The Quiche of Death
by M C Beaton
The Quiche of Death is the first book featuring Agatha Raisin, a 50-something PR executive who leaves London to settle in an idyllic Cotswold village. In this book, Agatha, who can’t cook and lives off frozen meals, is determined to win the village quiche-making competition, and the plot unfolds from there.
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Perhaps the modern book series that most closely resembles The Thursday Murder Club—in featuring a well-heeled female heroine aged 50+ living in the English countryside and in being a parody of the murder-mystery genre—is by MC Beaton, who sadly died last year. Her detective is former PR executive Agatha Raisin, and the first book in the series is called The Quiche of Death. To me, the Agatha Raisin books are hilarious. I read all of them when my kids were tiny and I was home without other adult company a lot. Like The Thursday Murder Club, these are books that offer light-hearted escapism.
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