake and...
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Agatha Raisin mystery volume 34
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2023.
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"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, declares the death a tragic accident, believing the victim has been hit by a stray arrow from an archery demonstration. Agatha is convinced of foul play, however,...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 15
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Agatha Raisin has finally opened her own detective agency. But when it seems like all she's doing is looking for missing cats while being outclassed by her sixty-seven year-old secretary, she wonders if she has finally bitten off more than she can chew? When the wealthy Mrs. Laggat-Brown walks in, claiming that her daughter is receiving death threats, Agatha realizes that this is the chance she's been waiting for. But as she careens through the case,...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 22
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2011
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English
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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 protegě 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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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 28
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2017.
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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 brake, screeching to a halt. Right in front of them, aglow in the headlights, a body hangs from a gnarled tree at the edge of town. Margaret Darby, an elderly spinster, has been...
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Agatha Raisin volume 3
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"Never say die. That's the philosophy Agatha Raisin clings to when she comes home to cozy Carsely and finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor neighbor, James Lacey. The beautiful newcomer, Mary Fortune, is superior in every way, especially when it comes to gardening. And Agatha, that rose with many thorns, hasn't a green thumb to her name. With garden Open Day approaching, she longs for a nice juicy murder to remind...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 19
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Cranky but lovable sleuth Agatha Raisinś detective agency has become so successful that she wants nothing more than to take quality time for rest and relaxation. But as soon as she begins closing the agency on weekends, she remembers that when she has plenty of quality time, she doesnt́ know what to do with it. So it doesnt́ take much for the vicar of a nearby village to persuade her to help publicize the church fete---especially when the fairś...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 12
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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. The dead girl is a member of Agatha's exercise class, afloat in a rain-swollen river,...
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2020.
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"When Private Detective Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is to be married to a mysterious socialite, Miss Mary Brown-Field, she sees it as her duty to find out what she can about the woman. Coming up empty, Agatha--out of selfless concern for Charles, of course--does the only sensible thing she can think of: she crashes their wedding, which ends in a public altercation. Nursing a hangover the next morning, she...
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