Detective Agatha Raisin is fit to be tied. Her ex-husband, James
Lacey, is getting married to Felicity Bross-Tilkington, a rich,
young, beautiful blonde. While Agatha is over him (or so she tells
herself), she is none too eager to attend the wedding. But staying
away will make it look like she's still pining for James, so attend
she will.
Happily, though, Agatha has several friends and colleagues
to accompany her and provide much-needed support, so she sets out
from her cozy village in the English Cotswolds and heads to Sussex.
The pre-wedding party is a fiasco, but the wedding is murder ---
literally. Felicity is found dead before she can make it down the
aisle, setting off a police investigation that places Agatha and
James as prime suspects.
Fate is on their side, though, and both Agatha and James
are able to prove their whereabouts at the time of the murder. As
to be expected, Agatha is hired (by the bride’s mother) to
investigate Felicity’s untimely demise. But the bride's
father is none too keen to have her poking her nose into the affair
--- and neither are the local police. Still, Agatha is not one to
let that stop her; she and her team of detectives are soon on the
case.
As they begin to dig into dirty details of the bride's life,
they find that she wasn't quite the innocent young thing she
pretended to be. While she refused her husband-to-be sex before
marriage, she apparently didn’t have such qualms with other
men. As it turns out, Felicity Bross-Tilkington was quite the
little vixen when she wanted to be. The word
“insatiable” springs to mind.
With this new information coming to light, it doesn't take long
for the list of suspects to grow: a mysterious Frenchman, a su