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Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet (Hardcover)

by M.C. Beaton (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Constable (29 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841195391
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841195391
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 14.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,018,330 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"- 'Anyone interested in a few hours' worth of intelligent, amusing reading will want to make the acquaintance of Mrs. Agatha Raisin.' - The Cleveland Pain Dealer - 'Agatha Raisin is sharp, witty, hugely intelligent, unfailingly entertaining, delightfully intolerant and oh so magnificently non PC. M C Beaton has created a new national treasure... the stories zing along and are irresistible, unputdownable, a joy. If you buy one book a year, let it be this. Agatha Raisin is The Strongest Link.' - Anne Robinson - 'Beaton's dry sense of humour and her unflattering but affectionate portrait of gruff, often adolescent acting Agatha make this... tale a bloom worth picking.' - Publishers Weekly - 'Engaging' - Booklist

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The feisty Agatha Raisin, unitl recentlya London public-relations executive, believes that the attractive new village vet has taken a shine to her. Yet before romance can bloom, Dr Paul Bladen accidently kills himself under suspicious circumstances while attending to Lord Pendlebury's horse. Oh well, for Agatha there's still her distinguished neighbour, James Lacey, a retired military man who's been playing hard to get. Perhaps they may get chummier as they share a common interest, like a murder investigation. Though numerous village ladies are devestated by Dr Bladen's death, other people- including his divorced wife- feel its good ridance. All agree, however, that Agatha would be well advised to let sleeping dogs lie- before someone else meets death by accident...

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT FUN, 12 April 2001
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The cover describes Agatha Raisin as a cross between Miss Marple and Lucille Ball (and Auntie Mame - but I don't know her). This is quite accurate. The story is most amusing, the dialogue is great and the insights into English country living are hilarious. This is the first Agatha Raisin I have read (mainly because it dealt with a vet) and I am hooked. I am ordering the rest of the series at once.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sex, Drugs and Disco, 16 Oct 2005
By Dennis Phillips "The Book Friar" (Bulls Gap, Tennessee USA) - See all my reviews
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In the second book of this delightful series Agatha has turned her romantic attentions away from her next door neighbor James Lacey and toward Paul Bladen, the new vet in Carsely. Unfortunately for Agatha, many of the other ladies in town have done the same and it appears that there could be a free for all until the vet turns up dead. The police rule it an accident but Agatha isn't convinced and neither is James Lacey it turns out. In fact, now that Agatha doesn't appear to be chasing after him anymore Lacey is quite comfortable hanging around with her and the two are soon hot on the trail of what might well be an imaginary killer.

As it turns out, several of Bladen's lady friends were no longer his friends at all by the time of his death and the list of suspects is therefore rather long. Then, at a meeting of the Carsely Ladies Society one of the suspects who has had far too much of the spiked apple cider announces loudly to Agatha that she will tell her everything about the "Vicious Vet" the next morning. The next morning the suspect list is reduced by one as Agatha finds her informant dead. Again Agatha and James are left to wonder if this death is natural or murder.

In this series entry the author introduces several new characters into the Carsely landscape, most of who are suspects in the vet's death. Back from the first book are Agatha's policeman friend Bill Wong, her cleaning lady Doris Simpson, Mrs. Bloxby who always seems to bring out the best in Agatha and of course James Lacey. The reader will also in this book get an explanation of Lacey's phobia like fear of aggressive females. This being one of Lacey's main character traits and the trait that most frustrates Agatha it is good to finally understand what is going on.

I was quite fond of the first entry in this series but I liked this book even more. The first book in any series always bogs down just a tad in the author's effort to define the characters and the series' setting. That having been done in the first book, this entry had a much better flow and was in fact a real page-turner. I found this to be one of those books that kept me up far into the night as I read on to see what would happen next. The mystery itself does occasionally take a back set to the characters but that is a common trait in these type of warm fuzzy mysteries and when the characters are as enjoyable as the ones in this book this trait is indeed a blessing and not a flaw.

Was the death of the "Vicious Vet" an accident? Did one of his lady friends simply die of complications from her diabetes with no foul play involved? Or is there a wild murderer loose Cotswolds? There is only one way to find out and I highly recommend that you do so.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Agatha entertains again, 2 Sep 2004
By L O'connor (richmond, surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This is the second mystery in the series featuring Agatha Raisin, an energetic woman who has worked in Public Relations all her life, and taken early retirement to live in a picturesque country village. In this book, the local vet, who is very popular with the ladies, dies suddenly, apparently by accident, but Agatha thinks otherwise. She manages to get her handsome neighbour, James Lacey,on whom she has a crush, interested, and together they investigate the mystery. It turns out that some of the ladies whom the vet charmed had a grudge against him, and one of them dies very suddenly and suspiciously. This is quite an amusing series, Agatha is an entertaining character, though I find her desperate pursuit of James Lacey a bit pathetic. I'd prefer it if she was more independent and not so desperate to get a man, it's hard to imagine Miss Marple purusing her next-door-neighbour so blatantly and frantically.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Raisin Irony
Second in the Agatha Raisin series by Marion Chesney (writing as M.C.Beaton). Agatha, retired PR guru (and she would emphasise that she retired early), returns to her archetypal... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Another one bites the dust
I am ashamed to admit that I even read this book after reading 'Quiche of Death'. I should have known better. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Book Worm

3.0 out of 5 stars Silly but enjoyable escapism.
This is the sort of book you can whip through in a day or so. It makes very light bedtime reading and although it's very silly in places I'm more than happy to take all that... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Fun read but very contrived
This is the first Agatha Raisin book I managed to get hold of, and I was originally quite keen to read them all. Having read this one, however, I'm not so sure. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Agatha Acquires a Detecting Partner
Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet (Veterinarian) is the second book in the Agatha Raisin series of mysteries by M. C. Read more
Published on 19 Jun 2007 by Professor Donald Mitchell

4.0 out of 5 stars Agatha Acquires a Detecting Partner
Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet (Veterinarian) is the second book in the Agatha Raisin series of mysteries by M. C. Read more
Published on 19 Jun 2007 by Professor Donald Mitchell

5.0 out of 5 stars Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
“The Vicious Vet” is the second instalment in the long running series of books to feature that indomitable retiree of a certain age, Mrs Agatha Raisin. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2006 by Rich Milligan

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