Penelope Keith

"New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-now the star of a hit T.V. show-is back on the case again. 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...

Hired by the Parish councilor of a small community in the Cotswold Hills to investigate the murder of a jolly widow, Agatha Raisin learns about the victim's penchant for keeping borrowed items in a case that is complicated by village secrets and a killer who would make Agatha a next target.

When a Scrooge-like officer with the Health and Safety Board spoils the Costwolds holiday festivities by trumping up reasons to ban town decorations and May Dimwoody's hand-made toys, Agatha Raisin is called on to investigate the officer's subsequent murder

Organizing an outing to an annual pig roast in the Cotswolds, Agatha Raisin is horrified to discover the murdered body of an unpopular local policeman and agrees to investigate on behalf of the victim's ex-wife, who is also subsequently killed.

Amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin investigates a murder at a beauty salon in the neighboring town of Evesham, England

Agatha Raisin investigates the murder of the only uncommitted member of the Ancombe Parish Council voting on whether to allow the Ancombe Water Company to tap into the town's spring

After returning to her home, Agatha Raisin finds herself falling for a charming new neighbor and becomes involved in the investigation of a believed-haunted house and its murdered owner

Newly wed Agatha Raisin becomes the prime suspect when her husband disappears and his former lover is found murdered

Agatha, in an attempt to become popular in the community, enters a cooking contest with a store-bought quiche laced with poison

After six months in London, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village-and her dashing neighbor, James Lacey. Well, sort of. James might not be so interested in Agatha. But soon enough, Agatha becomes consumed by her other passion: crime solving. A woman has been found dead in a lonely field nearby. Her name is Jessica Tartinck, a hiker who infuriated wealthy landowners by insisting on her hiking club's right to trek across their properties....