19. A Spoonful of Poison
An Agatha Raisin Mystery
by M. C. Beaton
Hardcover: 288 pages
St. Martin's Minotaur
September 30, 2008
ISBN-10: 0312349122
ISBN-13: 978-0312349127

18. Kissing Christmas Goodbye
An Agatha Raisin Mystery
by M. C. Beaton
Hardcover: 256 pages
St. Martin's Minotaur
October 2, 2007
ISBN: 0312349114

Agatha hopes to revive her romance with James Lacey by planning an idyllic Christmas. The murder of a Mrs. Tamworthy at a local manor house should draw her attention away but she seems dead set on doing Christmas.

17. Love, Lies and Liquor
An Agatha Raisin Mystery
by M. C. Beaton
Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
St. Martin's Minotaur
August 28, 2007
ISBN: 0312368771

Agatha's ex-husband, James Lacey, returns. He invites her on a holiday to a seedy seaside resort Snoth-on-Sea. Predictably a murder occurs in their hotel. A guest is strangled with Agatha's scarf!

17. Love, Lies and Liquor
An Agatha Raisin Mystery
by M. C. Beaton
Hardcover: 224 pages
St. Martin's Minotaur
September 19, 2006
ISBN: 0312349106

1. The Quiche of Death
by M. C. Beaton
Paperback: 256 pages
St. Martin's Paperbacks
March 7, 2006
ISBN: 0312939167

Agatha sells her London public relations firm and retires to live in the Cotswolds in pursuit of a lifelong dream. To make a big splash in her new hometown, the village of Carsley, she decides to win the baking contest with a quiche she bought in London. When the leftovers of the quiche prove fatal to the contest judge, Agatha begins her new vocation as an amateur detective.

The new veterinarian in Carsley does not like little pets very much which is strange in itself. Then when he dies from what appears to be an accident, Agatha finds the circumstances suspicious indeed. Teaming up with her handsome and elusive neighbor James Lacey she starts an investigation which leads to more mystery, murder, and the kidnapping of her beloved cats!

Newcomer and expert gardener Mary Fortune, Agatha's rival for the attentions of neighbor James Lacey, is found hanging upside down with her head potted like a plant. Is there a sinister side to gardening in the quiet village of Carsley? Agatha Raisin intends to find out!