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Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beatons cranky, crafty Agatha Raisinnow the star of a hit T.V. showis back on the case again.When Private Investigator Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is to be married to a mysterious socialite, Miss Mary Brown-Field, she sees it as her duty to find out what she can about the woman. Coming up empty, Agathaout of selfless concern for Charles, of coursedoes the only sensible thing she can think of: she crashes their wedding, which ends in a public altercation. Nursing a hangover the next morning, she gets a phone call from Charles, with even more disturbing news: Mary has been murdered.Agatha takes on the case, and quickly becomes entrenched in the competitive equestrian world, in which Mary had been enmeshedas well as the victims surprisingly violent past.