Rating: 
Summary: Terrible is right!
Review: After reading this book I would swear off Beaton forever if it weren't for the fact so many people seem to enjoy them. This was my first shot at an Agatha Raisin book, and it was terrible. The cast of characters was unbelievable. Agatha follows her ex-fiancee to Cyprus. She follows him around moon-eyed and sulky because he doesn't receive her with open arms. She spends the whole book acting like an attention-starved puppy. James treats her badly, insults her, belittles her and she still goes back for more stomping around and getting angry when he doesn't fall at her feet. As for the actual mystery, it was a little more plausible, but still took way too long to solve. The book could have been much shorter and still gotten the point across. I hope her other Agatha Raisin books are better than this one.
Rating:
Summary: Terrible is right!
Review: After reading this book I would swear off Beaton forever if it weren't for the fact so many people seem to enjoy them. This was my first shot at an Agatha Raisin book, and it was terrible. The cast of characters was unbelievable. Agatha follows her ex-fiancee to Cyprus. She follows him around moon-eyed and sulky because he doesn't receive her with open arms. She spends the whole book acting like an attention-starved puppy. James treats her badly, insults her, belittles her and she still goes back for more stomping around and getting angry when he doesn't fall at her feet. As for the actual mystery, it was a little more plausible, but still took way too long to solve. The book could have been much shorter and still gotten the point across. I hope her other Agatha Raisin books are better than this one.
Rating: 
Summary: --Murder in Cypress--
Review: Agatha Raisin who had retired to the quiet life in the Cotswold village of Carsley, is finding life to be very boring without the companionship of James Lacey. She's depressed because James, the love of her life has broken off their engagement. Of course, he had a good reason to do so, because Agatha had not told him the complete truth about her husband, Jimmy. She had led him to believe that Jimmy was dead, and both Agatha and James were shocked to have Jimmy appear at the start of their wedding. James is now in Cypress where he and Agatha were to be together on their honeymoon. Since Agatha is wildly aggressive and impulsive, she decides to follow James and try to rekindle their romance.Agatha has some trouble in locating James, and to fill her time, she takes a cruise. On the ship she meets up with a rather odd assortment of English tourists. She also runs into Sir Charles Firth who seduces her and causes more conflict between Agatha and James. When one of the English tourists is killed, Agatha jumps in to investigate, and after a second murder takes place; it appears that the murderer is also after our Aggie, as Sir Charles likes to call her. AGATHA RAISIN AND THE TERRIBLE TOURIST is a little different from the other stories in this series because it takes place in an exotic part of the world. I really enjoyed hearing about the history of Cypress. This is the sixth book in the Agatha Raisin stories.
Rating:
Summary: Best of series to date. Heartwrenching.
Review: Agatha takes devoted fans through the ringer with her romantic escapades and her perilous adventures. Readers should expect to be starved for more of agatha especially in the James Lacey department upon completion of this book. Despite the severely painful adventures agatha faces in this book, her self esteem seems to be improved.
Rating:
Summary: Give it a miss
Review: Although I've read all the Agatha Raisin books, I'm not a fan. This one is easily the worst of the series. If you want to try M. C. Beaton, read the infinitely superior Hamish Macbeth books.
Rating: 
Summary: Cute British cozy
Review: An unhappy Agatha Raisin is bewildered by the reaction of her former
fiancee, James Lacey, when the pair learns that her spouse was still alive.
Though the man is now dead, James leaves for their honeymoon spot in North
Cyprus without Agatha, who follows him to the island. On the Mediterranean
Island, she meets two groups of three tourists from England. One group is
elitist consisting of Olivia and George Debenham, and their friend Harry
Tembleton. The other group is a bit more crass, consisting of Rose and
Trevor Wilcox, and their friend Angus King. Neither of the two groups
associate with the other. Agatha meets James and they do not get on well as
she desires as he acts very cold towards her. The two groups of three
tourists have now merged into a surprising assembly of six.
When Rose is murdered, Agatha begins her own investigation over the objection of the local police. Agatha starts hanging out with an English friend, Sir Charles Fraith, which makes James even more irate towards
her. A second murder occurs as James sneaks into Turkey to settle a personal
matter. As the police struggle to uncover the killer's identity, Agatha
continues her own investigation even though the killer has targeted her on
several occasions. If she is not careful, she may lose more than just James.
She may lose her life.
This English cozy adds a fresh story line to the series by moving the
murders from England to Cyprus. As in previous books M.C. Beaton successfully
interweaves Agatha's personal problems with her beloved and her compulsive
need to solve a who-done-it. AGATHA RAISIN AND THE TERRIBLE TOURIST is a
very good entry in a well-done series.
Harriet Klausner
Rating:
Summary: Thoroughly Enjoyable, Agatha at her best
Review: Another great entry in the Agatha Raisin series. The interplay between the characters is, as usual, very amusing and entertaining. The plot just swims right along.You can read the book in a day, but I can't think of a better way that to spend a lazy Sunday.
Rating:
Summary: Boring and full of inaccuracies!
Review: Boring, predictable, and full of inaccuracies! I would definitely not recommend it.
Rating: 
Summary: predictable
Review: Here she is again, the formidable and brash Agatha Raisin in an adventure that is remarkable as it is the first that takes her from her quaint Cotswold village to exotic northern Cyprus. This change of locale, however, is the only breath of truly fresh air in this current installment in the Agatha series. Having discovered both of M C Beaton's detective characters, it remains a suspicion of mine that the Hamish Macbeth character is more developed than dear Agatha. Though I am predisposed to enjoy Agatha's exploits, she remains unfortunately flat, two-dimensional.The current novel is stock, the usual two or three bodies littering the narrative landscape and tidied up in the last 10 or 20 pages.But I wonder if other fans like myself are aware of what may be the real unsolved mystery of the Agatha Raisin series: why on earth does Agatha (who, in agonizingly brief flashes of insight and personal honesty, knows Lacey is no good for her and that life with him would be hellish) persist in a predilection for James Lacey?Though the Agatha series will undoubtedly remain disappointing in certain aspects, I will always anticipate the next novel of her exploits.
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Summary: Amusing, light murder mystery and travelog--worth the money.
Review: I am a male. Nevertheless, I was not annoyed by the relentlessly feminine perspective of the author, who (I presume) resembles her heroine, an English woman pushing fifty. Mrs. Raisin is much less wrinkled and dried up than her name suggests. Unlike a male, she checks out her feelings every minute, and the story is full of "happily, impatiently, defensively, triumphantly," etc. which is (to a male) a bit exasperating at times. In compensation, there are acute observations and amusing characters. There is an extensive travelog component describing touristic experiences in northern Cyprus; I liked this but many would not. Like P. D. James, the author obviously hates men. Bilal, a minor character, is OK, but I suspect that he actually exists and the author concealed her true feelings! (Note the dedication.) Most of the male characters are jerks. The author is probably unmarried.
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