โ Scribed by Beaton, M C
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
At the core of every village cozy is a pinch of arsenic. In the Agatha Raisin Cotswold cozies, the arsenic is Agatha herself, a pushy, whiny, unsociable, self-pitying sort who investigates murders in the tiny village of Carsely the way other women might shop, as a distraction from boredom. Despite Agatha, this series, now in its thirteenth outing, is very popular. In the latest, the village is shaken by the appearance of a gorgeous new assistant cleric. Before long, the cleric is hated by the vicar for pulling in record crowds at services and lusted after by every woman in the village. After the cleric is found stabbed to death at the vicarage, Agatha takes it upon herself to discover who did in the body in the library. The cleric fascinates even after death; Beaton revives a fairly routine plot with a whiff of Dorian Gray here. For die-hard cozy fans only. Connie Fletcher
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"The Miss Marple-like Raisin is refreshingly sensible and wonderfully eccentric."-Buffalo News
"Beaton's Agatha Raisin series...just about defines the British cozy."-Booklist
"Beaton has a winner in the irrepressible, romance-hungry Agatha."-Chicago Sun-Times
"[Agatha] is a glorious cross between Miss Marple, Auntie Mame, and Lucille Ball, with a tad of pit bull tossed in. She's wonderful."-St. Petersburg Times
"The Raisin series brings the cozy tradition back to life. God bless the Queen!"-Tulsa World
"[Beaton's] imperfect heroine is an absolute gem!"-Publishers Weekly
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