Pushing Up Daisies

Agatha Raisin #28

M.C. Beaton

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Robinson Publishing
13 June 2017

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: Agatha Raisin

Allotment wars!

Lord Bellingham, Carsely's biggest landholder, 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 oldtimers who have just taken over a new strip; Harry Perry, Bunty Daventry and Josephine Merriweather are lamenting the neglected condition of the patch. 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 then 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 Bellingham'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!

By: M.C. Beaton
Imprint: Robinson Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 27
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 170g
ISBN: 9781472117342
ISBN 10: 1472117344
Series: Agatha Raisin
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 13 June 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

M.C Beaton is the author of both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, as well as numerous Regency romances. Her Agatha Raisin books are currently being turned into a TV series on Sky. She lives in Paris and in a Cotswold village that is very much like Agatha's beloved Carsely.

Reviews for Pushing Up Daisies: Agatha Raisin #28

The detective novels of M C Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status The Times Agatha is like Miss Marple with a drinking problem, a pack-a-day habit and major man lust. In fact, I think she could be living my dream life. Entertainment Weekly Another winner for M.C. Beaton fans. My Weekly 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