Highly enjoyable light listening

This is not my usual fare. I came across the first 4 novels in a compendium I bought by impulse in a sale. I read and thoroughly enjoyed them as a some holiday reading.



The audiobooks are well enough read by Penelope Keith. Some of the characterisations may be a bit lacking but the story telling is engaging.



As bed time listening they are recommended.

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Fabulous

Another super installment in the life of Agatha Raisin with a couple of grizzly murders thrown in.

Read brilliantly by the magnificent Penelope Keith.

Overall very enjoyable

I do really enjoy this series and I like the character if Agatha a lot.

However there are two things that get repeated and I'm a bit bored of now. The relationship with James, he just seems more and more of a twit who doesn't appreciate her and hasn't grown as a character at all. And the constant thread of her feeling like she doesn't fit in, threatening to move back to London etc. I don't think either of these things need to be kept going, but after having read ahead in the synopsis of the other books at least one of them does, oh well.

Good as always....

Agatha Raisin is as always.... good. So is Penelope Keith reading the story. I cannot imagine anyone else doing the dialogue. Agatha reminds me at times of myself.

Another easy listening tape.

Narration by Penelope Keith, as always, was brilliant. She IS Agatha Raisin as far as I am concerned. I did not find the story as good as others in London he collection.

Age the Raisin and the Wellspring of Death

If you like a cosy murder mystery this is for you, Well worth a listen to.

Like a pair of comfy slippers

MC Beaton never disappoints. Her stories are always comforting and Agatha Raisin a comical and likeable lead. This book follows in the same vein as all the others, in that the murder often feels incidental to the rest of the plot line, with Agatha's personal life featuring front and centre. Read well, except for the odd dodgy accent (Mr Wong's Chinese accent is shoddy), the five or so hours fly past.

M.C.Beaton's Agatha Raisin book

this was a fast moving light hearted story. easy to listen to and very well narrated by Penelope Keith. the Wellspring of Death was a good story It is nice not to have too much swearing which seems to be the current trend.

Only good thing is the reader!

Penelope Keith is the only thing about this book that makes it worth listening too.
The Raisin stories tend to follow the same format which becomes very boring if you listen/read more than one.
The vicar's wife is perhaps the only likeable person in these books.
The story isn't that brilliant, even allowing for the fact that it is 'cosy'.

The only mystery is how the author gets away with writing what is effectively the same book over and over again.

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One of the best series

Since the Agatha Raisin series is not available in German, I started reading them in English. Penepole Keith IS Agatha. I downloaded a lot of the audiobooks and after finishing one, I cant wait to start the next one.