The Quiche of Death: The First Agatha Raisin Mystery (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, 1)

The first book in M. C. Beatons beloved Agatha Raisin mystery seriesnow a hit show on Acorn TV and public television. Putting all her eggs in one basket Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm sells her London flat and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored lonely and used to getting her way she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best quiche will make her the toast of the town. But her recipe for social advancement sours when Judge Cummings-Browne not only snubs her entrybut falls over dead! After her quiches secret ingredient turns out to be poison she must reveal the unsavory truth Agatha has never baked a thing in her life! In fact she bought her entry ready-made from an upper crust London quicherie. Grating on the nerves of several Carsely residents she is soon receiving sinister notes. Has her cheating and meddling landed her in hot water or are the threats related to the suspicious death? It may mean the difference between egg on her face and a coroners tag on her toe