LOVE LIES AND LIQUOR

Love Lies and Liquor continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton''s beloved Agatha Raisin cozy mystery series―now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.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 fight with Agatha in the dining room. But trouble has a way of following Agatha even if romance does not: Just as she and James are preparing to flee to warmer climes Geraldine Jankers is found dead on the beach―strangled with Agatha''s scarf. So much for Agatha''s holiday fantasies: Not only is it time to put her detective skills to work but the police are not even sure that she''ll be allowed to leave town.