Genre: Mystery
Hardcover; Mass Market Paperback; [Audio CD]; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9781250157720; 9781250157737; [9781538451878]
Minotaur Books [Blackstone Publishing]
256 Pages
$16.82; $7.99; $19.11; $13.99 Amazon
December 3, 2019
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When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems.
The factory mystery soon turns to murder and a bad-tempered donkey turns Agatha into a national celebrity, before bringing her ridicule and shame. To add to her woes, Agatha finds herself grappling with growing feelings for her friend and occasional lover, Sir Charles Fraith. Then, as a possible solution to the factory murder unfolds, her own life is thrown into deadly peril. Will Agatha get her man at last? Or will the killer get her first?
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Agatha Raisin is at it again. She’s on a case with her employee Toni, and uses one of her favorite phrases, “Nice place to dump a body,” but unexpectedly, they think they’ve come across one when they see shoes with a leg attached. Unfortunately, after calling the police, it’s not real. Still, Agatha wonders how it looks so much like the leg of Mrs. Dinwiddy, secretary to the man they’re working for. But when Mrs. Dinwiddy is indeed found dead, it’s ruled an accident, although Agatha refuses to believe it.
She has other problems, too — she dumped her fiance when she found out his past, and she’s worried if Toni gets married, she’ll lose her as an employee. But Agatha thinks that Morrison is setting them up in order not to pay them, and she’s going to continue to investigate Mrs. Dinwiddy’s murder. With the help of her employees and PR man Ron Silver, she’s determined to solve the case...even if it kills her...
We’re back with Agatha, her employees, and of course, Sir Charles Fraith. Agatha’s working on a new case that isn’t going the way she expects it to, and after butting heads with the local police inspector, she decides she can do a better job than him and proceeds to carry on with the investigation. She’s convinced her employee Toni that she’s right, and the two of them have put their heads together to figure out a way to prove Mr. Morrison had something to do with his secretary’s murder. Just what, though, they aren’t sure. Then a donkey takes to Agatha, and she uses it to her advantage in the investigation.
I liked how everything was put together, and the fact that Toni can give as good as she gets from Agatha, while still doing her job. There’s not so much of Mrs. Bloxby in this book, but then again, there doesn’t need to be. And while the humor is less to the forefront, there was still enough about the book to keep me interested and to find out who the murderer really was and also the reason the woman was murdered.
This is the thirtieth book in the series, and while I still find them very good, I was hoping for a bit more. While I enjoyed the mystery sufficiently, I felt left down somewhat since the blurb intimated more than it delivered. While I have no problem reading another one in this series, and certainly will do so, I was hoping for what I thought would be a more satisfactory ending.
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