M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
It can be hell in high water!
Drowned brides are like buses: nothing for ages, then two come along at the same time...
Abandoned by husband James, Agatha hops on a plane to the South Pacific, hoping to mend her broken heart. But there she meets a happy honeymooning couple, for whom disaster strikes when, tragically, the bride drowns. Back home, alarm bells start ringing for Agatha when a woman, dressed in a wedding gown, is swept down river. The police say suicide, but Agatha, spurred on by recent memories, particularly her own disastrous marriage, sets out to prove them wrong.

Praise for M.C. Beaton:
'The detective novels of M.C. Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status' -- The Times
'Agatha Raisin - sharp, witty, hugely intelligent, unfailingly entertaining, delightfully intolerant and oh-so magnificently non-PC. M.C. Beaton has created a national treasure' -- Anne Robinson

M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came. Queen of the Village Mystery. Constable, ISBN: 9781472121363 (January, 2016), 266 p., £7.99.

M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came (UK 2010)

From the Publisher:
Agatha's in deep waters again...
Drowned brides are like buses: nothing for ages, then two come along at the same time...
Abandoned by husband James, Agatha hops on a plane to the South Pacific, hoping to mend her broken heart. But there she meets a happy honeymooning couple, for whom disaster strikes when, tragically, the bride drowns. Back home, alarm bells start ringing for Agatha when a woman, dressed in a wedding gown, is swept down river. The police say suicide, but Agatha, spurred on by recent memories, particularly her own disastrous marriage, sets out to prove them wrong.

Praise for M.C. Beaton:
'Sharp, witty, hugely intelligent, unfailingly entertaining... M.C. Beaton has created a national treasure' -- Anne Robinson, The Times
'An enchanting series... M.C. Beaton has a foolproof plot for the village mystery.' -- New York Times Book Review

M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came. Hell comes with high water... Robinson, ISBN: 9781849011457 (May, 2010), 267 p., £6.99.

M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came (UK 2006)

From the Publisher:
One drowned bride is unfortunate - but two of them...
Abandoned by new husband James, Agatha Raisin hops on a plane to the South Pacific in the hope that an idyllic holiday will bring some consolation. There, she befriends a honeymooning couple but, tragically, the young bride is accidentally drowned. Returning home to the Cotswolds Agatha finds herself involved in a strangely similar situation -- a woman, dressed in a wedding gown, is found floating in the river. The police say suicide but Agatha, spurred on by bitter reflections on the married state, sets out to prove them wrong.

Praise for the Agatha Raisin series
'A refreshing and delightful series.' -- Library Journal
'Beaton's dry sense of humour and her unflattering but affectionate portrait of gruff, often adolescent-acting Agatha makes this... a bloom worth picking.' -- Publishers Weekly
'Agatha Raisin is the strongest link.' -- Anne Robinson

M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came. Robinson, ISBN: 1845293789 (August, 2006), 268 p., £5.99.

M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came (USA 2003)

From the Publisher:
'TIL DEATH DO YOU PART...
Crankier than ever, Agatha Raisin wants to forget that her husband left her to enter a monastery -- a turn of affairs more humiliating than when she caught him with a mistress. She feels abandoned, fat, frumpy, and absolutely furious. What are her options? She takes an island vacation and joins a Pilates class. But what finally lifts her spirits is finding a corpse. The dead girl is a member of Agatha's exercise class, afloat in a rain-swollen river, dressed in a bridal gown, and clutching a wedding bouquet. Agatha's policeman friend Bill Wong suggests she leave this macabre murder to the Worcester CID. Pah! What do they know? Once she enlists the aid of the bachelor mystery writer next door, puts on a disguise, and interviews some likely suspects, Agatha will be her brash, redoubtable self again -- unless she becomes the killer's next victim...

"A true village mystery with a heroine so timely and real, you'll want to meet her at the pub." -- St. Petersburg Times
"Funny, breezy, and very enjoyable." -- Midwest Book Review

M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came. St. Martin's Paperbacks, ISBN: 031298586X (October, 2003), 230 p., $6.50.

M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
MARITAL BLISS WAS SHORT-LIVED FOR AGATHA RAISIN.
Her marriage to James Lacey was a disaster from the beginning, and in the end, he left her-not for another woman, but for God. After having been miraculously cured of a brain tumor, James has decided to join a monastery in France. Agatha can usually depend on her old friend, Sir Charles Fraith, to be there when times are tough, but even Charles has abandoned her, dashing off to Paris to marry a young French tart.

Miserable and alone, Agatha hops on a plane and heads for a remote island in the South Pacific. To Agatha's surprise, she makes friends with her fellow travelers easily, and keeps herself out of mischief, despite the odd feeling she gets from one particularly attractive honeymooning couple. But when she later finds that the pretty bride has drowned under suspicious circumstances, Agatha wishes she had found a way to intervene.

Returning home to the Cotswolds, Agatha is grimly determined to move on with her life and to forget about James and Charles. They have, after all, forgotten about her. And what better way than to throw herself into another murder investigation? A woman, dressed in a wedding gown and still clutching her bouquet, has just been found floating in a river. The police say it's suicide, but Agatha suspects the girl's flashy young fiancé. With the help of her handsome, and single, new neighbor, Agatha sets off to prove the police wrong.

M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came. St. Martin's Paperbacks, ISBN: 0312207670 (July, 2002), 213 p., $22.95.