I have all the 'Agatha Raisin' book, and loved most of them. However, when I read "A Spoonful of Poison", I was very disappointed in the rush job that seems to have been done, and I wasn't sure whether I wanted to buy another 'Agatha Raisin' novel again.
However, I have bought 'There Goes the Bride', and was relieved to see that this book was far better than the last one, even though the scenes (and people) kept changing at an alarming pace.
One thing I was a little put off with was the fact that Ms Beaton seems to think that any woman over the age of 50 is a dead horse. The description of the 2 ladies - Mrs. Fellows and Mrs. Dimity, who clean Mrs. Bross' house - was as follows: "Both looked to be in their late fifties, and they both had the same tightly permed grey hair..."
Now, in this day and age, there is rarely a woman in her 50s or even 60s anymore who still runs around with tightly permed grey hair. At least, I have never met a woman that looked like she just stepped out of an old Agatha Christie novel, because that's how the women all seem to look like, as if they still lived in the 1920s and 1930s, with their tightly permed grey hair. Grey hair, perhaps. Tightly permed hair? Definitely not. LOL Sorry about that, but it does annoy me.
Another thing I found quite unbelievable was the fact that Agatha was able to just march back into the agency and take over. She had retired and handed over the agency to Toni, Phil and Patrick, making them equal partners. All this doesn't sound very realistic, and it seems that Ms. Beaton is taking too much of an artistic license.
Otherwise, not a bad story.
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