Love like hell is a four-letter word for Agatha. No happily ever after for her Recently married to neighbour James Lacey Agatha quickly finds that love is not all it''s cracked up to be - soon the newly-weds are living in separate cottages and accusing each other of infidelity. Then after a fight down the local pub James vanishes - a bloodstain the only clue to his fate. Naturally Agatha is Suspect Number One. Determined to clear her name - and find her husband - Agatha begins her investigation and promptly discovers a murdered mistress. Praise for the Agatha Raisin series: ''Sharp witty hugely intelligent unfailingly entertaining delightfully intolerant and oh so magnificently non-PC M. C. Beaton has created a national treasure'' Anne Robinson ''M. C. Beaton''s imperfect heroine is an absolute gem'' Publishers Weekly ''The Miss Marple-like Raisin is a refreshing sensible wonderfully eccentric thoroughly likeable heroine'' Booklist . Language: English