Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death

M. C. Beaton

Robinson, 2006 - Fiction - 250 pages

Agatha Raisin's neighbouring village of Ancombe is usually the epitome of quiet rural charm, but the arrival of a new mineral water company - which intends to tap into the village spring - sends tempers flaring and divides the parish council into two stubborn camps. When Agatha, who happens to be the PR person for the company, finds the council chairman murdered at the basin of the spring, tongues start wagging. Could one of the council members have silenced the chairman before he could cast the deciding vote? It is up to Agatha, still nursing a bruised heart, to investigate the councillors, solve the crime - and promote the water company in the face of all this scandal!

About the author

M. C. Beaton's real name is Marion Chesney. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1936. She has written over a hundred books under her own name and other pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Helen Crampton, Jennie Tremaine, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester. She started her writing career while working as a fiction buyer for a bookstore in Glasgow. Working at one time or another as a theater critic, newspaper reporter, and editor, she used her British background to write a series of regency romances set in England and Scotland. Some of her regency romances include The Folly, Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue, and Regency Gold. In 1986, she was awarded the Romantic Times Award for Outstanding Regency Series Writer. She has also written two mystery series under the pseudonym M. C. Beaton: The Hamish Macbeth Series, which became the inspiration for a television show in England, and The Agatha Raisin Series, about a retired advertising executive.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death; Agatha Raisin, M. C. Beaton; Book 7 of An Agatha Raisin Mystery Series
• Author: M. C. Beaton
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Robinson, 2006
• ISBN: 1845293193, 9781845293192
• Length: 250 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths