Agatha Raisinová, úspěšná londýnská podnikatelka, se ze dne na den rozhodne skoncovat se svým dosavadním životem. Prodá nejen svou PR firmu, ale i londýnský byt a odstěhuje se do poklidné anglické vesničky Carsely, kde si chce užívat předčasný důchod. Jenže po krátkém čase si uvědomí, že Carsely je na ní až moc poklidné a že se jí nedaří navázat přátelské vztahy s místními. Rozhodne se proto zúčastnit tamější soutěže o nejlepší koláč, a to přestože za celý život tak nanejvýš ohřívala jídlo v mikrovlnce. Aby měla šanci vyhrát, koupí koláč v jednom z nejlepších londýnských lahůdkářství a hodlá ho vydávat za svůj výtvor. Jenže soutěž se nakonec nevyvine podle jejích představ, arbitr se na ni dívá skrz prsty a po ochutnání jejího koláče navíc zemře. Agatha je tedy najednou podezřelá z vraždy, a nadto musí přiznat, že podváděla. Aby mohla očistit své jméno, nezbývá jí nic jiného než sama vypátrat, kdo skutečně vraždil.
Agatha Raisin Série
Vstupte do světa půvabných venkovských záhad, kde se svérázná hrdinka pouští do řešení vražd. Tato série sleduje její život plný nevydařených romantických vztahů a nečekaných odhalení. S každým případem se odhaluje více o životě v ospalé vesničce i o samotné protagonistce, která se snaží najít své místo ve světě detektivů i lásky. Je to směs humoru, intrik a kouzla britského venkova.
Doporučené pořadí čtení
Agatha Raisinová nemůže přivyknout životu na venkově, kde jedinou vyhlídkou na vzrušující večery jsou schůze dámského spolku. Když neuspěje se sbližovacími manévry u souseda Jamese Laceyho – plukovníka na odpočinku – chopí se Agatha příležitosti a navštíví nového, pohledného a nezadaného veterináře. Ačkoli Agatinu mourovatému kocourovi vůbec nic neschází, Hodge musí v rámci milostného dobrodružství vytrpět drsné vyšetření. Jeho oběť je naneštěstí zbytečná, neboť zakrátko se najde zvěrolékař mrtvý.
Agatha Raisinová a vražedná setba
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Agatha Raisinová se po zasloužené dovolené vrátí zpátky na venkov a s nelibostí zjistí, že zájem jejího šarmantního staromládeneckého souseda Jamese Laceyho upoutala nová žena. Krásná Mary Fortuneová se do Cotswoldsu přistěhovala teprve nedávno a vypadá to, že Agathu trumfne naprosto ve všem – zejména co se zahradničení týče. A zahrádkářská výstava se blíží mílovými kroky. Kéž by se tak objevila nějaká pěkná vraždička, která by Jamesovi připomněla Agatiny geniální detektivní schopnosti!
Po půlroce stráveném v Londýně se Agatha Raisinová vrací do své milované cotswoldské vesničky a do sousedské blízkosti fešného Jamese Laceyho. Zdá se ale, že Jamese jejich opětovné shledání nechává chladným. Agathu tak brzy pohltí její druhá vášeň: vyšetřování zločinů. V opuštěném poli je nalezena mrtvá žena – Jessica Tartincková, předsedkyně klubu turistů, která doháněla majitele pozemků k nepříčetnosti tím, že trvala na právu výletníků procházet přes jejich půdu. Teď je na Agatě, aby zahájila pátrání...
Agatha Raisinová a manžel na zabití
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Ráno ve svatební den Agathy a Jamese se zdálo být bez mráčku. Čas jejich štěstí však vypršel, když se v kostele objevil její manžel Jimmy, o němž si myslela, že je už dávno mrtvý. Agatha by ho nejraději hned u oltáře zaškrtila, protože James kvůli němu zrušil zasnoubení. Druhý den ráno je Jimmy nalezen mrtvý a Agatha s Jamesem budou muset spojit síly, aby se zbavili podezření, že mu k tomu pomohli.
Agatha Raisinová a zločin na ostrově
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Agatha, majitelka úspěšné PR agentury, se jednoho dne rozhodla, že má Londýna i reklamy dost, a přestěhovala se do idylické vesničky Carsely, kde si chtěla užívat předčasného důchodu. Tvrdá a mazaná podnikatelka by se na poklidném venkově mohla možná nudit, kdyby neobjevila nového koníčka: vyšetřování vražd. Nevěřili byste, na kolik mrtvol na anglickém venkově narazí. Nebo to bude Agathou? I na dovolené na Kypru zřejmě bude moci dokázat, že si před ní žádný vrah nemůže být jistý.
Agatha Raisin's neighbouring village of Ancombe is usually the epitome of quiet rural charm, but the arrival of a new mineral-water company - which intends to tap into the village spring - sends tempers flaring and divides the parish council into two stubborn camps. When Agatha, who just happens to be handling the PR for the water company, finds the council chairman murdered at the basin of the spring, tongues start wagging.
Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
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After a home dye job ruins her hair, Agatha Raisin, the prickly yet lovable amateur sleuth, turns to the wonderful new hairdresser in the neighbouring town for help. And as Agatha soon learns, Mr. John is as skilled at repairing her coiffure as he is at romancing her heart. But the charming Mr John isn't all he appears to be. According to gossip around the salon and the village, some of his former clients seem to be afraid of him. Could Mr John really be a ruthless blackmailer? When a murderer strikes at the busy salon, Agatha must discover the truth and the killer's identity before it's too late
Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadde
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After being shaved bald during a previous case, Agatha Raisin goes to a seaside resort and enlists the aid of a local witch to grow her hair back, putting her right in the middle of things when the witch is found dead. Reprint.
Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam
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Feeling jilted and cross, Agatha follows a fortune-teller's advice and rents a cottage in the pretty village of Fryfam, where she hopes good fortune and true love will come chasing after her for a change. Unfortunately, her romantic notions are soon dispelled by the strange goings-on in the village. What exactly are those strange lights in Agatha's back garden? Who is stealing paintings and pottery? Where are her beloved cats? And who murdered the local squire... Agatha's nose for trouble leads her into a maelstrom of jealousy, blackmail and dangerous liaisons - and a murderer who plans to keep irrepressible Agatha permanently in Fryfam - as a resident corpse!
Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell
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Agatha and James Lacey finally marry, but Agatha feels the honeymoon is over when, after a very nasty, public marital row, James disappears. When his mistress is later found murdered, James becomes the prime suspect. Now Agatha must piece the most unsavory parts of the dead woman's past to clear James's name--and her own. Martin's Press.
Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came
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Tetchy Agatha Raisn's attempt at a little R&R in the wake of her beloved husband's defection to a French monastery gets her revved up for another mystery when she hears that a fellow vactioner was murdered.
Agatha Raisin and the Curious Curate
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Agatha is going through a man-hating phase and so is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate. But when she meets the golden-haired, blue eyed Tristan Delon, she is swept off her feet ... along with every other female in the village. She is positively ecstatic when he invites her to dine with him but the next day Agatha is left with a hangover from hell - and his cold corpse suggests that, once again, she's in the frame for murder! Agatha and her handsome neighbour, John Armitage, investigate.
Agatha Raisin and the haunted house
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Just back from an extended stay in London, Agatha Raisin finds herself greeted by torrential rains and an old, familiar feeling of boredom. When her handsome new neighbor, Paul Chatterton, shows up on her doorstep, she tries her best to ignore his obvious charms, but his sparkling black eyes and the promise of adventure soon lure her into another investigation. Paul has heard rumors about Agatha's reputation as the Cotswold village sleuth and wastes no time offering their services to the crotchety owner of a haunted house. Whispers, footsteps, and a cold white mist are plaguing Mrs. Witherspoon, but the police have failed to come up with any leads, supernatural or otherwise. The neighbors think it's all a desperate ploy for attention, but Paul and Agatha are sure something more devious is going on. Someone's playing tricks on Mrs. Witherspoon, and when she turns up dead under suspicious circumstances, Agatha finds herself caught up in another baffling murder mystery.
The Deadly Dance
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Frustrated by a series of small jobs after opening her own detective agency, Agatha Raisin places the fledgling agency's reputation on the line by alienating her friends and flirting with a chief suspect.
Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon
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After nearly being killed by a hit man & her former secretary, Agatha Raisin could do with some low-key cases. So when Robert Smedley walks through the door, determined to prove his wife has been cheating on him, it seems like the ideal assignment.
Agatha Raisin thinks she's in for a treat when her ex-husband invites her on a holiday, but to her horror, his idea of an exotic destination is a small, rundown town called Snoth-on-Sea. The break doesn't go as planned. When a guest staying in the same hotel as Agatha is found murdered, Agatha becomes a prime suspect.
Yuletide overindulgence on the poison front . . . During the dark, grey days of early December Agatha is obsessed by two things - the loming festivities, and her ex, James Lacey. In order to drive the latter from her thoughts, Agatha concentrates on planning the perfect Christmas for her friends. Even the murder of a Mrs Tamworthy, poisoned with hemlock, does little to distract her and yet it should, as Mrs Tamworthy had written to Agatha, telling her that one of her family wanted to see her dead before the year was out. So slightly guiltily (and belatedly), Agatha sets out to solve the case before the 25th rolls around . . . Praise for the Agatha Raisin series: 'M.C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem' Publishers Weekly 'The detective novels of M.C. Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status' The Times 'Agatha Raisin is sharp, witty, hugely intelligent, unfailingly entertaining, delightfully intolerant and oh so magnificently non PC. M.C. Beaton has created a new national treasure' Anne Robinson
Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful of Poison
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Cranky but lovable sleuth Agatha Raisin’s 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 doesn’t know what to do with it. So it doesn’t take much for the vicar of a nearby village to persuade her to help publicize the church fete---especially when the fair’s organizer, George Selby, turns out to be a gorgeous widower. Agatha brings out the crowds for the fete, all right, but there’s more going on than innocent village fun. Several of the offerings in the jam-tasting booth turn out to be poisoned, and the festive family event becomes the scene of two murders. Along with her young and (much to her dismay) pretty sidekick, Toni, Agatha must uncover the truth behind the jam tampering, keep the church funds safe from theft, and expose the nasty secrets lurking in the village---all while falling for handsome George, who may have secrets of his own.
Agatha Raisin. There goes the bride
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Bossy, impulsive, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha is dreading the upcoming marriage of her ex-husband, James Lacey. Her best intentions to move on with her life are put on hold when James's young bride is shot to death just minutes before saying I do, and Agatha is named the prime suspect.
Agatha Raisin has never been one for enforced holiday cheer, but her friendly little village of Carsely has always prided itself on its traditional Christmas festivities. But this year the bells will not be ringing out Silent Night.
Agatha Raisin: As the Pig Turns
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The as ever eagerly awaited 22nd installment of Agatha Raisin.
Agatha Raisin. Hiss and Hers
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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. When George is a no-show at a charity ball Agatha goes looking for him and finds he has been murdered, having been bitten by a poisonous snake and buried in a compost heap.
Agatha Raisin: Something Borrowed, Someone Dead
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'The detective novels of M C Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status.' Anne Robinson The Times
The Blood of an Englishman
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The Blood of an Englishman continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series—now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television. "Fee, fie, fo, fum. I smell the blood of an Englishman..." Even though Agatha Raisin loathes amateur dramatics, her friend Mrs. Bloxby, the vicar's wife, has persuaded her to support the local pantomime. Stifling a yawn at the production of "Babes in the Woods," Agatha watches the baker playing an ogre strut and threaten on the stage, until a trapdoor opens and the Ogre disappears in an impressive puff of smoke. Only he doesn't re-appear at final curtain. Surely this isn't the way the scene was rehearsed? When it turns out the popular baker has been murdered, Agatha puts her team of private detectives on the case. They soon discover more feuds and temperamental behavior in amateur theatrics than in a professional stage show—and face more and more danger as the team gets too close to the killer. The Blood of an Englishman is Agatha's 25th adventure, and you'd think she would have learned by now not to keep making the same mistakes. Alas, no—yet Agatha's flaws only make her more endearing. In this sparkling new entry in M. C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling series of modern cozies, Agatha Raisin once again "manages to infuriate, amuse, and solicit our deepest sympathies as we watch her blunder her way boldly through another murder mystery" (Bookreporter.com).
Agatha Raisin: Dishing the Dirt
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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 Agatha firmly believed Gwen to have assisted her son in some grisly murders, although has no proof she had done so. A resentment is different from a dislike and needs to be shared, so as the friendship between James and Jill grows stronger, the more Agatha does to try to find out all she can about her. When Jill is found strangled to death in her office two days' later, Agatha finds herself under suspicion - and must fight to clear her name.
Agatha Raisin: Pushing up Daisies
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Lord Bellington 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 Carsley's allotments where everything looks peaceful and perfect: people of all ages digging in the soil and working hard to grow their own fruit and veg. Agatha feels almost tempted to take on a strip herself but common sense soon prevails. She doesn't really like getting her hands dirty. She is introduced to three keen gardeners; Harry Perry, Bunty Daventry and Josephine Merriweather are lamenting the neglected condition of a patch that has become available. But as Harry starts to shovel through the weeds and grass his spade comes across something hard so he bends down and tries to move the object. And he starts to yell. The body is that of Peta Currie, a newcomer to the village - but who would want to murder her? Blonde and beautiful, she's every local male's favourite. And then Lord Bellington's son engages Agatha to do some digging of her own and very soon Agatha is thrown into a world of petty feuds, jealousies and disputes over land. It would seem that far from being tiny gardens of Eden, Carsley's allotments are local battlefields where passions - and the bodycount - run high!
Agatha Raisi and the Witches' Tree
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The Witches’ Tree continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series―now a hit T.V. show. 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 murdered―and the villagers are bewildered as to who would commit such a crime. Agatha Raisin rises to the occasion (a little glad for the excitement, to tell the truth, after a long run of lost cats and divorces on the books). But Sumpton Harcourt is a small and private village, she finds―a place that poses more questions than answers. And when two more murders follow the first, Agatha begins to fear for her reputation―and even her life. That the village has its own coven of witches certainly doesn't make her feel any better...
Agatha Risin and the Dead Ringer
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The team of bells at St. Ethelred church is the pride and glory of the idyllic Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna, together with the most dedicated bell ringers in the whole of England: the twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin. As the village gets ready for the Bishop's visit, the twins get overly-excited at the prospect of ringing the special peal of bells created for the occasion and start bullying the other bell ringers, forcing them to rehearse and rehearse... so much so that Joseph Kennell, a retired lawyer, yells at the sisters that he 'felt like killing them'! When the twins' home is broken into one night and Millicent is found dead, struck from a hammer blow, suspicion falls onto the lawyer. Will Agatha unmask the real killer and clear Joseph's name?
Agatha Raisin: Beating about the Bush
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When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems. The factory mystery soon turns to murder and a bad-tempered donkey turns Agatha into a national celebrity, before bringing her ridicule and shame. To add to her woes, Agatha finds herself grappling with growing feelings for her friend and occasional lover, Sir Charles Fraith. Then, as a possible solution to the factory murder unfolds, her own life is thrown into deadly peril. Will Agatha get her man at last? Or will the killer get her first?
Agatha Raisin: Hot to trot
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Private Detective Agatha Raisin immerses herself in the glittering lifestyle of the fabulously wealthy when Sir Charles Fraith is accused of murder - and Agatha is named as his accomplice! A high-society wedding, a glitzy masked ball, and an introduction to the world of international show-jumping where the riders are glamorous, the horses are beautiful, and intrigue runs deep, leave Agatha with a list of suspects as long as a stallion's tail. Sinister evidence then emerges that appears to seal Sir Charles's fate and Agatha must uncover the truth before a net of skulduggery closes around him and he loses his ancestral home, his entire estate, and his freedom.
