Duplicate copy of an Agatha Raisin book bought in Cancer Research.

RELEASE NOTES:

Taking to the meetup

Picked up at Colchester on Friday.

'Now a popular radio 4 series starring Penelope Keith' - surely must be good!

Well, this was a disappointment. I got very annoyed with Aggie. If it hadn't been for Sir Charles telling her what to do and sorting things out she would have spent all her time worriting about her cats and her 'lost love'! Feisty? I think not. (And the cats didn't seem real to me either.)

But it wasn't the worst book I've read by a long chalk - and probably works quite well on radio.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

On the shelf by the door.

Whilst on a short break in Essex, England, I picked up this book from The Purple Dog Pub in Colchester, and I have brought it back to The Netherlands with me, and put it in my TO-BE-READ pile. I intend to read it, and eventually release it again for someone else to enjoy.

I enjoyed reading this book. It was a quick and easy read. I will now be looking out for other books in the Agatha Raisin series. Now I'm lending this book to a friend who is not a member of bookcrossing.

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
When a fortune-teller tells Agatha Raisin that her destiny lies in Norfolk, the puckish 50-ish heroine of nine previous adventures in this witty series doesn't think twice about renting a cottage sight unseen in a county she's never visited. Of course, Agatha has been spurned by the love of her life, her Cotswolds neighbor James Lacey, which has a lot to do with her removing herself and her two cats, Hodge and Boswell, to the village of Fryfam. There she meets the members of the Fryfam's Women's Group, to whom she explains her presence by saying she's writing a crime novel, Death at the Manor--an unfortunate fib as the village squire, Tolly Trumpington-James, is soon murdered at his manor house. Aided by suave friend Sir Charles Fraith, Agatha sets about prying into the lives of the locals to discover who wanted the squire dead. Peculiar lights at the bottom of her garden (the work of fairies?), the theft of a heavily insured George Stubbs painting, the brief disappearance of her two cats and a second murder, that of Tolly's gamekeeper, may disturb but not shake Agatha from her quest. In the end Charles uses his charm to elicit an important clue from the ravishing barmaid at the pub popular with the Fryfam menfolk. That the social comedy largely overshadows the mystery and its solution won't bother Beaton fans, who will be far more concerned whether Agatha falls for Charles herself or wins back the feckless James in this highly amusing cozy.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Kirkus Reviews
Bereft, as she thinks, of James Lacey, the love of her life, drolly blunt Agatha Raisin (Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden, 1999, etc.) begins her tenth acid cozy by following a fortuneteller's advice: she ups and moves to Lavender Cottage in the Norfolk village of Fryfam, where her missing vase is only the latest of a series of mysteriously vanished objects. But not everything in Fryfam disappears. There's quite a show of dancing lights at the bottom of Agatha's back garden; one of her new neighbors turns up dead; and indomitable James will return as well. -- Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

This book is on its way to hakkalina in Budapest, Hungary.
Enjoy!

I got it, wow!! Pardon, I got them!! 3 books about Agatha in one parcel, I am spoiled, thank you Chamonix44 for sending these wonderful collection into my way. I fall in love with Agatha, so these books will give me joyful time... :))

Loved it so much, thank you for sharing with me.
5 days reading. I liked this Aggie story too.