My first Agatha Raisin was great fun. I've read one Hamish MacBeth so was great to see two completely different characters that were equally likeable. This is how a 'cosy mystery' should be done. Gentle, sweet, funny with a great plot to top it off. Agatha Raisin is entirely lovable, despite her irritating habits and obsession with her ex-husband, and you can't help but highly relate to her well written character.
Agatha is hired by a Parish counsellor to visit the small village of Piddlebury (how can you not love that name!) after a newcomer named Gloria is found poisoned. Gloria was intensely disliked by the majority of the village, mostly for her tendencies to take other people's possessions and not give them back. Therefore you would imagine that she has plenty of enemies who would be only too glad to 'do her in.' But the village is very strange, as no one wants to either talk about Gloria or find out who killed her. Agatha has her work cut out here!
I loved this, easy to read, amusing and highly likeable.
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