Agatha Raisin: Devil's Delight: the latest cosy crime novel from the bestselling author

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Nice place to dump a body?” said Toni, then, returning Agatha and Edward’s bemused stares with a shrug, added, “She says it all the time.” Jasper has Agatha taste Antonio's ice cream and tells her about his favorite flavor Antonio makes called Devil' Delight, which has chili peppers in it. Ursula always calls him when they make it. The Devil's Delight ice cream is the part where I can't explain further without getting into spoilers, and I try not to write spoilers.

I’ve been lied to by many men,” Agatha said slowly, “and I pride myself on having learned to tell precisely when a man is lying—especially the naked ones.” Agatha goes by the offices of Crane MacLean, an accounting firm. She met accountant and partner Jasper Crane when she and Toni went to see the disappearing body with Edward. 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. However, she wanted to talk to Jasper, and Jasper convinced her to go to Antonio's company, as nobody was there, as they closed for a while because of Antonio's death. But Ursula and Jim Sullivan, the hotheaded owner of Antonio's rival ice cream shop, were there talking. After Agatha sees Ursula again, she is suspicious even more as Ursula doesn't seem that she is in the least bit upset that her husband is dead. Also, Ursula asks Jasper to review some of Antonio's ice cream shop's business records as she plans to sell to Jim Sullivan. Agatha thought it was too soon to sell after such a horrific experience. There was a man, Jasper Crane, who was the Demon Master in a role-playing game with Demons and angels. He had two handmaidens who did his bidding for the game. The two handmaidens that Agatha and Toni met and thought were a little too weird and instantly put them on their list of suspects were two sisters, Ursula Danieli and Ulrika Rayner.The next R.W. Green continuation book will be #35 in the Hamish Macbeth series Death of a Traitor, with an expected February 14, 2023 date of publication. Be not leery, although this is the thirty-third Agatha Raisin mystery, it is the third book for R.W. Green who continues to stay true to M.C. Beaton’s original vision of her fashionista title character. The caseloads offers a creative murder mystery, clever details, quirky characters, and a potential for perilous predicament. Agatha’s theories about the murder slowly point to the perp, but the excitement is in “how” the perpetrators are exposed and arrested. Google-worthy elements are added about the Rollright stones, Whispering Knights, the King Stone, and the Lone Warrior, the Italian opera Cavalleria Rusticana, and even unique ice cream flavors…chili peppers? Green’s writing style is definitely entertaining with the descriptive narrative, clever quips, snarky responses, and continued conflicts with DI Wilkes you expect to see. Agatha persists with her pondering relationships of all kinds from close friends to employees, but mostly her thoughts focus on romance, love, and marriage with three varying candidates all with their own pros and cons; no resolution, but with its status quo comes a possible answer. Despite fans of the television show seeing many differences in the book from age to ethnicity to personality and some characters only found in one or the other, it is unique, must read! Few things in life are more satisfying than to discover a brand-new Agatha Raisin mystery’ Tampa Tribune-Times Then she finds herself in deadly danger when she begins to close in on a suspected murderer and the sinister nature of the ice cream business leads her to a chilling conclusion.

Private detective Agatha Raisin - a fiftyish Englishwoman with small bear-like eyes and shiny brown hair - lives in Carsley, a pretty village in the Cotswolds. Terrified, he explains that he has just seen a dead body in the woods. Toni lends him an old t-shirt to cover himself, Agatha calls the police, and the young man takes them to the spot where he saw the body, across from a meadow where the Mircester Naturist Club is due to have its annual summer barbecue. So, anyone hiding in the woods watching you,” Agatha pondered, scanning the treeline all around the clearing, “could have made off without returning to the pavilion and without us seeing them.” Just cover yourself up,” Agatha said, a sharp note of impatience in her voice, “and get in. I want to see where you found the body. You can tell us how you ended up in this state on the way.” Toni decides she wants to go undercover as Edward's girlfriend at the Mircester Naturist Club and become involved in the club so that she can get to know the people; Toni is willing to go naked.I came here earlier today to start preparing for our annual barbecue and put our emergency contingency plan in motion,” Edward explained. I liked how much John Glass liked Agatha and treated her so well. I hope we find them as a couple in future books. After all, we met Giovanni, the Italian choral director, who slept with Agatha and didn't want anything to do with her the next day. I didn't trust Giovanni from the beginning. He seemed too good to be true. Agatha and her business associate Toni Gilmore are driving to their friend, Peter Wong and Alice Peter's wedding. They see a naked man running down the road. They stop and he tells them he saw a man dead. The man's name is Edward Carstairs. They ask him to take them to where he found the body. He takes them to a naturist club but when they get there they find that the body is missing.. The police are called. Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes arrives along with Deputy Gittens. They are told by Edward about what he saw and that the body is now missing.. Wilkes and Agatha are not fond of each other. When there Agatha and Toni meet the chairman of the club Jasper Crane. along with sister's Ursula Danieli and Ulrika Raynor. Agatha and Toni feel that there are strange things going on at the camp.. They go to the wedding arriving just in time. The story has so much happening that it is hard for me to put it all in writing.. With Agatha trying to figure out what is going on the story takes off and the reader is taken on an adventure of who the dead man is, the different situations that Agatha and her employees get themselves into. The story comes to an exciting and unexpected ending that I don't want to spoil for the reader.

The two other cases in the story are also fun to follow. Again I will leave this to the reader to enjoy. Agatha's nemesis, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes, dismisses the incident as a pratical joke and refuses to make inquiries. I believe you saw something here,” said Agatha, studying the stone, “but in my experience a dead body does not get up and walk away. What exactly did you see here? How close did you get?” Crime in the Cotswolds has never been livelier than in Agatha’s fizzingly funny cases, and this one takes the biscuit’– Peterborough TelegraphGenre Audiobooks Buy Agatha Raisin: Devil's Delight by M.C. Beaton, read by Penelope Keith (Audiobook extract) Agatha and Toni go to see the body, but the body isn't there; the body disappears. Edward insists that he saw a body but that it must have disappeared! Then soon after, they find a body in the lake that Agatha suspects might be the same body that Edward found on the Lone Warrior; Agatha and Toni are confident one or more of the naturist society killed the man in the lake. Disclosure: I received an ARC from St. Martin’s Press thru NetGalley. My review is voluntary with honest insights and comments.

If you’re seeing a naked young man running down the middle of the road towards us,” Agatha replied, unable to tear her eyes away from the spectacle, “then, yes—I’m seeing everything.”But if someone had decided to dump a body here,” Toni said, frowning, “why would they then take it away again?”