Sunday, September 28, 2014

Book Review: M.C. Beaton - The Blood of an Englishman



  
Kim Hammond reviews the latest M.C. Beaton book (for the full review, head over to Criminal Element.)


The Blood of an Englishman by M.C. Beaton is the 25th cozy mystery featuring Agatha Raisin, a P.I. in the rural Cotswolds, who'll face murder amid the tormented world of amateur theatrics. .

Agatha and her crew are back, embroiled in another small-town murder. Mild-mannered Mrs. Bloxby, the vicar’s wife, talks Agatha Raisin into attending a pantomime in neighboring Winter Parva.  It's an amateur play that barely keeps Agatha awake and she can't wait to leave. But shortly after her departure, Bert Simple, the local baker who played an ogre in the pantomime,  is discovered brutally killed. Agatha flies back to the scene to see what's happened and runs into her friend, Detective Sergeant Bill Wong, who is uncharacteristically distant and tells her to go home.


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