Amazon reviewer wrote very favorably of this book

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Another in the Agatha Raisin series, and I seem to have jumped over four or five and landed on this one. By now, Agatha has her own detective agency in Carsely, the little village in the Cotswolds where Agatha originally went to retire. She's divorced from James (so I can only suppose that she finally did get to marry him -- haven't read that yet) and really doesn't want to take on a divorce case, but when she's offered a huge fee (which her struggling agency desperately needs to stay afloat) from pompous priggish businessman Robert Smedley to prove that his wife is being unfaithful, she takes the case. But Mrs. Smedley turns out to be a quiet, mousy woman with a generous heart and a sweet nature that everyone just adores. A perfect paragon of virtue she is, and there is no way that this quiet woman could be having an affair. The strangling death of a pretty teenager momentarily distracts Agatha, and then she learns that Mr. Smedley himself has been poisoned at work, dying after drinking coffee prepared by his loyal secretary. Agatha is then hired by Mrs. Smedley to help track down her husband's murderer. With the help of her eclectic and eccentric staff, Agatha follows leads and half a dozen suspects, hitting one dead end after another. It's not until a third body, one of the suspects in fact, is found stabbed to death in his apartment that she finds the one clue that will allow her to solve this case.

IThis book seemed to smack of "formula" and was predictable from beginning to end. I'll give this one a 3.5. A pleasant read, but nothing to brag about. ( )

Agatha Raisin trails a woman suspected of infidelity and investigates the murder of a teenager. Then the husband who is paying her to follow his wife is poisoned. ( )

This is a more recent entry into the Agatha Raisin series. I like her earlier stories better than her more recent ones. This one has Agatha hired by a controlling husband who thinks his wife is having an affair. The wife appears to be the perfect paragon but then nothing is as it seems. ( )

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