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Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (1992)

by M. C. Beaton

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Okay. Okay. I gave Agatha Raisin a couple of chances. I actually wanted to like this; I bought the four book omnibus back whenever it was on sale in the Kindle store, and I love my cosy mysteries terribly much. But I hated the main character, I didn't find all the descriptions quirky and funny as they seemed meant to be, and I actually fell asleep trying to read it, something which I almost never do.

Giving up on it even though I haven't got to the end, because I don't care enough to keep details in mind between reads, and just removing the other ones from my books. ( )
  shanaqui | Apr 9, 2013 |
This is the first in a long line of Agatha Raisin books, and I have to say I'm torn. I loved Agatha- she's a stout, stubborn, unapologetic woman who says whatever is on her mind. However, the book dragged, and my head almost exploded when one of the ways she caught the murderer was going to the library to ask who had checked out the book on poisonous plants recently. And they told her. Yeah, IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY, PEOPLE! Have you heard of privacy? I know, I know, getting a subpoena would have ruined the plot of the story, but I just don't think Agatha and I can be friends now. ( )
  wwrawson | Mar 31, 2013 |
The heroine is not exactly someone you admire, and the mystery plot was not especially clever, but the writing is good and it was fun to follow along on the adventures of the very human Agatha Raisin. There is pleasure in reading about a bumbling sleuth, just as there is a different kind of pleasure in reading about a brilliant one. ( )
  theonetruesteph | Mar 30, 2013 |
Great light but cute read. ( )
  swiddoes01 | Jan 29, 2013 |
A fun quick listen for my workout in the pool. I never liked Agatha in print, but found her delightful in the audio format. ( )
  tututhefirst | Jan 10, 2013 |
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Mrs. Agatha Raisin sat behind her newly cleared desk in her office in South Molton Street in London's Mayfair. From the outer office came the hum of voices and the clink of glasses as the staff prepared to say farewell to her.
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Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best quiche will make her the toast of the town. But her recipe for social advancement sours when Judge Cummings-Browne not only snubs her entry—but falls over dead! After her quiche’s secret ingredient turns out to be poison, she must reveal the unsavory truth…

Agatha has never baked a thing in her life! In fact, she bought her entry ready-made from an upper crust London quicherie. Grating on the nerves of several Carsely residents, she is soon receiving sinister notes. Has her cheating and meddling landed her in hot water, or are the threats related to the suspicious death? It may mean the difference between egg on her face and a coroner’s tag on her toe…

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In order to introduce herself to the picturesque English village where she has just retired, Mrs. Agatha Raisin enters a quiche in a local competition and promptly finds herself a murder suspect when the judge dies from her poisonous pie.

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