...by MC Beaton.
A long bank holiday and a need for something not demanding but engaging and fun...this definitely did it.
It feels a lot like one of those British films of the 50s and 60s - a typical English village, sinister happenings under the surface, but lots of light-heartedness and silliness (but in a 1990s style - so in places the language is not what one would find in a 50s film: not as bad as The Holmes Affair by a long shot, but it's there; and some incidents that wouldn't have appeared either - shame - though Agatha is surprisingly old-fashioned conservative in many ways).
Former advertising executive, Agatha Raisin, takes (very) early retirement to her dream house in the Cotswolds. In an effort to do something about the unexpected sense of isolation and boredom, she ends up inadvertently looking like the chief suspect in the murder of the judge of a WI-style quiche competition. The rest of the story is Agatha's attempt to unravel the mystery, to fit in the local community, and the building of a cast of characters (well-drawn too) who, I assume, will turn up in subsequent books.
Good fun.
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