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DANCING LIGHTS, DISAPPEARING VALUABLES....AND MURDER- A FANCIFUL MYSTERY FOR THE INDOMITALTE AGATHAFeeling jilted, cross and desperate to reclaim the love of her life, James, Agatha Raisin follows a fortune teller's advice and rents a cottage in the picturesque village of Fryfam, where she hopes good fortune and true love will come chasing after her.Adding a bit of spice to her adventure, she's pronounced to the locals that she's a mystery writer penning a whodunit called Murder at the Manor. Unfortunately, her romantic notions are quickly dispelled by strange doings here in Fryfam. What are those strange lights in her backyard?Who is stealing paintings and pottery?Where are her beloved cats? And who murdered the local squire-ironically, at the manor?Agatha's nose for trouble leads her into a hodge-podge of jealousy, blackmail and dangerous liaisons-and a murderer who plans to keep irrepressible Agatha here in Fryfam permanently, as a resident corpse.AUTHORBIO: M.C. BEATON, the Scottish-born author of nine previous Agatha Raisin novels as well as the Hamish Macbeth mystery series, lives in a village in the English Cotswolds.Beaton, M. C. is the author of 'Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam' with ISBN 9780312976262 and ISBN 0312976267.
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