Agatha Raisin

- Season 1

(2016)

A public-relations agent leaves London for a seemingly idyllic village in the Cotswolds, and soon finds herself a suspect in a murder case involving a poisoned quiche.

Agatha and James must pose as a married couple and infiltrate a local rambling group, hoping to unearth a murderous secret.

A woman is accused of strangling another villager to death with bell-rope. Agatha Raisin is hired to crack the case.

Roy lures Agatha back into the world of PR. She represents a local mineral water company -- but a murder there throws a spanner in the works.

On the eve of the village's best kept garden contest many of the entrants' gardens are sabotaged. Shortly afterwards a keen contestant is murdered, following a row between the couple. Since the victim's garden was left virtually untouched Agatha initially suspects one of the other contestants, all of whom hated her, but switches her opinion upon meting the dead woman's spoiled daughter and sole heir, Beth, being wrong on both counts. However a new lead is opened up on the discovery that the victim used to be a singer and music provides a clue to Agatha solving the ...

Agatha dates handsome vet Paul Bladen but next day he is murdered, injected with an overdose of horse tranquillizer whilst at Lord Pendlebury's stable. Agatha spots that Pendlebury has a motive, as do Percy Parr, whose wife Harriet was seeing Paul, and spurned receptionist Chloe Mabbs. Then a villager about to divulge a secret about the deceased to Agatha is also killed in the same way. When the murderer kidnaps Agatha's cat in an effort to get her to back off with her investigation this inadvertently provides a clue, enabling Agatha to solve the killings.

The day after Kylie Stokes' wedding to Zac Leeson the bride is murdered and Agatha promises her mother Freda she will find the killer. There are many intrigues surrounding the bridal party, including Kylie's affair with an older businessman whom she was seemingly blackmailing, a mysterious money gift given by Charlie Fraith and a jealous bridesmaid who apparently hated Kylie for stealing Zac from her. However it is an old photo in a local art exhibition which puts Agatha on the road to unmasking the killer.

Wrongly assuming it is a spa weekend, Agatha attends a Special Paranormal Activity group at a forbidding castle, meeting local witch and clairvoyant Francie Juddle, whose tarot card reading foretells Death, though it is Francie who dies. Agatha discovers her murdered body clutching a card that reads Justice. Joined by her friends, Agatha sees this as a sign for her to solve the crime and questions the castle's staff and guests who had recently visited Francie. The dead woman's sister Janine, who also claims to be clairvoyant, holds a séance to unmask the killer, but ...

Agatha's wedding to James is interrupted by her first husband Jimmy, a down and out Agatha had assumed to be dead and who agrees to a divorce - for a financial price. Next day he is found dead and Agatha, seen arguing with him by incomer Karen Hardy, is the prime suspect. Roy's sleuthing reveals that Jimmy was a blackmailer and an alcoholic who stayed at Hunter's House, a rehabilitation clinic not far from the village. Agatha and James unite to track down other residents who were there at the same time as Jimmy, as well as his elusive sponsor, to discover who had ...