Agatha Raisin: Hiss and Hers

By M.C. Beaton

Book Overview

If only the bossy, beloved Agatha Raisin were as lucky at finding the right man as she is at catching killers in M. C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling mystery series Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of everyone's favorite sleuth, M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin is as feisty as ever-armed with her famous wit and biting sense of humor. This time, though, there's some biting of a whole other sort going on. Agatha has fallen head over heels in love-again. This time, she has her eye on the local gardener, George Marston, but so do other women in their little Cotswold village. Shamelessly determined, Agatha will do anything to get her man-including footing the bill for a charity ball just for the chance to dance with him. And then George doesn't even show up. Only partly deterred, Agatha goes looking for him, and finds his dead body in a compost heap. Murder is definitely afoot, but this killer chose no ordinary weapon: A poisonous snake delivered the fatal strike. Rising to the occasion, Agatha rallies her little detective agency to find the killer, only to learn that George had quite a complicated love life. But murderously complicated? Well, if she can't have George, at least Agatha can have the satisfaction of confronting the other women and solving the crime. With Hiss & Hers, once again, "M. C. Beaton has a foolproof plot for the village mystery" (The New York Times Book Review) in the irresistible adventures of the irrepressible Agatha.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312616252
• ISBN13: 9780312616250
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Quaint village fun!

Cute little murder mystery. Agatha Raisin is a hot mess, but she’s self aware and has a good heart (kind of). Her relationships with the other characters are complicated and she’s a very entertaining character. Anyway, this particular one is lots of fun. It was hard to keep the characters straight but I think that’s on me. The narrator clearly put effort into differentiating the voices and it helped a bit. The ending felt a bit drawn out, but I liked it as a whole. :)