title: Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 6)
author:  M. C. Beaton 
description: Now that her ex-fiance has run off to Cyprus, Agatha decides that her Cotswold village is boring. She pursues her former intended, witnesses a murder in a disco, and sleuths once more. Another refreshing and delightful series addition.<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  (17/30 Love, Lies and Liquor
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Beaton, M. C.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Minotaur Books (2010)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Agatha Raisin is lonely. Busy as she is with her detective agency and
  
  
  the meetings of the Carsely Ladies' Society, she still misses her
  
  
  ex-husband, James Lacey, so she welcomes his return to the cottage next
  
  
  door with her usual triumph of optimism over experience---especially
  
  
  when he invites her on holiday at a surprise location that was once very
  
  
  dear to him. With visions of a romantic hideaway in Italy or the
  
  
  Pacific dancing in her head, Agatha goes off happily with James
  
  
  to...Snoth-on-Sea, in Sussex.  
  While James may have fond memories of
  
  
  boyhood holidays there, Snoth-on-Sea has seen better days, as has the
  
  
  once-grand Palace Hotel, now run-down and tacky and freezing cold. Nor
  
  
  do the other guests have much to recommend them, especially the brassy
  
  
  honeymoon couple, Mr. and Mrs. Jankers, who pick a 