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Agatha is promoting a charity film evening for Sir Charles Snaith, who has made it clear that the Dembley ramblers group are not welcome on his land. When their outspoken leader Jessica Tartinck is murdered Snaith is the prime suspect but Agatha discovers that Jessica's campaigning and promiscuity did not make her universally popular. Persuading the reluctant object of her affections James Lacey to pose with her as a married couple Agatha infiltrates the ramblers, who include bereaved boyfriend Jeff and gay couple Alice and Kirsty, as well as Deborah, Snaith's fiancée ,to investigate. After surviving a hit and run Agatha believes she has found the killer but then realizes they are possibly the least likely of her suspects.
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Agatha joins the local bell-ringers and quickly encounters discord when vicar's wife Sarah Bloxby suspects her husband Jez of having an affair with the leader, widowed Amanda Ballard. Amanda is found hanged from the bell-rope with a suicide note next to her but her life-style suggests foul play to Agatha, who discovers Amanda's ex-husband very much alive and paying for her expensive tastes. Jez comes under suspicion, having known Amanda before she came to the area, as does Amanda's old school-friend Steph, recently out of rehab. Agatha deduces that Amanda was killed by somebody she was black-mailing but that still leaves rather a lot of suspects.
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Parish council chairman Robert Struthers is murdered before he can deliver the casting vote on whether Ancombe mineral water company should buy a well in the village owned by Robina Toynbee. Agatha falls for Anscombe's charming CEO Guy Freemont whilst handling his publicity drive and leaves the detection work to James and his wife Mary, who suspect other council members and Robert's old love rival Ron Allen, when Robina is also killed. It is also James who saves Agatha from the real murderer and then makes a confession of his own to her.
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On the eve of the village's best kept garden contest many of the entrants' gardens are sabotaged. Shortly afterwards James' other half Mary, a keen contestant, is murdered, following a row between the couple. Since Mary's garden was left virtually untouched Agatha initially suspects one of the other contestants, all of whom hated her, but switches her opinion upon meting Mary's spoilt daughter and sole heir, Beth., being wrong on both counts. However a new lead is opened up on the discovery that Mary used to be a singer and music provides a clue to Agatha solving the murder - and for good measure she also identifies the garden vandals.
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Agatha dates handsome vet Paul Bladen but next day he is murdered, injected with an overdose of horse tranquillizer whilst at Lord Pembury's stable. Agatha spots that Pembury has a motive, as do Percy Parr, whose wife Harriet was seeing Paul, and spurned receptionist Chloe Mabbs. Then a villager about to divulge a secret about the deceased to Agatha is also killed in the same way. When the murderer kidnaps Agatha's cat in an effort to get her to back off with her investigation this inadvertently provides a clue, enabling Agatha to solve the killings.
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The day after Kylie Stokes' wedding to Zac Leeson the bride is murdered and Agatha promises her mother Freda she will find the killer. There are many intrigues surrounding the bridal party, including Kylie's affair with an older businessman whom she was seemingly blackmailing, a mysterious money gift given by Charlie Fraith and a jealous bridesmaid who apparently hated Kylie for stealing Zac from her . However it is an old photo in a local art exhibition which puts Agatha on the road to unmasking the killer.
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Wrongly assuming it is a spa weekend Agatha attends a Special Paranormal Activity group at a forbidding castle, meeting local witch and clairvoyant Francie Juddle, whose taro card reading foretells Death though it is Francie who dies and Agatha discovers her murdered body clutching a card which reads Justice. Joined by her friends Agatha sees this as a sign for her to solve the crime and questions the castle's staff and guests who recently contacted Francie. The dead woman's sister Janine, who also claims to be clairvoyant, holds a séance to unmask the killer but it only produces another corpse and brings Agatha into conflict with investigating officer Inspector Jessop before she cracks the case and receives a proposal from James.
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Agatha's wedding to James is interrupted by her first husband Jimmy, a down and out Agatha had assumed to be dead and who agrees to a divorce - for a financial price. Next day he is found dead and Agatha, seen arguing with him by incomer Karen Hardy, is the prime suspect. Roy's sleuthing reveals that Jimmy was a blackmailer and an alcoholic who stayed at Hunter's House, a rehabilitation clinic not far from the village. Agatha and James unite to track down other residents who were there at the same time as Jimmy, as well as his elusive sponsor, to discover who had cause to silence him.
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Looking to get away for a few days Agatha rents a cottage in Fryfam, a village where mythical fairies are said to live. Before Agatha can start relaxing, however, she is employed, by a local woman to prove that her wealthy husband is having an affair. But the husband winds up dead.
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When a handsome and popular new curate is murdered, Sarah is arrested, and Agatha must dig into his unsavory past to clear her friend's name.
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Agatha opens her own detective agency, but potential clients aren't exactly breaking down the door of her new office. In search of new business, Agatha and James visit Ivy Hall, a house said to be haunted since the English Civil War. Are the strange sounds and unexplained footsteps heard at night truly supernatural, or is someone trying to scare the obnoxious owner out of her home?
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Mrs. Laggat-Brown's daughter has received a death threat, and when Agatha thwarts said attack on the girl at a dinner dance, she sees an opportunity to improve the status of Raisin Investigations in the community.
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