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Summary: Great intro to characters and setting of agatha raisin books
Review: Great book. Cant wait for more
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Summary: Great start to a series...
Review: I am a very late-comer to this series, this first book having first been published in 1992. It was recommended to me by a fellow mystery lover. I truly enjoyed this book. I was less fascinated by the mystery of whodunnit than by the personality of Agatha Raisin. I found it quite refreshing that an author has written a main character that is not so very likeable, at least throughout most of the book. It was fun to see her push her way through situations and to be so brutally honest with her opinions; too often, the main character is too nice and sweet. The crime is fairly easy to solve, but that did not matter so much to me as I enjoyed the writer's style and, as stated already, Agatha Raisin. I will definitely be buying the rest of the series.
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Summary: Garden gnomes and all.....
Review: I came to this after reading lots of M. C. Beaton's Hamish MacBeth mysteries. This one has the same local color--in this case mellower on the surface because the Cotswolds don't have quite the same dourly forbidding quality at the Scottish highlands--and the same wonderfully eccentric supporting characters. Agatha Raisin is a complex character, not easy to like, but probably ultimately hard not to love, as she starts to blend in with the people of Carsley. (The Agatha who lies on her kitchen floor throwing balls of tin foil to her kitten would be unrecognizable to the tough-cookie Agatha of London public relations fame!)As with most of the Hamish books, the fun here isn't in who did the murder but in how Agatha figures it out.
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Summary: Ms. Raisin - funny, witty & fresh
Review: I gotta confess that I was turned onto this book series only after I was looking for something of the sort after devouring all through the Goldy Bear series of Diane Mott Davidson. However, this quiche was all it took for me to become absolutely hooked. I've long since found all the rest of the books in the series and read them. I love them! Agatha Raisin is a very well developed character. She's laugh-out-loud funny, sarcastic, and in her very own grouchy way, quite endearing. The book's storyline develops along seamlessly and in a very interesting manner. I'd read that the British cozy movement had a great friend in M.C. Beaton. I definitely agree and recommend this book wholeheartedly to every mystery junkie and just about anyone with the itch to get their hands on a good book...or a good way not to mess up a quiche contest.
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Summary: Surprising delight
Review: I heard the first chapter of Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death as a filler advertisement on another audiobook. It was witty and fresh and unexpectedly delightful; it tickled my mind so that I could scarcely wait to hear the whole thing. The novel held its early promise through to the very last chapter. It is simultaneously a cozy and a parody of cozies. Highly recommended!
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Summary: A wonderful entertaining book!
Review: I love Agatha Raisin, you see yourself and many people you know in her. The book is hard to put down til you finish. I could not wait to get the rest of the Agatha Raisin series. They are all as good. I have shared this book with friends and they are now ordering more of her books. Agatha raisin is our Heroine. This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. I have read them all thru the current date and anxiously looking forward to the next.
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Summary: Funny--a great read!
Review: I love Agatha--buying the quiche at a bakery sounds like something I'd do. . . . I love the characters, especially Agatha and James.
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Summary: A Great Laugh
Review: I still remember my first time reading this book! I have never laughed out loud reading a book before, but this changed it all! The book is well written for a nice light read that you can read in a day or two. I still go back and read it when I have a little down time and I still laugh and just can't put it down. This is the first in the Agatha Raisin series and the others are just as delightful. If you have a day or two and need to escape or need something to read on a relaxing vacation this is it!
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Summary: Best cozy mystery I've read all summer
Review: I was so excited to discover M.C. Beaton's work this summer in her Agatha Raisin book entitled "The Quiche of Death". The book surprised me in its ability to keep me laughing and guessing at the identity of the murderer simultaneously. So many books in the mystery genre today are predictable and Beaton's book was refreshing in that it kept me guessing until the end. I am going to continue reading the rest of the series, as well as Beaton's newest series, to be introduced later this summer.
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Summary: Clever writing and a great character combine for a good read
Review: I've just discovered the novels of M.C. Beaton through the Hammish Macbeth TV series running on BBC America. While the majority seem to prefer the Macbeth series, I don't. Agatha Raisin is a prickly personality that is delightful to read because she says the things we would want to say and don't. This particular book is a great character study and even if set in England, I recognize my own small hometown within its pages. Is it literature? No, thank God! But it is a pleasant weekend read. Oh, and if you've ever read the very funny Regency romances of Marion Chesney, you'll want to know she is also M.C. Beaton.
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