Agatha Raisin is up to her usual tricks in this, the 18th (I think) in this series. Agatha is asked to do the publicity for a local fair where someone adds LSD to the jam, resulting in 2 deaths. The local vicar hires Agatha's detective agency to solve the crime. Naturally she becomes romantically interested in a local widower, an architect with green eyes to die for,whose wife perished in a mysterious fall down the stairs some months before. Naturally Agatha starts hearing conflicting stories about the wife's suspicious death and her interest in the widower waxes and wanes. Poor Agatha! One of the things that I especially like about this series is that Agatha's character has actually developed along the way. She will always be Agatha, but she is becoming just a little softer in each novel.
This mystery brings in all of our favorite characters: Sir Charles, Ray, Mrs. Boxby, Bill Wong, and even James Lacey, Agatha's great love and former husband. If you love cozies, and especially if you love Agatha, you will enjoy M.C. Beaton's latest!
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