Hot to trot
(Playaway)

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Read by Penelope Keith.

"No one who encountered Agatha Raisin striding purposefully along Mircester High Street on this gloriously sunny spring morning--her brown hair sleek and lustrous in its neat bob, courtesy of a pre-breakfast appointment with her hairdresser--could possibly have known. No one could even have suspected that the woman in the elegantly cut navy blue jacket and skirt, carrying a duskypink shoulder bag that very nearly matched the color of her lipstick, who was smiling and nodding pleasantly to passersby, was hiding a dark torment. When private detective Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is to be married to a horrid socialite, she sees it as her duty to find out what she can about the woman. Coming up empty, Agatha--out of selfless concern for Charles, of course--does the only sensible thing she can think of: she crashes their wedding, resulting in a public altercation. Just when she thinks things can't get any worse, she hears a scream from a stable on the property and rushes over, only to discover that there's been a murder--and that she and Charles are suspects. In a race against the clock to clear their names, Agatha dives headfirst into the glittering lifestyle of the fabulously wealthy--and the world of international show-jumping. The riders are glamorous, the horses are beautiful, and the intrigue runs deep, leavingAgatha with her own list of suspects as long as a stallion's tail. When sinister evidence emerges that appears to seal Sir Charles's fate, Agatha must uncover the truth before a net of skullduggery closes around him and he loses his ancestral home, his entire estate, and his freedom. And if things weren't complicated enough, Agatha's ex-husband, James Lacey, is back in Carsely and back in Agatha's heart."--,Provided by publisher.