Agatha Raisin: Devil's Delight: the latest cosy crime novel from the bestselling author

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C. Beaton (1936-2019) was the author of both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, as well as numerous Regency romances. Agatha has time to make two new romantic conquests, of whom one will likely make future appearances.

In the meantime, Agatha’s hectic life swirls along at dizzying pace, her private detective agency as busy as ever and her private affairs in turmoil – old loves to contend with and a new suitor on the scene. Frankly I don’t think this ever works out very well so fans of the original don’t be too disappointed. Bert, Agatha's housecleaner Doris Simpson's husband, sees her while cleaning James' cottage windows on the ladder. The people in this group have normal lives, but they get together as nudist on this particular area of land and they have some strange rituals. They think they see things that aren't real when a man tries to stop them, looking as if he wants to say something.Agatha persists with her pondering relationships of all kinds from close friends to employees, but mostly her thoughts focus on romance, love, and marriage with three varying candidates all with their own pros and cons; no resolution, but with its status quo comes a possible answer. Theresa mentions that Ursula and Ulrika can see things, knows where she is, and will kill Theresa when they see her. C. Beaton, pen-name of Marion Chesney (1936-2019) due to her great number of published works which helped me through the lockdown periods of the pandemic. Then soon after, they find a body in the lake that Agatha suspects might be the same body that Edward found on the Lone Warrior; Agatha and Toni are confident one or more of the naturist society killed the man in the lake.

Maybe it is me, as I haven't read an Agatha Raisin book for a while, but Agatha has become vainer about her looks. Google-worthy elements are added about the Rollright stones, Whispering Knights, the King Stone, and the Lone Warrior, the Italian opera Cavalleria Rusticana, and even unique ice cream flavors…chili peppers?Then before she knows it, she says she will go with him to a barbecue of the Mircester Naturist Society without any clothes! The often penurious Sir Charles Fraith is having a flush period and even drops 20 pounds into the honesty collection box when he and Agatha visit the Rollright Stones location (a subplot using the real-life historical neolithic site).

C. Beaton has once again changed up Agatha and made her bolder, more daring and the talk of the naturist colony' Just Reviews 'I feel the Agatha Raisin mysteries are in safe hands with R. He found a naked body on the Lone Warrior, a large slab of stone that once some people had made human sacrifices. It begins with the body of an unidentified man found on the land being used by a nudist colony, but in no time at all the body disappears and later a body is found floating in a lake. C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem' Publishers Weekly'[Agatha] is a glorious cross between Miss Marple, Auntie Mame, and Lucille Ball .While Charles and Agatha are driving away, Theresa jumps into the back seat of Charles' car and tells Charles to move the car and get her as far away as possible from Ursula and Ulrika.

This mystery's got everything - a naturist group, witchcraft, murder and an ice cream empire' USA Today'Author M. Agatha and her assistant, Toni, are driving to their friend Bill Wong’s long-awaited wedding, thinking of nothing more than what the beautiful bride will be wearing when a terrified young man comes running down the country lane towards them wearing…nothing at all.Despite fans of the television show seeing many differences in the book from age to ethnicity to personality and some characters only found in one or the other, it is unique, must read! He says he found the body at the edge of the woods, near an ancient stone known as The Lone Warrior and said to have once been used as a sacrificial altar.