title: Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 8)
author:  M. C. Beaton 
description: <i>"She was a stocky middle-aged woman with good legs, a round face and small bearlike eyes which looked suspiciously out at the world. Her hair had always been her pride, thick and brown and glossy."</i>
zlib_text: **Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham**
  
    
  
   **M C Beaton**
  
   _After a home dye job ruins her hair, Agatha Raisin, the prickly yet lovable
  amateur sleuth, turns to the wonderful new hairdresser in the neighboring town
  for help. And as Agatha soon learns, Mr. John is as skilled at repairing her
  coiffure as he is at romancing her heart. But the charming Mr. John isn't all
  he appears to be. According to gossip around the salon and the village, some
  of his former clients seem to be afraid of him. Could Mr. John really be a
  ruthless blackmailer? When a murderer strikes at the busy salon, Agatha must
  discover the truth and the killer's identity before it's too late._
  
    
  
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  > > **Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham**
  
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  The eighth book in the Agatha Raisin series, 1999
  
   _The author wishes to thank Marie Steele of Thomas Oliver,_
  
   _the real wizard of Evesham, for her help in this book._
  
    
  
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