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Love, lies, and liquor : an Agatha Raisin mystery / M.C. Beaton.

by Beaton, M. C.

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St. Martin's Minotaur, c2006.

Women private investigators -- England -- Fiction.

Women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Seaside resorts -- England -- Fiction.

Cotswold Hills (England) -- Fiction.

Beaton, M. C. Agatha Raisin mysteries ; 17.

9781250162274 (2007 St. Martin's trade pbk.)

9780312368777 (2007 St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.)

231 p. ; 22 cm.

"Agatha Raisin is lonely. Busy as she is with her detective agency and the meetings of the Carsely Ladies’ Society, she still misses her ex-husband, James Lacey, so she welcomes his return to the cottage next door with her usual triumph of optimism over experience---especially when he invites her on holiday at a surprise location that was once very dear to him. With visions of a romantic hideaway in Italy or the Pacific dancing in her head, Agatha goes off happily with James to...Snoth-on-Sea, in Sussex. While James may have fond memories of boyhood holidays there, Snoth-on-Sea has seen better days, as has the once-grand Palace Hotel, now run-down and tacky and freezing cold. Nor do the other guests have much to recommend them, especially the brassy honeymoon couple, Mr. and Mrs. Jankers, who pick a fight with Agatha in the dining room. But trouble has a way of following Agatha even if romance does not: Just as she and James are preparing to flee to warmer climes, Geraldine Jankers is found dead on the beach---strangled with Agatha's scarf. So much for Agatha’s holiday fantasies: Not only is it time to put her detective skills to work, but the police are not even sure that she’ll be allowed to leave town."--Inside jacket.

Mystery fiction.

Cozy mysteries.

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