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The mystery wasn't much of one in terms of who did it, and there is one thread left hanging which irritated me a bit. Her natural voice has always been pleasant, but she is also extremely talented at performing various accents or regional dialects, adding a lisp, and supporting personalities related to gender, age, and education. The often penurious Sir Charles Fraith is having a flush period and even drops 20 pounds into the honesty collection box when he and Agatha visit the Rollright Stones location (a subplot using the real-life historical neolithic site). and describes the libretto for the opera 'Cavalleria Rusticana,' a tragedy about infidelity and love gone wrong. Whether these were from a 'raging against the dying of the light' or just attempts to make radical changes to the formula, they struck wrong notes for me and resulted a few 1 and 2 star reviews.
There was a man, Jasper Crane, who was the Demon Master in a role-playing game with Demons and angels. I struggled my way through what was one of my favourite authors, despairing how many times the old cases of Agatha Raisin were brought up. Edward Carstairs found a dead body positioned on an ancient stone, but when Agatha and her associate go to investigate, it’s gone. Agatha Raisin is still cranky at times, but is obviously caring about her friends and coworkers, and displays sensitivity and insecurity in her private moments.
Agatha's old friend, Sir Charles Fraith, after he took Agatha to the Rollright stones to learn more about them and the Lone Warrior, took Agatha to Antonio's ice cream. The book also has interesting tidbits about British legends - involving witches, knights, and the Devil - that are associated with ancient stones. He is concerned as things are missing from his company and wants them to find out what is happening. C. Beaton (1936-2019) was the author of both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, as well as numerous Regency romances. The main case involves a disappearing body at the site of a naturist camp (UK speak for nudists) which of course provides for teasing humour throughout.
Agatha and her assistant, Toni, are driving to their friend Bill Wong’s wedding, thinking of nothing more than what the beautiful bride will be wearing when a terrified young man comes running down the country lane towards them wearing.The plot was slow, not reaching anything much until halfway through the book, and it lacked the characters that we have grown to love, such as Roy coming down from London to help Agatha, adding his mix of youth to Agatha's exasperation, and several of the other usual characters too. Jasper Crane is a member of the Naturist club, and Agatha would have liked him had it not been for his beard; Agatha loathes beards on men. The people in this group have normal lives, but they get together as nudist on this particular area of land and they have some strange rituals. Toni suggests that since Ulrika leads the role-playing game for the naturist club, she may ask to participate and get a better idea of whether or not Ulrika and her sister killed Antonio.
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