A severed leg in a roadside hedge? Agatha Raisin is sure she's in for a gruesome discovery, in this 30th outing for our cranky yet beloved heroine. But looks can be deceiving, as Agatha finds when she's hired to investigate a case of industrial sabotage in a factory where nothing is quite what it seems. And sure enough, murder soon rears its ugly head, while a bad-tempered donkey turns Agatha into a national celebrity—and then a laughingstock. If that weren't enough, she finds herself grappling with deepening feelings for friend and occasional lover Sir Charles Fraith. Will Agatha get her man at last, or will a killer get her first?