Killing Time

Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-the star of her own hit T.V. series-is back on the case again.

Agatha Raisin's private detective agency is working flat out on a series of shop burglaries. The break-ins seem to have taken a violent turn when a friend of Agatha's is murdered during a raid on his shop. Although determined to nail the villains, Agatha still makes time to help Sir Charles Fraith prepare to stage a massive, hugely glamorous, promotional event in the grounds of his ancestral home, Barfield House.

When Agatha begins to receive death threats and narrowly avoids being abducted by kidnappers, she takes advantage of a previously arranged trip to Mallorca to lie low for a while. There she meets her partner, former police officer John Glass, who is now working as a dance instructor on a cruise liner. Their relationship founders over John's apparent closeness to his stage dance partner, Louise. Putting her love life on hold, Agatha heads home, having worked out who has been threatening her life.

Can Agatha track down whoever it is that wants her dead, nail her friend's murderers and rescue her romance with John Glass? Everything comes to a climax at the Barfield Extravaganza when Agatha also manages to solve a 400-year-old Cotswold murder mystery!
M. C. BEATON (1936-2019), the "Queen of Crime" (The Globe and Mail), was the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Agatha Raisin novels-the basis for the hit show on Acorn TV and public television-as well as the Hamish Macbeth series and the Edwardian Murder Mysteries.

A long-time friend of M. C. Beaton, R.W. GREEN has written numerous works of fiction and non-fiction.
"R.W. Green shares an exciting, pacy tale of Agatha... If you've never read this type of cosy crime with a sardonic grin (and a taste for gin), I advise you to do so." -The Belfast Telegraph on Dead on Target

"Delightful." -Woman's World, Best New Books on Devil's Delight

"This mystery's got everything." -USA Today on Devil's Delight

"Trademark Beaton." -Booklist (starred) on Down the Hatch

"Green...ably continues the adventures of private detective Agatha Raisin, thorn in the side of conservative Cotswold society, in the diverting 32nd installment of this bestselling series...The prose sparkles as usual."

-Publishers Weekly on Down the Hatch

"Superb." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Hot to Trot

"Once you meet Agatha Raisin, you'll keep coming back." -New York Journal of Books

"M.C. Beaton has a foolproof plot for the village mystery." -The New York Times Book Review

"Beaton has a winner in the irrepressible, romance-hungry Agatha." -Chicago Sun-Times