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bullying others as a high-flying public relations boss Agatha takes early retirement to a picture-perfect village in the Cotswolds. And how better to make friends than by entering the local quiche-making competition? To ensure first prize Agatha buys her entry at a London delicatessen. Alas Agatha's perfect product is soon exposed - as not only store brought but poisoned. The contest judge succumbs after eating it and with him go Agatha's chances of rural bliss - unless she can discover the poisoner...
It Started With A Quiche Review ofAgatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death - M C Beatonby
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Advantages: Easy reading, little effort required, harmless escapism Disadvantages: Hollow plot and characterisation, too cliched
Agatha Raisin, owner of a successful Mayfair public relations company, has never forgotten the brief, but idyllic holiday she spent in the Cotswolds as a child, a welcome change as far as she was concerned, from the family's annual outing to Butlin's holiday camp. That holiday marked the beginning of a lifelong dream to own a pretty cottage in one of the picturesque and tranquil Cotswold villages, and at the age of fifty-three, she makes the monumental ... ...as romantically-named a village as Agatha would have wished for, perhaps, but the cottage she has bought is perfect, and she's eager to embark upon her new life.
Disconcerted to find that the locals aren't exactly queuing up to extend a warm welcome to yet another "incomer", Agatha sets out to make her mark on village life and, spotting a poster advertising The Great Quiche Contest, she decides to enter. The snag is that Agatha has never made a ...
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...Beaton and it is the Agatha Raisin series.She is the main character of the book and this is the first book which introduces the scene. The author tells us that Agatha Raisin retired from her job and she was in her mid fifties. She had a hankering to return back to the Cotswolds to live after last being there when she was a child and had a holiday there and she always wanted to go back there.So she brought a cottage down there and it was in a place ... ...had a couple flings with Agatha and also she gave him a key to her cottage. Her cleaner Dora Simpson who was always dependable. Miss Simms who was the unmarried mother who likes to go out with married men. Also Mrs Boxley a very kind gentle woman who at times acts as Agatha's conscience and perhaps her only friend. Then there was Bill Wong who is half chines and a Detective Sergeant who becomes very involved in Agatha's very often clumsy dectective ...
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Meet Agatha Raisin, high-flying public relations boss turned village sleuth. After Agatha's many stressful years of bullying and cajoling others her early retirement to a picture-perfect village in the Costwolds is a dream come true. And how better to start making friends than by entering the village quiche-making competition? However, Agatha is not used to being an also-ran, so to ensure first prize, she buys her entry from a London delicatessen. Alas, Agatha's perfect product is soon exposed - as not only store-bought but poisoned! The contest judge, rumoured to be connoisseur of women as well as food, succumbs soon after eating it, and with him go Agatha's chances of rural bliss - unless she can expose the real murderer...
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