Rating: 2/5
Review:
Not for me
I’m afraid Agatha Raisin and I didn’t get on. This was my first
Agatha Raisin and, in spite of all the praise this series has
garnered, it will probably be my last.
The plot, for the
record, concerns Agatha and her detective partner Toni investigating
industrial espionage at a local factory, where all kinds of Odd
Things seem to be going on and someone is Out To Get Them. It’s
mildly amusing in places, but I found most of the humour clunky and
overdone, the characters so caricatured and over-explained as to be
tedious clichés rather than witty parodies and the whole thing a bit
of a bore, really. After some judicious skimming I didn’t feel I
had missed much and I was quite glad to get to the end.
So, it definitely
wasn’t for me. Plenty of others, including people whose judgement
I respect greatly, find Agatha Raisin very amusing, but personally I
can’t recommend Beating About The Bush.
(My thanks to
Little, Brown for an ARC via NetGalley.)
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