Name: The Potted Gardener
Rating: 3.923076923076923 (13 reviews)
ISBN: 9780312539146

M. C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin takes up gardening in an attempt to impress her neighbor, James Lacey, and plans to enter the prestigious Carsley Horticultural Contest, but the competition is soon threatened by sabotage and murder.

The Potted Gardener

To impress her neighbor, James Lacey, Agatha Raisin takes up gardening and plans to enter the prestigious Carsley Horticultural Contest, but the competition is soon threatened by sabotage and murder

Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener

Melissa Palmer

Book #9 Read in 2013
Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener

This is the third book in a cozy mystery series. Agatha Raisin, a pretty cranky older woman, has moved from London to a small town. There, she ends up becoming a sort of amateur detective and solves murders as they happen. In this book, another newbie to the small town, Mary, is murdered. While Agatha had no love lost for the victim, she attempts to solve the case.

There are times when Agatha is a pretty hard character to like. But for the most part, I enjoy how she calls things like she sees them. I enjoy the small town setting and the secondary characters. I will continue with this series.

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As the contest approaches, however, plants are mysteriously being uprooted, poisoned, and burned. When the prime suspect, a beautiful blond newcomer named Mary Fortune, who has her eye on James Lacey, turns up dead, Agatha and James must put aside their differences to solve the puzzle.

Sian Wadey

Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton

I love the Agatha Raisin series and this one is no exception. They're great easy reads with brilliant characters, especially the titular Agatha Raisin. The plots are excellent and I never normally work out who the culprit is.

M.C. Beaton

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 . . . Praise for the Agatha Raisin series: 'Sharp, witty, hugely intelligent, unfailingly entertaining . . . M. C. Beaton has created a national treature.' Anne Robinson, The Times 'The Miss Marple-like Raisin is a refreshingly sensible, wonderfully eccentric, thoroughly likeable heroine.' Booklist

Barbara Williford

Cozy, fun Little mystery with laugh out loud moments. Agatha is up to her scheming again when she enters the Village Garden contest but when the popular horticulturist is murdered and then planted, her and Mr. Lacey are at it again sleuthing.

Sarah Escorsa

One of the best Agatha Raisin book I've read so far:) A fun, quick read and a very entertaining story!

I liked the mystery, I think the characters are still kind of confusing and Agatha seems like she needs to be fleshed out a bit more. Still a good, quick read.

Anna Adams

Really enjoyed! Reading out of order because I'd seen some of the TV series, so I thought I knew everything! :-) Some changes, obviously, but not so much that I didn't love the book!

As a garden show approaches in the English Cotswolds, plants are mysteriously uprooted, poisoned and burned. The suspect is a beautiful divorcee, until she is found dead, head planted in a pot. Agatha Raisin goes to work. By the author of Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet.

The Potted Gardener

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