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Something borrowed, someone dead : an Agatha Raisin mystery
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- ISBN: 9781250047564 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 0312640137 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9780312640132 (hc.) :
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Physical Description:
291 pages ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: First Minotaur Books edition.
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2013.
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| Subject: | Raisin, Agatha (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Women private investigators -- England -- Cotswold Hills -- Fiction Police -- Crimes against -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Creston Public Library | MYS BEA (Text) | 35140001031205 | Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2013 October #2
Some people love an English cream tea, in which clotted cream is lavished on crumpets in an artery-threatening way, and some people find cream teas incredibly cloying. Whatever side you're on, you'll recognize the same phenomenonâsome say scrumptious, some say cloyingâreading this cozy starring Agatha Raisin, a private eye in the Cotswolds. Beaton just about clobbers her readers over the head with multiple references to "the Cotswolds," "the neighboring hamlet," "the vicar's wife." There's even a lady of the manor, who, we are told, is very much like Maggie Smith as the Dowager Duchess in Downton Abbey. The plot is fairly predictable: a newcomer to a tiny village with a bad habit of "borrowing" others' belongings is found poisoned after drinking some pilfered wine. Agatha moves from pub to vicar's house to manor house, questioning everyone in sight. Although this is set in today's world, it seems very much like the world of the early twentieth century. Beaton's Agatha Raisin series is extremely popular and, often, good fun. This one seems like a too-calculated cozyâexcept for the clotted-cream crowd. Copyright 2013 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2013 September #1
Agatha Raisin solves the case of the obliging villager whose kindnesses didn't keep someone from killing her, perhaps for an excellent reason. When Gloria French first moved to the quiet Cotswold village of Piddlebury, the locals were delighted by her willingness to pitch in by raising money for the church, reading to oldsters and doing many other little jobs nobody wanted to do. So when Gloria's found dead, poisoned by homemade elderberry wine, a member of the Piddlebury parish council hires Agatha to find the killer. Questions quickly arise. Why did a wealthy woman like Gloria borrow things, insignificant or expensive, from her neighbors and refuse to return them? And did this odd habit provide motive enough for murder? Agatha and one of her assistants, taking up residence in the local pub, soon find that many in the village had cause to hate Gloria. They're especially interested in the vicar's wife, who, tired of Gloria's constant flirting, went to her house on the day of the murder to retrieve a borrowed item. The villagers, claiming that the killer must have been a passing outsider, stick to this story even when one of their own swipes a bottle of wine from Agatha's car and is found dead. As usual, man-hungry Agatha is attracted to a handsome stranger staying at the pub. She's livid when her beautiful, clever assistant, Toni, who's often attracted to unsuitable older men, takes off for Spain with Agatha's ex-husband. Although the villagers do their best to freeze her out, Agatha isn't about to let anything stop her from finding a callous killer who's added her to his list of potential victims. Fans of this long-running series (Hiss and Hers, 2012, etc.) will feel right at home and find plenty of mirth and mystery. Copyright Kirkus 2013 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2013 July #4
The murder of Gloria French, a widow with an appetite for seduction and a penchant for borrowing but not returning things, sets off a calamitous chain of events in bestseller Beaton's lively 24th Agatha Raisin mystery (after 2012's Hiss and Hers). Keen for a speedy resolution to the case, Jerry Tarrant, head of the parish council in the Cotswolds village of Piddlebury, hires PI Agatha to investigate. In the course of interviewing villagers who might have done in Gloria by giving her a bottle of poisoned elderberry wine, plucky and persistent Agatha annoys someone enough to prompt an attempt on her life. Comic mishaps include an impromptu TV performance in which she tries to cook an omelet. A Miss Marple who enjoys drink, cigarettes, and men, Agatha displays a wit and sharp tongue that will continue to please her many fans. Agent: Barbara Lowenstein, Lowenstein Associates. (Sept.)
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