One MMD team member (hi, Brigid!) choose this as one of her best books in the Modern Mrs Darcy Book Club Best Books of the Year event last month. From the publisher: "Bored, lonely, and used to getting her way, Agatha Raisin 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. That is, Agatha has never baked a thing in her life! In fact, she bought her entry ready-made from an upper-crust London quicherie. Grating on the nerves of several Carsely residents, she is soon receiving sinister notes. Has her cheating and meddling landed her in hot water, or are the threats related to the suspicious death?"

Brigid says: Agatha Raisin is back at it in this long running series and by “it,” I mean solving murders in her Cotswolds village of Carsely. Having always dreamt of the perfect Christmas, she is determined to make the season merry and bright. Those plans are quickly put to the side when Agatha gets hired by a local widow who is sure someone is out to get her. Now Agatha must catch the culprit before the holidays are ruined. While there are romantic subplots that are built throughout the series, this festive cozy mystery would be a jolly spot to jump right in! (I suggest picking this one up in print since the audiobook is one of the rare Agatha Raisin titles not performed by my preferred narrator, Penelope Keith.)