- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 2049 KB
- Print Length: 259 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books (Oct. 2 2018)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B079DVPMGB
Book Description
The church of St. Ethelred in the village of Thirk Magna is renowned for its team of bell-ringers, the troupe led by identical twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin. Mavis and Millicent are lifelong residents of the remote village—or were, until their home is broken into one night, and Millicent is murdered. But who’s the killer? Is it one of their co-workers, sick of being bullied to practice for a big performance? Or perhaps Joseph Kennell, a retired lawyer who was heard yelling at the sisters that he felt like strangling them? Kennell swears his innocence, and hires the ever-trusty (if often tipsy) Agatha Raisin to clear his name. Only she can find the killer—and hopefully a handsome man to buy her dinner while she’s at it.
About the Author
Learn more on her website!
Watch a video of Marion discussing the casting of the AGATHA RAISIN Christmas special
Marion Chesney Gibbons
aka: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Marion Chesney, Charlotte Ward, Sarah Chester.
Marion Chesney was born on 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any shorthand or typing, but quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter. After marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion went to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.
Anxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion, urged by her husband, started to write historical romances in 1977. After she had written over 100 of them under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, and under the pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester, she getting fed up with 1714 to 1910, she began to write detectives stories in 1985 under the pseudonym of M. C. Beaton. On a trip from the States to Sutherland on holiday, a course at a fishing school inspired the first Constable Hamish Macbeth story. They returned to Britain and bought a croft house and croft in Sutherland where Harry reared a flock of black sheep. But Charles was at school, in London so when he finished and both tired of the long commute to the north of Scotland, they moved to the Cotswolds where Agatha Raisin was created.
My Review
The Dead Ringer is the 29th book in the Agatha Raisin series. It is the 29th book that I have read in this series. I adore Agatha Raisin. She is one of a kind!
I think that you could read The Dead Ringer as a stand alone for entertainment value alone. However, to really understand the fun that is Agatha, you really need to read the entire series.
Set in the gorgeous Cotswolds, in the English countryside, the Agatha Raisin series brings village life to the readers. While all seems calm and beautiful in these villages, there are always secrets and grudges underneath the surface. Agatha always rips these bucolic scenes apart and shows the realities of people's hearts.
Oh and of course you know Agatha will fall in love. Always inappropriately. Always a big mistake. But she cannot help herself.
Charles and the rest of the gang are all back. And we visit the lovely village of Thirk Magna...which is bubbling over with secrets.
I highly recommend The Dead Ringer and I cannot wait for the next book in the series.
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