Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death - M C Beaton > Reviews

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 ... Read review

Advantages: enjoyable
Disadvantages: none

...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 ... Read review