A Spoonful of Poison

How do you become famous in a tiny village? Bake a flawless pie—or… pull off a flawless murder.

After a dazzling career, Agatha Raisin decides it’s time to stop. She sells her London flat and takes early retirement in cozy Carsley. But the peaceful rural idyll soon turns out to be too quiet for Agatha. She desperately wants to become a notable figure—and there’s no better way than entering a home baking contest.

But everything falls apart when Agatha doesn’t just lose in disgrace—she ends up at the center of a scandal: after a slice of her quiche, the contest judge, Mr. Cummings-Brown, suddenly dies. It soon becomes clear that the “secret ingredient” was poison, and Agatha has to admit an awkward truth… she had never baked it. The pie was bought.

Now Agatha has a new goal: find the murderer and win the locals’ affection. She seems to be getting too close to the solution—because someone starts threatening her. Which will destroy her first: the exposure of the deception, or her unstoppable curiosity?