Agatha Raisin Audio Book

I listen to audio books from the library at work and on my commute. So, I have to take whichever ones I can get at the time. I have been fortunate enough to get the first 3 books in order, but I just started a new book and it is clearly much later in the Agatha Raisin series. By the end of book 3 Agatha and her next door neighbor James Lacey were friends, sortof. At the beginning of the book I've just started, Case of the Curious Curate, Agatha and her HUSBAND James Lacey are divorced, and he has told her he has gone to join a French monastery (which she finds to be a lie). Without revealing too much about the mysteries that were solved in the books I've missed, how in the world did they come to be dating much less MARRIED! Was it a marriage of convenience or did they have a real romance?

Okay, this is one of those weird things. The whole Raisin-Lacey relationship seems to bounce around much like Agatha's own emotional state. They are friends; they are not. They are "together;" they are not. If I remember, they go on a holiday to Italy, end up married, then get on each other's nerves constantly, then he disappears, then he ends up in the monastery... it's a story with a life of its own within the other stories. I highly recommend finding a bibliography of MC Beaton and "reading" them in order!

After that, you might try her Hamish MacBeth series, which I liked better than the Agatha Raisin series (if you haven't already!) I also highly recommend Martha Grimes's Richard Jury mysteries... but you also need to try and read those in order to avoid getting disoriented.

2006-07-13 11:22:15 by JordanB

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