Agatha Raisin and the witches' tree

232 pages

English language

Published Dec. 30, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-4721-1722-9
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OCLC Number:
960493495

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Cotswolds' inhabitants are used to inclement weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Devere, the new vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They strain to see the road ahead, and then suddenly brake, screeching to a halt. Right in front of them, aglow in the headlights, a body hangs from a gnarled tree at the edge of town. Margaret Darby, an elderly spinster, has been murdered, and the villagers are bewildered as to who would commit such a crime. Agatha Raisin rises to the occasion (a little glad for the excitement, to tell the truth, after a long run of lost cats and divorces on the books). But Sumpton Harcourt is a small and private village, she finds, a place that poses more questions than answers. And when two more murders follow the first, …

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Subjects

  • Private investigators
  • Murder
  • Investigation
  • Fiction

Places

  • England
  • Cotswold Hills
  • Cotswold Hills (England)