A Heaping Spoonful of Agatha Makes Perfect Village Mystery | A Spoonful of Poison (Agatha Raisin Mysteries,...

TWO SCOOPS OF RAISIN!!! | A Spoonful of Poison (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 19) | M. C. Beaton

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	• A Spoonful of Poison (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 19) M. C. Beaton St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Another wonderful little Agatha Raisin

If you have read any Agatha Raisin's you will know that when I speak of how much I love her and her insecurities, I am speaking about a wonderful creation. If you haven't read an Agatha Raisin, what is stopping you? If you love cozies with wonderful, heartwarming characters, then you must read this wonderful series. It is not for nothing that M.C. Beaton is thought to be the queen of the English cozy, and she seems to do it so effortlessly. In this book Agatha offers to help a small village with their church fete, and lo and behold people are jumping off bell towers and dying of heart attacks. What happened, Agatha wonders? Trying to find the reason sets her on a whirlwind investigation with her faithful young Toni by her side. (See what I mean, you need to read the series). Great stuff!

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A Heaping Spoonful of Agatha Makes Perfect Village Mystery

The irascible Agatha Raisin returns in her nineteenth adventure, as feisty, headstrong, and obnoxious as the day readers first fell in love with her. The outspoken sleuth is ready to tell the vicar of St. Odo the Severe she'll have nothing to do with helping him organize his church fete until she discovers handsome George Selby is also a volunteer. Man-hungry as ever, Agatha plunges headlong into making the small village fete the talk of the country and manages to bring murder and mayhem into the village.

When someone puts LSD into the jam, lots of the young people are happily stoned, but two of the village's elder citizens hallucinate themselves into death and Agatha's detective agency must solve the case in order to save its reputation. More murders plus one from the past will all be solved in the typical Raisin style followers of the series have come to love.

Old favorites like Sir Charles Fraith, Roy Silver, Mrs. Bloxby, and Bill Wong are all here as well as more recent additions like the lovely young Toni Gilmour and sometimes-employee Harry Beam. If you've been following the madcap adventures of Agatha and crew, you won't want to miss this latest installment. The return of James Lacey and Agatha's new hair extensions will have you howling and eagerly anticipating the meaning of Agatha's wave of fear and sense that something is terribly wrong with James.

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TWO SCOOPS OF RAISIN!!!

I ALWAYS enjoy Agatha Raisin and her antics with the men in her life and this book was no disappointment.
I'm so glad I stumbled onto it.
I usually read the front flap of a book before I buy it, but not Agatha Raisin.
When I see a new one I snatch it up IMMEDIATELY.
Looking forward to the next one.

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Agatha Falls Back on Her Worst Habits

A Spoonful of Poison is very much a formula book where Agatha does all of the things that she does when she's out of control. Naturally, that gets her into trouble . . . and thus there's potential for humor. But the book doesn't work as well as in the past because it's all too predictable and Agatha doesn't grow as a character. If anything, she regresses in selfish ways. As a result, she's usually at her least appealing in this book.

Unless you feel like you need to read every word that M.C. Beaton ever writes about Agatha Raisin, this is one book that you could skip.

Interestingly, if you haven't read an Agatha Raisin book before, you'll probably like this book better than if you have read them all. It will probably be a four-star book for you filled with enough cozy humor to be broadly appealing. The stories, jokes, and punch lines will seem fresher.

So what's it all about?

Agatha finds one of the organizers of a church fete, George Selby, to be physically attractive. Naturally, she volunteers to do the publicity so she can spend time with him. But he doesn't seem all that interested. That doesn't slow down our Agatha.

At the fete, something terrible happens and Agatha feels compelled to use her private investigation agency to get to the bottom of things. In the process, she finds that there are some skeletons in the local closets. In sorting out those skeletons, she managers to annoy Toni, her protégé . . . leading to complications that Agatha hasn't anticipated.

The book goes through quite a few mysterious events and almost seems like a series of connected short stories rather than one novel. As a result, there's plenty of value for those who like to see lots of Agatha in different postures.

Will she end up with a man . . . or a broken heart?

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Cranky but lovable sleuth Agatha Raisin?s detective agency has become so successful that she wants nothing more than to take quality time for rest and relaxation. But as soon as she begins closing the agency on weekends, she remembers that when she has plenty of quality time, she doesn?t know what to do with it. So it doesn?t take much for the vicar of a nearby village to persuade her to help publicize the church fete---especially when the fair?s organizer, George Selby, turns out to be a gorgeous widower.

Agatha brings out the crowds for the fete, all right, but there?s more going on than innocent village fun. Several of the offerings in the jam-tasting booth turn out to be poisoned, and the festive family event becomes the scene of two murders.

Along with her young and (much to her dismay) pretty sidekick, Toni, Agatha must uncover the truth behind the jam tampering, keep the church funds safe from theft, and expose the nasty secrets lurking in the village---all while falling for handsome George, who may have secrets of his own.

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