Celebrating the 20th anniversary of everyone's favourite sleuth, M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin is as feisty as ever, following AS THE PIG TURNS. Agatha has fallen head over heels in love - again. This time, she has her eye on the local gardener, George Marston, but so do other women in their little Cotswold village. When George doesn't show up for a charity ball, Agatha goes looking for him, and finds his dead body in a compost heap. Murder is definitely afoot, but this killer chose no ordinary weapon: A poisonous snake delivered the fatal strike.
M. C. BEATON, the British guest of honor at Bouchercon 2006, has been hailed as the "Queen of Crime" (The Globe and Mail). She is the author of twenty-two previous Agatha Raisin novels, whose fans range from the actress Elizabeth Hurley to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Born in Scotland, she now divides her time between Paris and the English Cotswolds.