But Charles was at school, in London so when he finished and both tired of the long commute to the north of Scotland, they moved to the Cotswolds where Agatha Raisin was created.

Beaton (1936-2019) was the author of both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, as well as numerous Regency romances. Agatha and her assistant, Toni, are driving to their friend Bill Wong’s wedding, thinking of nothing more than what the beautiful bride will be wearing when a terrified young man comes running down the country lane towards them wearing.After Agatha sees Ursula again, she is suspicious even more as Ursula doesn't seem that she is in the least bit upset that her husband is dead. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes.

Then she finds herself in deadly danger when she begins to close in on a suspected murderer and the sinister nature of the ice cream business leads her to a chilling conclusion. First, I am a big fan of the Agatha Raisin TV series so I was predisposed to like these characters and their quirks.

The next time she sees Bert at the village of Carsely's pub, the Red Lion, where he is with his friends, and has already told them that he saw Agatha without clothes. The storyline was far fetched, and the murder was solved long before the end by the discussions of Agatha and her friends instead of the wonderful way Marion would lead us all on with our own theories until Agatha once again got caught and then the solution would tumble out.

Raisin Investigations is busy with a few undercover activities: one at a brewery complaining about a rash of thefts, another at a sixth form college that may have a drug problem, and the last, a bit embarrassing is at a naturist society. I know thousands will have bought this book because of the familiarity that Marion created with her characters, but R W Green has taken them on a different course, and this one I do not like, not at all.In my opnion Green does a good job capturing Beaton's voice as well as the essence of the characters. Although the author has passed on, her friend and fellow author R W Green does a good job of sticking to the format and characters. John agrees, and Agatha is almost positive that the body in the lake is Antonio's body and puts Ursula on the list of her suspects who murdered the disappearing body.