The Quiche of Death: The First Agatha Raisin Mystery (Agatha Raisin Mysteries Book 1)

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?"