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...

Unlike quite a number of people, Agatha had not given up on Christmas. To have the perfect Christmas had been a childhood dream whilst surviving a rough upbringing in a Birmingham slum. Holly berries glistened, snow fell gently outside, and inside, all was Dickensian jollity. And in her dreams, James Lacey kissed her under the mistletoe, and, like a middle-aged sleeping beauty, she would awake to passion once more... Agatha Raisin is bored. Her detective...

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.

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.