The Deadly Dance (Agatha Raisin Series #15) » (Reprint)

M.C. BEATON is the author of fourteen previous Agatha Raisin novels, the Hamish Macbeth series, and an Edwardian mystery series written as Marion Chesney. She currently divides her time between Paris and the English Cotswolds.

She's outclassed, outmatched, and outgunned…

Infuriated that her holiday was ruined by a mugging, Agatha Raisin decides to open up her own detective agency. The romance-minded sleuth is thrilled by visions of handsome fellow gumshoes and headline-making crimes—but soon finds the only cases she can get are a non-glamorous lot of lost cats and an errant teenager. But when a wealthy divorcée hires the agency to investigate a death threat against her daughter Cassandra, Agatha thwarts a vicious attack on the heiress bride. Now Agatha is in hot pursuit of the culprit. But when the groom's father turns up dead, Agatha must untangle a growing list of suspects, from Carsely's quiet village lanes to Paris' most fashionable streets. Soon the willfully undaunted Agatha is in trouble with French and British police; on the outs (again) with old friends—and dead in the sights of a murderer.

"Anyone interested in…intelligent, amusing reading will want to make the acquaintance of Mrs. Agatha Raisin."

—Atlanta Journal Constitution

"I simply love mysteries that have all the requirements necessary to make them great—the characters, the action, the plots, and that thing we call humanity. Beaton has them all in

spades."

—Tulsa World

Publishers Weekly

Now ensconced in the Cotswolds village of Carsely, wealthy middle-aged amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin discovers that opening a detective agency isn't as easy as it seems in M.C. Beaton's The Deadly Dance: An Agatha Raisin Mystery, the improbably plotted 15th installment in this English cozy series. Whether deliberate, accidental or unspoken, miscommunication rules-an insistent theme that won't deter Beaton fans but is unlikely to win new readers. Agent, Barbara Lowenstein. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.