There Goes the Bride (Agatha Raisin Series #20)

Agatha Rocks!

Agatha Rocks again in this, her 20th episode. She is up and down so often that the ending is quite a ride. She either surprises or gets surprised at each turn. You will love this book and if you have never read her series, start anywhere and you will love her.

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Agatha's adventures never tire you out!

Again, Ms. Beaton has taken the life of Agatha Raisin and placed her in situations with numerous colorful individuals, changing scenarios, travels and that constant quest for her own love, while she solves some rather twisted routes to identifying the guilty.

Another great adventure for Agatha

Agatha Raisin. Need I say more?

M.C. Beaton scores again!

Agatha is a complicated character, but I can certainly sympathize with her in many ways. The men in her life are wimps and more bother than they are worth. Her life seems a bit cluttered and I do find myself wishing she would "get a grip"; a little less OCD perhaps. I am adicted to the British cozy and her stories detail much what I have come to enjoy about village life.

Entertaining as always!

I love M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin books. Easy reads, fun and entertaining. I have often thought it would be nice if they would make a weekly series out of the Agatha Raisin books. A British Version of "Murder, She Wrote" and wouldn't the scenery be grand?

Disappointing

I have thoroughly enjoyed all the Agatha Raisin books - until this one. Finishing A Spoonful of Poison spurred me to download the Barnes and Noble e-reader onto my iphone so I could read There Goes the Bride. The good news - I learned a new technological trick. The bad news - I wasted time, money, and storage on my iphone with There Goes the Bride. The last third of the book was repetitious and seemed Marion was just trying to fill up pages so she could get the book to the publisher ASAP. I was quite happy to finish the latest Agatha book and am quite content to wait as long as it takes to read the next one.

Forever Agatha

Always a good read is an Agatha Raisin mystery. You either love her or can't stand her. I am glad, always, to see another episode in her life reach print, good relaxing escapism.

Agatha Raisin does it again!

As an "older" person, I love Agatha. M.C. Beaton is always a fun read. Nothing heavy, just enjoyable!

The Old Agatha Is Back!

Let me start off by saying I love M. C. Beaton and her cleverly written Agatha Raisin series; however, I feel that her last few books fell short of the previous ones. I had a bit of trouble getting into this one, because there were so many characters and plots, but it did pick up after a while. The last two chapters are priceless and I am happy to say that the old Agatha, the fiesty "throw caution to the wind" character, is back. Beaton left me wanting to read more. Too bad it's usually a year in between each new publication.

The twentieth Raisin cozy retains the amusing freshness and out of control fun of the previous entries

In a small village in the Cotswold of England, Agatha Raisin is getting more and more cases for her new detective agency. Overworked and needing a rest from her caseload Agatha takes a vacation visiting several of Europe's most famous battlefields. She goes to Istanbul to see the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimea War. However, Agatha is horrified to see her former husband James Lacey and his much younger fiancée Felicity Bross-Tilkingtonare also there.town. James assumes the obsessive compulsive Agatha Raisin is stalking him as he also sees her a continent from home in the Gallipolis.

Back in England, Agatha ignores his accusations and tries to ignore him too although the entire village is coming out for his second marriage. Agatha buries herself in her work while James waits for his bride to walk down the aisle; only to find her corpse with a bullet hole in it. The police suspect Agatha in a crime of passion, but she has witnesses that place her elsewhere. Felicity's stunned distraught mother hires Agatha to find out who killed her daughter as she distrusts the cops to do an adequate job once they fixate on a suspect; in this case Agatha in spite of her alibi. However, her investigation proves dangerous as someone wants to inter Agatha resting in peace next to Felicity.

The twentieth Raisin cozy retains the amusing freshness and out of control fun of the previous entries as once again crotchety Agatha is her usual acerbic self with her ex, his fiancée, the cops, and returning sleuth Toni Gilmour. She is even acrimonious with her new love interest, Sylvan Dubois, a friend of Felicity's father; as she suspects both of them in some dubious activities. The whodunit is a wonderful puzzler, but as always in this fabulous series, fifty something abrasive, acerbic Agatha owns the story line a she verbally dishes out A SPOONFUL OF POISON to anyone who ventures nearby.

Harriet Klausner

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