Agatha Raisin and the perfect paragon - M. C. Beaton

She's practically perfect in every way!

After being
nearly killed by both a hired hit man and her former secretary, Agatha
Raisin could use some low-key cases. So when Robert Smedley walks
through the door of her detective agency, determined to prove that his
wife is cheating on him, Raisin Investigations immediately offers to
help.

Unfortunately for Agatha, Mabel Smedley appears to be the
perfect wife: young, pretty, and a regular volunteer at church. But just
as Agatha is ready to give up, Smedley is poisoned with weed killer,
leaving Mabel, the prime suspect, to inherit a fortune.

With no
one left to pay her, Agatha has to drop the investigation . . . that is,
until her old friend Sir Charles Fraith turns up again to rekindle her
curiosity in the case.


Praise for the Agatha Raisin series:

'Sharp, witty, hugely intelligent, unfailingly entertaining, delightfully intolerant and oh so magnificently non-PC, M.C. Beaton has created a national treasure' Anne Robinson

'M.C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem' Publishers Weekly

'The Miss Marple-like Raisin is a refreshing, sensible, wonderfully eccentric, thoroughly likeable heroine' Booklist