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Mar 26, 2015zipread rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Something Borrowed, Something Blue --- by --- M. C. Beaton. One might be forgiven for thinking that MC set this novel sometime in the sepiad past when the world was much simpler, much kinder. But then she jerks us into the present: there are cell, er, mobile phones, gin and tonics, and fast cars. The main protagonist in this Agatha Raisin Mystery is, as you might surmise, Agatha Raisin, a private investigator in a small Cotswolds town where she regularly out-sleuths the local police force to solve the most peculiar of crimes that can only be described as being in the most time-honoured traditions of English skullduggery: murder by poisoning with doped elderberry cordial. Who did it? The vicar perhaps? Ancient Mrs Tripp who always corralled people to read to her and who then promptly fell asleep? Or maybe it was the odd Mr. Sumner who always took long walks in the woods? There are plenty of suspects in this tale of intrigue that has more twists and turns than a corniche in Monaco. A novel, alack too brief, yet thoroughly enjoyable.