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Summary: Super Charming British cozy
Review: Agatha is at her most endearing and infurating best. I snap up all the Agatha series books as soon as they come off press because I know I'm in for a wonderful read. Anyone who like to take their murders with a dose of good humor will love Ms. Beaton's Agatha series. (Although this title is listed as part of the Hamish Macbeth series, the Agatha Raisin character has never even met Constable Macbeth. Suggestion to the esteemed author: Send Agatha to Hamish's beloved Lochdubh on vacation, knock off some offensive character and have Hamish and Agatha work together to solve the mystery. Your readers will be in for the ride of their lives!!)
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Summary: AGATHA IS GREAT!!!!
Review: AS usual I enjoyed another Agatha Raisin doing her thing. Her thing this time also gets her really involved with James Lacey. Agatha has returned to Cotswold village after six months in London. She is not back long before someone murders one of the walkers of dembley, a group that gets together and walks on the weekend. They follow old trails that have since been planted in crops. The farmers, of course, do not like this as it destroys their fields. After one is killed, another is killed. Who could be doing this? One of the walkers, one of the farmers, a lover? Agatha and Lacey keep asking questions until they figure it our. Or do they? I can see the village and the people in my mind as I read. Beaton does an excellent job if you will just let yourself go and feel the writing.
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Summary: Just barely 4 stars...
Review: I enjoyed this fourth book in the Agatha Raisin series but while reading it, I had a vague feeling of disquiet. It took me a while to figure out what was bothering me and I finally realized that Agatha, in this book, had resorted to namecalling in her insults and some of those names are quite vicious. She has in all the books been quite tart with others but in this one, she is downright vicious.
The leader of a rambling group (a group of people who get together to walk & enjoy the country) from a nearby village is murdered. A friend's niece is one of the suspects and she asks Agatha to investigate. Agatha, naturally, agrees to do so and she & James go undercover as a married couple in the nearby village.
The suspects are plenty and none of them are likeable. Not even any of the secondary characters are that nice.
I would hesitate to pick up the next book in the series if it were not for the cliffhanger ending of this one.
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Summary: This sleuth is a cranky, middle-aged British lady.
Review: I was pleasantly surprised to find that Agatha Raisin, the sleuth in this story, is an enjoyably cranky middle-aged British lady. She has retired from the high pressure of London business (public relations) to settle in the quiet Cotswolds, only to get caught up in a murder and mystery. Being a rather cranky, middle-aged female myself, I found Agatha charming in her cantankerousness. The writing is amusing without being cloying, and I actually chuckled aloud several times. This was my first foray into murder with Agatha Raisin, and I'll definitely seek out another adventure with her.
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Summary: hope that James is next...
Review: I'm unusual in that I like the aggressive Agatha more than the lazy, unambitious Hamish MacBeth. This one is as good as the others in the series -- although the first one, Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death, is the best.I suspect I liked the first book best because James Lacey played so little a part of it. The biggest mystery in this book, as in all of the them, is what lively, clever Agatha sees in the priggish James Lacey. He's a snob and a pill. There are women who think they're nothing without a man -- even one as boring as Lacey -- but Agatha certainly doesn't strike me as one. I blame Ms. Beaton for Lacey, and I hope he can be bumped off next in order to put us all out of our misery.
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Summary: You'll warm up to Agatha
Review: Imagine a middle aged woman living in the Cotswolds who can neither cook, garden, nor has the slightest clue as to why she frequently offends people. But Agatha has Sherlockian instincts for crime, and a bulldog approach to problems of both murder and romance. Hilarious.
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Summary: You'll warm up to Agatha
Review: Imagine a middle aged woman living in the Cotswolds who can neither cook, garden, nor has the slightest clue as to why she frequently offends people. But Agatha has Sherlockian instincts for crime, and a bulldog approach to problems of both murder and romance. Hilarious.
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Summary: Another hilarious adventure of Agatha and James
Review: In "Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener", a unexpected person who had a really trivial rold in the story line was found to be a murderer, while in this book, you might guess who the murderer is. Like the previous works, besides the murder and whodunit plot, the unusual romance of Agatha chasing James gives much laughters. Finally Agatha had a chance to live with James under the same roof!!! There is no one who can't imagine how Agatha acted to hook James. It's Fun, but a little bit boring compared to the previous ones, but I expect to read what this energetic Agatha unfolds hilarious adventires in following series.
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Summary: The Murderer Can't Walk Past Agatha!
Review: In the fourth book in the Agatha Raisin series, our heroine is again put right in the middle of a vicious murder. Following her return from working for a London P.R. firm, Agatha must help friend Sir Charles Fraith clear his name. It seems as though the leader of a walkers group has been murdered after being seen arguing with Charles, and Agatha sets out with James to pose as a married couple to infiltrate the village of Dembley. Of course, Agatha finds herself miserable, and finds that living with James is not the romantic getaway that she had hoped for. This series is one of my favorites and this book shows Agatha at her finest. Her gruff exterior is no match for her soft heart, and those that truly get to know her see this warm side. I highly recommend each book in this series, and also the series about Hamish MacBeth, also written by M.C. Beaton. The first book in the series is "Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death". Enjoy!
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Summary: The Murderer Can't Walk Past Agatha!
Review: In the fourth book in the Agatha Raisin series, our heroine is again put right in the middle of a vicious murder. Following her return from working for a London P.R. firm, Agatha must help friend Sir Charles Fraith clear his name. It seems as though the leader of a walkers group has been murdered after being seen arguing with Charles, and Agatha sets out with James to pose as a married couple to infiltrate the village of Dembley. Of course, Agatha finds herself miserable, and finds that living with James is not the romantic getaway that she had hoped for. This series is one of my favorites and this book shows Agatha at her finest. Her gruff exterior is no match for her soft heart, and those that truly get to know her see this warm side. I highly recommend each book in this series, and also the series about Hamish MacBeth, also written by M.C. Beaton. The first book in the series is "Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death". Enjoy!
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