Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye - M.C. Beaton

Mrs Tamworthy, a nouveau-riche lady of the manor who owns the village of Lower Tapor, is afraid that she is about to be murdered by one of her own family. She invites the local amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin to her 80th birthday party, where the inevitable happens. Agatha soon discovers that the local villagers as well as Mrs Tamworthy's family have good reasons to wish her dead. Joining Agatha for this investigation is teenager Toni Gilmour, who seems to have an in-born knack for detective work, but whose youthful charms make Agatha feel old and dowdy. Inter-woven with the story are Agatha's continued yearning for her ex-husband James Lacey and her ...  Read the complete review