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Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House

M. C. Beaton. Minotaur Books, $23.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-312-20769-4

In M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House, the Cotswolds village sleuth investigates the murder of the owner of a supernaturally challenged house-and meets a handsome new neighbor. Besides the Hamish Macbeth series, Beaton is the author of Snobbery with Violence (Forecasts, June 2), an Edwardian mystery, writing as Marion Chesney.