Author: M. C. Beaton Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Cozy Mystery
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ISBNs: 9780312387020 9781250001917 0312387024 |
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Winter Parva is a "picturesque" (touristy) Cotswold village with gift shops, a medieval market hall, and thatched cottages. After a disappointing Christmas season, the parish council has decided to hold a special event in January, complete with old-fashioned costumes, morris dancing, and a pig roast on the village green. Always one for a good roasting, Agatha Raisin organizes an outing to enjoy the merriment. The rotary spit turning over a bed of blazing charcoals is sure to please on this foggy and blistery evening. But as the fog lifts slightly, the sharp-eyed Agatha notices something peculiar about the pig: a tattoo of a heart with an arrow through it and the name Amy. "Stop!" she screams suddenly. "Pigs don't have tattoos." The "pig," in fact, is Gary Beech, a policeman not exactly beloved by the locals, including Agatha herself. Although Agatha has every intention of leaving matters to the police, everything changes when the Gary's ex-wife, Amy, hires Agatha's detective agency to investigate-and another murder ensues. With that provocation, how could any sleuth as vain and competitive (and secretly insecure) as Agatha do anything other than solve the case herself?
This book is part of the "Agatha Raisin" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Agatha's First Case" First published in 2015 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Spoonful of Poison" First published in 2008 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Perfect Paragon" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Deadly Dance" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Vicious Vet" First published in 1993 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Quiche of Death" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Busy Body" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Hiss and Hers" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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