Love, Lies & Liquor (1)agatha Raisin : Season 4... -

"I didn't kill her!" Agatha protested to James as they sat in a drafty interview room. "I just wanted her to stop talking about rum!"

But the next morning, the legend of the liquor turned into a reality of blood. Geraldine Wentworth was found face-down in a giant decorative clam shell on the promenade, strangled with a yoga strap. Love, Lies & Liquor (1)Agatha Raisin : Season 4...

Their romantic getaway hit a snag within hours. The town was hosting a "Health and Wellness" weekend, which meant the local pubs were serving kale smoothies instead of gin, and the hotel was filled with middle-aged men in Lycra. Among them was Geraldine Wentworth, a local busybody and the self-appointed queen of the Snoth-on-Sea social scene. "I didn't kill her

So, when James Lacey suggested a trip to the faded, salt-crusted seaside town of Snoth-on-Sea to revisit his childhood haunts, Agatha agreed—not out of nostalgia, but because she had visions of romantic moonlit strolls and James finally admitting he couldn't live without her. Their romantic getaway hit a snag within hours

Instead, she found herself standing in the lobby of the Palm Court Hotel, a building that smelled aggressively of boiled cabbage and damp carpets.

The local police, led by a Detective Inspector who looked like he’d rather be anywhere else, immediately pegged Agatha as a "person of interest." Apparently, her loud complaint about Geraldine’s "insufferable prattling" the night before had been overheard by half the hotel.

Agatha Raisin was not a woman built for "relaxing." To Agatha, relaxation was a slippery slope toward boredom, and boredom usually led to her over-tweezing her eyebrows or buying expensive, impractical shoes.