Love these books. Light easy reads, typical small village countryside murders.
Love the characters !

The mystery was incidental (and rather implausible) but the story of Agatha's development was enjoyable. Not sure how long the author can plausibly keep going on this theme though.

It was a real struggle to finish this. Agatha is such an unlikeable character - angry, jealous and manipulative. And the lack of clues did not help the story. I don’t know why this series is so popular.

This is the second book in the Agatha Raisin's series. Another easy and enjoyable read. I'm warming up to Agatha Raisin's character. I'm just hoping that the series won't become like Midsomer Murders where everyone in the village and the surrounding villages dies!!!

As cute as the first.

Perfect summer read. Funny, a nice continuation to Mrs Raising new life, and the addition to the household is sooooooo right

Once again, M.C.Beaton has created a cozy mystery in The Vicious Vet. A dear friend recommended the Agatha Raisin series because she discovered this genre and thought I might enjoy it as well. I was familiar with some Agatha Christie and Dorthy L. Sayers and thought I would give them a try.

This is my second Agatha Raisin story; I like reading series in order. They are both easy-reading, so if you have occasional days with nothing to do, keep a stock of Agatha Raisin. She and her cohorts will keep you entertained.

Perhaps don't do what I'm doing and binge listen to these.

As much as I prefer something light, not necessarily requiring steely attention to catch the various nuances when I'm driving, I will admit there have been points where if I hear something about Agatha's middle age, bear-like eyes and good legs again I'll probably cause a major traffic incident. Having said that I don't mind these audio books as a companion for the constant kilometres or in the sewing room when I'm trying to fathom what goes where and how the hell are you supposed to achieve that!

They are a bit of silly fun. Agatha's mooning about over James is tedious definitely, but overall the plots are okay, and her detection style of irritating everyone about everything until somebody spits it and does something to her consistent with the overall personality of the characters, and the style of books.

If you're a fan of something that's on the cozier side, albeit with more than a bit of race, and some unexpected sex (more so in later book's so far) then this is not a nice series on audio.

Again a funny book, I like how the characters react. It does read a little bit old fashioned but all the people are old so I’m not surprised, it was also published in the early 90s so no mobile phones.
Agatha getting involved in all these little murders is unrealistic (a bit like midsummer murders) as they all happen in a tiny village where everyone knows everyone else. But I think that just makes it better because the way the village life is described is spot on even for today.