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There Goes the Bride (Agatha Raisin #20)
by
M.C. Beaton
Bossy, impulsive Cotswold detective agency owner Agatha Raisin jokingly responds "Shoot her?" when ex-husband James Lacey desperately seeks last-minute reprieve. Suave Sylvan Dubois manipulated simple-minded surgically-created beauty Felicity and charms Agatha. But she is suspect #1 when a fatal bullet prevents the vows.
Hardcover, Minotaur, 277 pages
Published
2009
by St Martin's
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Finally, I've finished by Agatha Raisin reading blitz of the whole series (until the new one comes out in October). I have to admit, because after the first one I wasn't sure I would like the character, that I am now a big Agatha Raisin fan. I enjoyed her emotional and social growth throughout the series, and I think it was an advantage in reading straight through the series to fully appreciate that growth. Her humanity was somewhat lacking in the beginning, but Agatha has done a lot of growing...more
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’Agatha Raisin There Goes the Bride’ by M C Beaton
Published by Constable, November 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84529-953-8
I read the first book in this series when Agatha Raisin retires to the Cotswolds and decides to get involved in village life. Whilst it was an interesting mystery I didn’t take to Agatha Raisin, in fact I found her downright unpleasant. However, I am aware that she has a large fan base, so nineteen further books on I decided to give her a second go. I was considerably surprised that th...more
Published by Constable, November 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84529-953-8
I read the first book in this series when Agatha Raisin retires to the Cotswolds and decides to get involved in village life. Whilst it was an interesting mystery I didn’t take to Agatha Raisin, in fact I found her downright unpleasant. However, I am aware that she has a large fan base, so nineteen further books on I decided to give her a second go. I was considerably surprised that th...more
Ive read all the Agatha Raisin books to date and im sorry to say that this one is absolutely awful.
The story was overly predicatble ,boring and the charactisation dredful.
As another reviewer points out the author repeats herself over and over again with the same use of words "pugnacious faces, steel grey hair " .It was as if MC Beaton had actually forgotton how to write .
This was such a huge disapointment from beginning to end I rushed through it just to finish it, whereby other Agatha Raisin st...more
The story was overly predicatble ,boring and the charactisation dredful.
As another reviewer points out the author repeats herself over and over again with the same use of words "pugnacious faces, steel grey hair " .It was as if MC Beaton had actually forgotton how to write .
This was such a huge disapointment from beginning to end I rushed through it just to finish it, whereby other Agatha Raisin st...more
Agatha's former husband James is engaged to be married to a beautiful, young woman and Agatha has been kindly invited to the wedding. To take her mind off this, Agatha decides she has fallen for Sylvan, a Frenchman she met at James' engagement party. To distract her still further she decides upon a holiday and flies to Istanbul, where unfortunately she bumps into James and his fiancee not once but twice - convincing him she is stalking them. So when the bride is murdered on her wedding day, natu...more
I read this series because it is just great fun....and because it is set in England. Reading it is rather like listening to rock and roll after listening to a Mahler Symphony. This newest book is rather more abrupt in its twists and turns.
Agatha’s former husband James is engaged to be married to a beautiful, young woman and Agatha has been kindly invited to the wedding. To take her mind off this, Agatha decides she has fallen for Sylvan, a Frenchman she met at James’ engagement party. To distra...more
Agatha’s former husband James is engaged to be married to a beautiful, young woman and Agatha has been kindly invited to the wedding. To take her mind off this, Agatha decides she has fallen for Sylvan, a Frenchman she met at James’ engagement party. To distra...more
This is the perfect beach book--and since I happen to be spending the week at the beach--a good choice. I think that this the 20th book in the Agatha Raisin series. Agatha Raisin is an overweight, insecure, scarcastic, middle aged woman who is constantly getting into scrapes from which she has to be rescued by her friends. Sounds a bit like me. Oh, but wait. Agatha is very wealthy and owns a detective agency in the English Cotswolds. In this outing, Agatha is distressed about the fact that she d...more
Well, looks like I have finally found a female P.I. protagonist that I can really relate to. Agatha Raisen is in her 50’s, has an arthritic hip that constantly gives her trouble, is just a tad jealous of Toni (the blond, beautiful and extremely photogenic junior member of the detective agency) and is feeling a more than a little insecure about her looks since her ex-husband James has decided to marry a woman several years his junior.
When Felicity, James’s bride-to-be, is shot dead on her wedding...more
When Felicity, James’s bride-to-be, is shot dead on her wedding...more
Agatha Raisin, Cotswold detective agency owner, intuitively brilliant and emotionally foolish, human balance of kindness and weakness, smokes, drinks, swears "Snakes and bastards", hops into bed with newest crush, solves knifings, mutilations, multiple murders (view spoiler). X-rating better in small doses, alternated with Beaton's Scottish Hamish Macbeth, who gives up smoking, falls for an available pretty face, also bends the law,...more
THERE GOES THE BRIDE by M C Beaton is 277 pages in paperback form.
Brief Description:
For whom the wedding bells toll...
Much as it goes against the grain, Agatha Raisin is trying to be a good sport. Even though her ex-husband James Lacey's upcoming marriage to the beautiful Felicity Bross-Tilkington fills her heart with dread, she takes a break from her successful detective agency to attend the wedding. It seems like a good idea at the time -- especially since Agatha's had her sights on the tres h...more
Brief Description:
For whom the wedding bells toll...
Much as it goes against the grain, Agatha Raisin is trying to be a good sport. Even though her ex-husband James Lacey's upcoming marriage to the beautiful Felicity Bross-Tilkington fills her heart with dread, she takes a break from her successful detective agency to attend the wedding. It seems like a good idea at the time -- especially since Agatha's had her sights on the tres h...more
In this book, Agatha Raisin, private detective, finds herself the prime suspect in a thrilling murder involving her ex-husbands fiancé. On her ex’s big wedding day, the bride-to-be, a whiny young women far out of her ex’s league, is found murdered in her bedroom. What unfolds is a scandalous mystery full of international crime and intrigue with Agatha right at its center.
I did not realize at the time that this book was part of a series (quite a long one, in fact – this was book #20!), which made...more
I did not realize at the time that this book was part of a series (quite a long one, in fact – this was book #20!), which made...more
This is the 20th book in this series, and I dare say, that this series is turning into one long book. Agatha Raisin is not changing and she is not learning from her previous disasters. You would think that MC Beaton would have been tired of writing the same old, same old, by now, but apparently not.
Agatha’s former husband, James Lacey, is engaged to a much younger woman and both wistful and loathing Agatha has been invited to attend the wedding festivities. At the engagement party, she is swept...more
Agatha’s former husband, James Lacey, is engaged to a much younger woman and both wistful and loathing Agatha has been invited to attend the wedding festivities. At the engagement party, she is swept...more
One of the problems with reading a series is sometimes the author loses their way with characters or story lines and end up just writing to complete another story. The last few Agatha Raisin novels have fallen into that rut.
Luckily there's been a little rebound in this last book. The story was a little less bumbling and Agatha was much more likable (which is saying something since she's not always a likable gal).
The story starts at the wedding of Agatha's ex James Lacey when the bride to be is s...more
Luckily there's been a little rebound in this last book. The story was a little less bumbling and Agatha was much more likable (which is saying something since she's not always a likable gal).
The story starts at the wedding of Agatha's ex James Lacey when the bride to be is s...more
Agatha Raisin is unlucky in love, yet she,s hopelessly romantic. Her exhusband James Lacey is getting married to the beautiful Felicity Bross-Tilkington and it fills Agatha heart with dread. She reluntly takes time from from her successful detective agency to to attend the wedding. Even though she has her sights set on a new man handsome beguiling French man Sylvan. But when the bride is shot and killed moments before the wedding. And Agatha is named the prime suspect . Toni stands ready to help...more
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I really like this book! I have found my new summer reading author! Actually, I think I need to get ALL of her books in paperback so that I always have something to read!
Agatha Raisin is an English, 50ish, divorced woman, and owner of a detective agency. She's also lonely, selfish, petty, jealous, spiteful, and a chain smoker! This book (20th in the series) starts out attending Agatha's ex-husbands wedding. From there she is hired to find a murder. Then, bodies start showing up!
This is the 1st b...more
Agatha Raisin is an English, 50ish, divorced woman, and owner of a detective agency. She's also lonely, selfish, petty, jealous, spiteful, and a chain smoker! This book (20th in the series) starts out attending Agatha's ex-husbands wedding. From there she is hired to find a murder. Then, bodies start showing up!
This is the 1st b...more
I thought this one would never end! I have enjoyed listening to all of the previous Agatha Raisin books read by Donada Peters, this is the first read by Penelope Keith, and it just isn't the same. Keith's voice is rather bland and her accents not very good. I will keep listening (as they are still light little mysteries that don't take a lot of concentration), but I'm not sure for how much longer.
As for the story it is a typical Agatha Raisin but it seems to jump around a lot (much more than her...more
As for the story it is a typical Agatha Raisin but it seems to jump around a lot (much more than her...more
Some books you have a hard time putting down. This one I had a hard time finishing. I enjoy getting enough hints in a mystery that I might be able to guess the end, but I don't enjoy when even every little sub plot was so obvious that I knew what came next. Then the author seemed to think that she had to tell you the same thing many times in the book to make sure you got it. Example: describing the way a couple women that worked in her agency dressed. I can remember at least seven times she note...more
Trouble (and murder!) seem to follow Agatha Raisin around. This time when Agatha attends her ex-husband's wedding she doesn't expect the bride to turn up dead, but that is exactly what happens. While Agatha isn't sure how she feels about James Lacey, her ex-husband and on-and-off again crush, she certainly doesn't wish his fiance dead. When Felicity Bross-Tilkington turns up dead right before the "I Do's" the policy point their fingers at Agatha and it's up to Agatha to prove her innocence.
I lov...more
I lov...more
After reading several long, somewhat literary tomes, I'm back to my old habit of reading light "cozy" mystery, in this case one in M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin series. Her writing style is becoming ever more abbreviated and she is just "mailing it in" in her latest books, but it is relaxing to read this brief, familiar genre before picking up Graham Greene's the Comedians, which I have to read for March. I will review when done.
Review: I finished this during the Snowmaggdon and it was a disappoin...more
Review: I finished this during the Snowmaggdon and it was a disappoin...more
Agatha Raisin is unlucky in love, yet she’s hopelessly romantic. Her ex-husband James Lacey is getting married to the beautiful Felicity Bross-Tilkington and it fills Agatha heart with dread. She reliantly takes time from her successful detective agency to attend the wedding.
Even though she has her sights set on a new man handsome beguiling French man Sylvan. But when the bride is shot and killed moments before the wedding. And Agatha is named the prime suspect.
This is the 1st book I've read i...more
Even though she has her sights set on a new man handsome beguiling French man Sylvan. But when the bride is shot and killed moments before the wedding. And Agatha is named the prime suspect.
This is the 1st book I've read i...more
The problem with a long, ever growing series is that not all of them can hit it out of the park. This new Agatha Raisin was not up to some of the earlier mysteries in the Cotswolds that our dear, ferocious Aggie has encountered. The main story ends partway through, but there is a back story about a killer on the lam and Agatha's constant search for love that continues the book to novel length. I think for someone new to the series they would be confused, there is very little to explain who some...more
I’ve read several of the Agatha Raisin series and give this high praise to MC Beaton: Agatha is written so well that I like her, but can find her annoying, especially where men are involved. Agatha seems so much like a real person!
In this book she’s worrying about getting old, marked by an achy hip, and feels life is starting to pass her by. Her ex-husband James is marrying a young woman and Agatha is invited to the wedding. The bride is murdered before the wedding and, of course, Agatha become...more
In this book she’s worrying about getting old, marked by an achy hip, and feels life is starting to pass her by. Her ex-husband James is marrying a young woman and Agatha is invited to the wedding. The bride is murdered before the wedding and, of course, Agatha become...more
I don't read this series because I think it's great literature, but because it's usually great fun. This entry, however, seemed particularly weak. The plot was so scattered that I'm nearly ready to accuse Beaton of using one of those internet plot-generator sites, and it seemed as though the central mystery was solved a little past the halfway mark. The rest of the book is spent chasing loose ends, and with a completely inexplicable (even for Agatha) romance.
Personally, I think Sir Charles shoul...more
Personally, I think Sir Charles shoul...more
I read this instead of listening to it as I did the others, and I think that was a mistake. The writing is simply unartful and clumsy, and this is more apparent when you're looking at words rather than listening. I also thought the book would never end. The last fifty pages or so seemed tacked on to satisfy an arbitrary page count. Still Agatha Raisin is as amusing as ever with her imperfections and flawed thinking. The lightly plotted novel was about all I could manage this month given all the...more
I found this a better read than some of the others - as it had a better mystery in it and, although Agatha is full of angst for some reason the fact it is about her ability as a detective and not a woman for most of the time is more acceptable to me! The end was a bit rushed and did not really add anything to the main story.
Much as it goes against the grain, Agatha Raisin is trying to be a good sport. Even though her ex-husband James Lacey’s upcoming marriage to the beautiful Felicity Bross-Tilk...more
Much as it goes against the grain, Agatha Raisin is trying to be a good sport. Even though her ex-husband James Lacey’s upcoming marriage to the beautiful Felicity Bross-Tilk...more
This is the first "Agatha Raisin Mystery," written by M. C. Beaton I have ever read. First time I read anything by this author.
I really didn't find this book very exciting, and it wasn't difficult to figure out who the bad guy/guys were either. Every time something happened he was there. Leaving me wondering, how did he get here, where did he come from, and why he was always there at another crime scene?
Agatha has a very unhappy love life, hopelessly romantic, she is so unlucky in love. With h...more
I really didn't find this book very exciting, and it wasn't difficult to figure out who the bad guy/guys were either. Every time something happened he was there. Leaving me wondering, how did he get here, where did he come from, and why he was always there at another crime scene?
Agatha has a very unhappy love life, hopelessly romantic, she is so unlucky in love. With h...more
Another typical Agatha Raisin novel....I wish I could get un-hooked. I love Beaton's Hamish Macbeth books, and somehow I have to read every Agatha Raisin novel because of that, but I don't like them a whole lot. I find Agatha rather pathetic and annoying, and am easily frustrated by her constant neediness and obsessions and the fact that she cannot learn from anything. I am not completely cold-hearted though, I feel sorry for her because she really does seem to attract only men that are either j...more
I love all the Agatha Raisin books. I found I was a bit disappointed with this one though. It didn't have her usual pizazz. The book was too much of a formula being played out. My opinion, but I felt like I could predict what was going to happen next which when reading MC's books I don't usually find this the case. The story was delightful though. I love a great escape with Agatha anytime. She is always good for a laugh at her antics and her human foibles. MC never fails to deliver on Agatha's v...more
Oh how I love spending the evening with Beaton's imperfect heroine Agatha Raisin. One reveiwer calls her a glorious cross between, Miss Marple, Auntie Mame and Lucille Ball with a tad of pitbull tossed in. Another, "Agatha is like Miss Marple with a drinking problem, pack-a-day habit and major man lust. Living a dream in the English country cottage and solving murder mysteries." In any event, the characters are great fun, the plots solid and beautifully written. Lots of fun indeed!
Agatha Raisin is one nasty piece of work. One of the most self-centered lead characters of any series, she really outdoes herself by showing up at her ex-husband's wedding just in time for the bride-to-be to be murdered. I found the writing and the situations clumsy and not very convincing.
I found it very unpleasant. I keep trying to read this series, because I do like the Hamish series this writer does, but it's a no go for me when it comes to Agatha.
I found it very unpleasant. I keep trying to read this series, because I do like the Hamish series this writer does, but it's a no go for me when it comes to Agatha.
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M. C. Beaton has been hailed as "the new Queen of Crime." She is the New York Times bestselling author of the Agatha Raisin mysteries, which began with The Quiche of Death and also include As the Pig Turns and Busy Body, set in the English Cotswolds, as well as the Hamish M...more
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Marion Gibbons
Charlotte Ward
M. C. Beaton has been hailed as "the new Queen of Crime." She is the New York Times bestselling author of the Agatha Raisin mysteries, which began with The Quiche of Death and also include As the Pig Turns and Busy Body, set in the English Cotswolds, as well as the Hamish M...more
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