This page lists all of the episodes of the top TV detective series Agatha Raisin in order of release. And the books by M. C. Beaton that these shows are based on.

Agatha Raisin Books Adapted for TV

All of the episodes in the Agatha Raisin series, listed on order of TV release. With details of the books that each episode is based on.

Agatha Raisin books made for TV: Quiche of Death | Walkers of Dembley | Hell’s Bells | Wellspring of Death | Potted Gardener | Vicious Vet | The Day the Floods Came | Witch of Wyckhadden | Murderous Marriage | Wizard of Evesham | Fairies of Fryfam | Case of the Curious Curate | Haunted House | Deadly Dance | Love from Hell | As the Pig Turns | More Top 10 Detective Books and Games Lists

Quiche of Death

Published: 1992 | Book Series Number: 01 | TV Series Number: Pilot.

Plot: Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and settles in for an early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely.

But she soon finds her life of leisure isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Bored, lonely, and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best quiche will make her the toast of the town.

But her recipe for social advancement sours when the judge, Mr. Cummings-Browne, not only snubs her entry but also falls over dead!

After her quiche’s secret ingredient turns out to be poison, she must reveal the unsavory truth. . . .

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Walkers of Dembley

Published: 1995 | Book Series Number: 04 | TV Series Number: Series 01, Episode 01.

Plot: An unexpected hike to the Other Side… After time away, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village of Carsely – and to her handsome neighbour, James Lacey.

True, James seems less than thrilled to see her, but Agatha is soon distracted by a sensational murder.

The victim, found in a field, is young hiker Jessica Tartinck, who spent her life enraging landowners by insisting on her right to roam.

Hope springs eternal in Agatha’s breast as she lures the reluctant James into her investigation.

There are so many leads to follow, for Jessica’s fellow walkers – not to mention the landowners – all seem able to commit murder.

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Hell’s Bells

Published: 2013 | Short Story Number: 02 | TV Series Number: Series 01, Episode 02.

Plot: Widowed Mary Bolton, like Miss Jean Brodie, considers herself in her prime.

Not satisfied with car boot sales, dances at the bowling club and reading to the elderly, she throws herself into bellringing with gusto – much to the annoyance of her neighbours.

But when the industrious Mary is found swinging from a bell rope, Jessica Brand – who only days before had threatened to strangle Mary with the very same rope – fears she will be accused.

There’s nothing left to do but call in private detective Agatha Raisin to untangle the web of sex, money, deceit … and murder.

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Wellspring of Death

Published: 1998 | Book Series Number: 07 | TV Series Number: Series 01, Episode 03.

Plot: Agatha Raisin’s neighbouring village of Ancombe is usually the epitome of quiet rural charm, but the arrival of a new mineral-water company – which intends to tap into the village spring – sends tempers flaring and divides the parish council into two stubborn camps.

When Agatha, who just happens to be handling the PR for the water company, finds the council chairman murdered at the basin of the spring, tongues start wagging.

Could one of the council members have polished off the chairman before he could cast the deciding vote?

Poor Agatha, still nursing a bruised heart from one of her unsuccessful romantic encounters, must get cracking, investigate the councillors and solve the crime.

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Potted Gardener

Published: 1994 | Book Series Number: 03 | TV Series Number: Series 01, Episode 04.

Plot: Agatha goes digging where she shouldn’t …

Agatha is taken aback when she finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor neighbour, James Lacey.

The beautiful Mary Fortune is superior in every way, especially when it comes to gardening – and with Carsely Garden Open Day looming, Agatha feels this deficiency acutely.

So when Mary is discovered murdered, buried upside down in a pot, Agatha seizes the moment and immediately starts yanking up village secrets by their roots and digging the dirt on the hapless victim.

But Agatha has an awkward secret too …

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Vicious Vet

Published: 1993 | Book Series Number: 02 | TV Series Number: Series 01, Episode 05.

Plot: Agatha lets sleeping vets lie … Retired PR boss Agatha Raisin is enjoying life in her pretty Cotswold village of Carsely.

It even seems likely that the attractive new vet, Paul Bladen, has taken a shine to her. But before romance can blossom, Paul is killed in an accident with Lord Pendlebury’s horse.

Only the circumstances are rather suspicious. Agatha decides she must once more play amateur investigator.

And this cloud has a silver lining – she can persuade her usually stand-offish neighbour, James Lacey, to become her partner in the quest.

As usual, Agatha is quite prepared to rush in, heedless of the lurking menace to both James and herself.

Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet book available from: US Amazon, UK Amazon, Apple Books and UK Bookshop.org.

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The Day the Floods Came

Published: 2002 | Book Series Number: 12 | TV Series Number: Series 01, Episode 06.

Plot: 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.

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Witch of Wyckhadden

Published: 1999 | Book Series Number: 09 | TV Series Number: Series 01, Episode 07.

Plot: Left with bald patches thanks to the wicked doings of a murderer from a previous investigation, Agatha flees to coastal Wyckhadden to re-grow her lost locks.

With hair tonic supplied by a local witch, Agatha’s tresses begin to flow – but the witch is found bludgeoned to death.

The odd elderly residents of Agatha’s elegantly faded hotel seem innocuous, but as she delves deeper she discovers secrets best left and powerful motives for revenge.

Balancing the amorous attentions of police inspector Jimmy Jessop with an ever more treacherous search for the killer.

Agatha is at her wits’ end – and ready to cast a spell of her own . . .

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Murderous Marriage

Published: 1996 | Book Series Number: 05 | TV Series Number: Series 01, Episode 08.

Plot: The morning of Agatha’s marriage to James Lacey dawns bright and clear.

But her luck runs out in the church when Jimmy, the husband she had believed long dead, turns up large as life and twice as ugly.

Agatha has a go at strangling him. James breaks off the engagement.

So when Jimmy is found murdered next day, Agatha and James are both the prime suspects.

And they’ll have to work together in order to clear their names . . .

Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage book available from: US Amazon, UK Amazon, Apple Books and UK Bookshop.org.

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Wizard of Evesham

Published: 1999 | Book Series Number: 02 | TV Series Number: Series 02, Episodes 01-02.

Plot: The local ladies all deem Mr John a wizard, so when Agatha finds a few grey hairs on her head – and the rinse she tries at home turns her hair purple – she makes a beeline for the handsome Evesham hairdresser.

And as well as sorting out her hair it soon becomes clear the charming man also has designs on her heart – but their future together is cut short when Mr John is fatally poisoned in his salon.

Once again Agatha finds herself embroiled in a murder case.

Was it one of Mr John’s many customers, all of whom divulged to him their darkest secrets?

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Fairies of Fryfam

Published: 2000 | Book Series Number: 10 | TV Series Number: Series 02, Episode 03-04.

Plot: Agatha’s away with the fairies . . .

And the little folk are causing big trouble for her! Angry at being jilted by new husband James, Agatha follows a fortune-teller’s advice and rents a cottage in pretty Fryfam.

There, she hopes, true love will come chasing after her.

But her romantic notions are dispelled by a series of odd goings-on in the village: strange lights start appearing in her back garden; there are thefts of paintings and pottery; her beloved cats vanish.

And then the local squire is found dead. Agatha’s nose for trouble ensnares her in a maelstrom of jealousy, blackmail and dangerous liaisons, especially with a murderer who plans to keep irrepressible Agatha permanently in Fryfam – as a resident corpse!

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Case of the Curious Curate

Published: 2003 | Book Series Number: 13 | TV Series Number: Series 02, Episodes 05-06.

Plot: He was a vicar to die for – and he did!

Agatha is going through a man-hating phase and so is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate.

But when she meets the golden-haired, blue-eyed Tristan Delon, she is swept off her feet . . . along with every other female in the village.

She is positively ecstatic when he invites her to dine with him but the next day Agatha is left with a hangover from hell – and his cold corpse suggests that, once again, she’s in the frame for murder!

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Haunted House

Published: 2003 | Book Series Number: 14 | TV Series Number: Series 03, Episodes 01-02.

Plot: A vengeful ghost comes back to haunt the living?

Reports of a haunted house soon have Agatha snooping around, but it turns out the victim of the haunting is a universally disliked old biddy on whom someone is playing a practical joke.

And then the old lady is murdered – but for Agatha, solving a crime is much more fun than hunting a ghost!

Very soon she’s up to her usual tricks, involving the villagers, local police, and, of course, her handsome new neighbour . . .

Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House book available from: US Amazon, UK Amazon, Apple Books and UK Bookshop.org.

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Deadly Dance

Published: 2004 | Book Series Number: 15 | TV Series Number: Series 03, Episodes 03-04.

Plot: There may be trouble ahead … so will Agatha face the music?

Can the feisty Agatha cut it as a private investigator?

She soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie.

But then walks in wealthy divorcee Catherine Laggat-Brown, and Agatha is given her first real case.

Death threats, blackmail and physical attack soon follow, and once again Agatha is off scouring the countryside for clues and showing friends and enemies alike what Raisin Investigations can do!

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Love from Hell

Published: 2001 | Book Series Number: 11 | TV Series Number: Series 03, Episodes 05-06.

Plot: Love, like hell, is a four-letter word for Agatha . . .

No happily ever after for her! Recently married to neighbour James Lacey, Agatha quickly finds that love is not all it’s cracked up to be…

Soon the newly-weds are living in separate cottages and accusing each other of infidelity.

Then, after a fight down the local pub, James vanishes – a bloodstain the only clue to his fate.

Naturally, Agatha is Suspect Number One.

Determined to clear her name – and find her husband – Agatha begins her investigation and promptly discovers a murdered mistress…

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As the Pig Turns

Published: 2011 | Book Series Number: 22 | TV Series Number: Series 03, Episodes 07-08.

Plot: Winter Parva, a traditional Cotswolds village next door to Carsely, has decided to throw a celebratory hog roast to mark the beginning of the winter holiday festivities.

And Agatha Raisin has arrived with friend and rival in the sleuthing business, Toni, to enjoy the merriment.

But, as the spit pig is carried towards the bed of fiery charcoal, Agatha – and the rest of the village – realise that things aren’t as they seem…

As the Pig Turns: An Agatha Raisin Mystery book available from: US Amazon, UK Amazon, Apple Books – The Agatha Raisin Series, Books 1 to 25 and UK Bookshop.org.

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