Rating: 
Summary: Now she's having fun with us!
Review: This time there's a lot going on with Agatha Raisin. We learn more about Agatha's background and childhood, her marriage, and her motivation. We also learn more about James. This makes us more sympathetic to Agatha, but do we like James more, or even as much as we did? The mystery's solution was not obvious to me, so it was quite fun. The language and situations are getting raunchier -- more fun there, too! Definitely some surprising moments. Like a British cozy dipped in gin and sprinkled with a dose of "EastEnders." This series just gets better.
Rating: 
Summary: Got me hooked on M.C. Beaton
Review: This was my first Agatha Raisin book, and I loved it. I work at a library, and now I've read nearly all of them. You'll love the village and the recurring characters.
Rating:
Summary: Another great pick from the grapevine
Review: With each new book, Agatha becomes a more delightful
character (at least to me).
An errant husband reappears and
interrupts Agatha's marriage vows almost in midsentence of
"I do."
When he is murdered, Agatha becomes the main
suspect as well as a scorned fiancee. But while James may
not be of a marriage mind with Agatha, he is still of the
investigative mind. And so off they go to solve the murder.
The usual secondary characters are back and Bill, the local
police officer, even has a love interest.
With little former
background on James Lacy, we do discover here that he is
very well versed in the art of lock picking, even having his
own set of tools.
And a clearer idea of Agatha's age is given
on page 101.
That alone is worth the price of the book.
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