The Bookish Island's Book Review:
The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton
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Title: The Quiche of Death
Author: M.C. Beaton
Series: Agatha Raisin #1
Series: Agatha Raisin #1
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Pages: 272
Publisher: St. Martins Paperback
Published: 2006
Genre: Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Cozy Mystery
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Date Read: July 15 > July 17, 2018
Rating: ★★★★☆
Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best quiche will make her the toast of the town. But her recipe for social advancement sours when Judge Cummings-Browne not only snubs her entry--but falls over dead! After her quiche's secret ingredient turns out to be poison, she must reveal the unsavory truth…
Agatha has never baked a thing in her life! In fact, she bought her entry ready-made from an upper crust London quicherie. Grating on the nerves of several Carsely residents, she is soon receiving sinister notes. Has her cheating and meddling landed her in hot water, or are the threats related to the suspicious death? It may mean the difference between egg on her face and a coroner's tag on her toe…
The Rating:
My Review:
I got introduced to Agatha Raisin when the series was announced. I don't remember when or where I heard about the show but I saw the photos and I thought it was going to be awesome so I waited till the first book got adapted. and they made a movie first. And when I saw it I fell so in love with Agatha and her friends and that little town so much that I wanted there to be more adaptations. Sure enough, after the movie of the first book came a series that adapted some of the other books. Though I think they weren't adapted in order. And the show was brilliant.
As for The Quiche of Death.
Agatha Raisin has just retired and is moving to the picture perfect cottage of Costwolds. There in the village of Carsely she tries to make friends but fails. And winds up participating in a quiche competition but buys an already made quiche. Then he quiche becomes the potential murder weapon when it winds up next to a crime scene where one of the villagers is found dead.
It was such an easy book to read. With well-written characters and great setting descriptions. The crime was brilliant and if I hadn't already seen the adaptation I wouldn't have known who the killer was until it was revealed. I had nearly forgotten too.
I also want to say that I felt madder at James while reading the book rather than the show. Because he was such an obvious coward when it came to being around Agatha. He didn't want to have her around but he was always around her. He was so confusing.
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