The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin Series #1) » (First Edition)

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

Beloved author M.C. Beaton has delighted readers and fans alike with her Agatha Raisin mysteries. Discover the first novel in the series that started it all…

TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE QUICHE…

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 entry—but falls over dead! After her quiche's 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 coroner's tag on her toe…

"Beaton, author of the Hamish MacBeth series has created the best English sleuth since Miss Marple. Write home about this one."

—Tulsa World

Publishers Weekly

Beaton launches a new mystery series with this delicious romp about a baking contest judge in a small English town who is poisoned by a quiche. (Dec.)