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Agatha Raisin : pushing up daisies [Paperback]

Beaton, M.C2016
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Lord Bellington has enraged locals by saying he is going to sell off their allotments to make way for a new housing development. So when he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, nobody mourns his passing. On another fine summer's day, Agatha visits Carsley's allotments where everything looks peaceful and perfect: people of all ages digging in the soil and working hard to grow their own fruit and veg. Agatha feels almost tempted to take on a strip herself . . . but common sense soon prevails. She doesn't really like getting her hands dirty. She is introduced to three keen gardeners; Harry Perry, Bunty Daventry and Josephine Merriweather are lamenting the neglected condition of a patch that has become available. But as Harry starts to shovel through the weeds and grass his spade comes across something hard so he bends down and tries to move the object. And he starts to yell . . . The body is that of Peta Currie, a newcomer to the village - but who would want to murder her? Blonde and beautiful, she's every local male's favourite. And then Lord Bellington's son engages Agatha to do some digging of her own and very soon Agatha is thrown into a world of petty feuds, jealousies and disputes over land. It would seem that far from being tiny gardens of Eden, Carsley's allotments are local battlefields where passions - and the bodycount - run high!
Author:
Beaton, M.C, author
Imprint:
London : Constable, 2016.©2016
Collation:
232 pages ; 23 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
First published in the US in 2016 by Minotaur Books, an imprint of St Martin's Press.
ISBN:
9781472117212 (hardback)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
283686
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Brighton LibraryAdult Fiction - CrimeBEATAvailable
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