{"id":1393,"date":"2020-03-19T08:15:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T08:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2020-03-19T08:15:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T08:15:42","slug":"agatha-raisin-and-the-perfect-paragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>She&#8217;s practically perfect in every way!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>No, not Agatha Raisin. Mabel Smedley. She is the &#8220;Perfect Paragon&#8221; of the title.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Smedley hires Agatha to check on his wife. He suspects she is having an affair, but the woman appears sickening virtuous.<\/p>\n<p>While Agatha has that case on the go, she also has the case of a disappearing school girl to investigate. So she hires new people to her team to assist her and finds they offer great insight into solving mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>As the book progresses, her caseload changes to murder. The schoolgirl&#8217;s body is discovered. Then Mr Smedley is poisoned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now she has two murders to investigate instead.\u00a0And her murder caseload is going to keep expanding&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2ROBtjE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon<\/a> is another fun\u00a0 read from M C Beaton.<\/h4>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B002RCZAKY\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B002RCZAKY&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21&amp;linkId=ef805a868aaca9e60909a838803f1c04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1394\" style=\"color:var(--color-text);font-size:16px;font-weight:400;\" src=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img_2745.jpg\" alt=\"Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon - photo by Juliamaud\" width=\"2736\" height=\"3648\" \/><\/a>The Plot<\/h2>\n<p><em>After being nearly killed by both a hired hit man and her former secretary, Agatha Raisin could use some low-key cases. So when Robert Smedley walks through the door of her detective agency, determined to prove that his wife is cheating on him, Raisin Investigations immediately offers to help.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unfortunately for Agatha, Mabel Smedley appears to be the perfect wife: young, pretty, and a regular volunteer at church. But just as Agatha is ready to give up, Smedley is poisoned with weed killer, leaving Mabel, the prime suspect, to inherit a fortune.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With no one left to pay her, Agatha has to drop the investigation . . . that is, until her old friend Sir Charles Fraith turns up again to rekindle her curiosity in the case.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2ROBtjE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Available from Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B002RCZAKY\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B002RCZAKY&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21&amp;linkId=ef805a868aaca9e60909a838803f1c04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;ASIN=B002RCZAKY&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>All Agatha Raisin&#8217;s adventures are available from <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/lists\/m-c-beaton-the-agatha-raisin-series\">https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/lists\/m-c-beaton-the-agatha-raisin-series<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h4>Like reading Solve the Murder? 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While Agatha has that case on the go, she also has the case&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1393\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,225],"tags":[206,319,211],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-murder-mystery-books","category-mystery-books","tag-agatha-raisin","tag-agatha-raisin-and-the-perfect-paragon","tag-m-c-beaton"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon - Solve The Murder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1393\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon - Solve The Murder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"She&#8217;s practically perfect in every way! 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