Agatha Raisin is back and as feisty as ever-armed with her famous wit and biting sense of humor. This time, though, there's some biting of a whole other sort going
on. Agatha has fallen head over heels in love-again. She has her eye on the local gardener, George Marston, but then again, of the other women in their little Cotswold village. Shameless and determined, Agatha will do anything to get her man-including footing the bill for a charity ball just for the chance to dance with him. Agatha dresses to the nines in an exquisite gold silk
gown and matching heels. Except things go terribly wrong-including George's failure to appear at the ball and a murder involving a poisonous snake.
Agatha rallies her little detective agency to find the killer and discovers that George had quite a complicated love life. But murderously complicated? Well, if she can't have George, at least Agatha can have the satisfaction of confronting the other women and, of course, solving the crime.
Once again, "M. C. Beaton has a foolproof plot for the village mystery" (The New York Times Book Review) in the irresistible adventures of the irrepressible Agatha.