A widow hires Amanda because she fears that someone is trying to kill her and then dies during a family dinner.

Full of Christmas wonder, eggnog, and endearing characters, Wendy Darlymple’s Kissing Christmas Goodbye is a charming tale of getting a second chance at love. Christmas is Lizzy’s favorite time of year; even when divorcing her husband forced her and her daughter to move back in with Lizzy’s parents. Max hates Christmas and all the pomp and candy canes that goes with it. What’s worse is the house he’s renovating is smack dab in the middle of the uber festive Candy Cane Lane. Just when Lizzy thinks she can convince her grinchy neighbor Max to participate in the neighborhood-wide decorating, her world is threatened when Lizzy’s ex demands their daughter spend Christmas with him and the other woman.

Agatha Raisin is bored. Her detective agency in the Cotswolds is thriving, but she'll scream if she has to deal with another missing cat or dog. Only two things seem to offer potential excitement: Christmas, and her ex, James Lacey. This year Agatha's sure that if she invites James to a splendid Christmas dinner, their love will rekindle like a warm Yule log...but that fantasy will have to wait for now. A wealthy widow-who sent Agatha a letter before her death saying one of her family intended to kill her-has been found dead. Now Agatha must set out to find the murderer, even though, in her heart, she's still dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones she and James used to know....

Jordan's work, at this point and for many years now, is perfect. She says exactly what she means to say, and says it so powerfully that the reader hears each phrase. She manages to tap into that place where race and sexuality, class and justice, gender and memory come together. She doesn't go with the cutting-edge idea but reaches for that difficult terrain where others may fear to tread. --American Book Review. She is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet. --Alice Walker. Jordan is one of the most musically and lyrically gifted poets of the late twentieth century. --Adrienne Rich.

When a wealthy land developer who had been planning to turn a community garden into a housing estate winds up dead, Agatha Raisin is hired by the victim's accused son to clear him of suspicion and identify the real killer among numerous suspects.

Joshua Harris's first book, written when he was only 21, turned the Christian singles scene upside down...and people are still talking. More than 800,000 copies later, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, with its inspiring call to sincere love, real purity, and purposeful singleness, remains the benchmark for books on Christian dating. Now, for the first time since its release, the national #1 bestseller has been expanded with new content and updated for new readers. Honest and practical, it challenges cultural assumptions about relationships and provides solid, biblical alternatives to society's norm.Clear, stylish typeset, with user-friendly links to referenced Scripture.

After a festive church event becomes the scene of two murders, Agatha is charged with getting to the bottom of the crime.