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Love, Lies And Liquor
Agatha hooks up again with James, they fight, he splits, she sulks. Oh, yeah, a couple people get murdered, including a would-be rival for Jamesssss affections. Very cute Snot-On-Sea snowball book jacket, with sparklies!! EDIT AUTHORS NAME
Smoke Quote : Sunbeams were the enemy of smokers, thought Agatha, highlighting hust how much of the poisonous stuff you were sending out into the surrounding air.
Read : 11/2006
There Goes The Bride
James is getting married, but his fiancee is found shot to death just before the ceremony. This is almost a sub-plot to Agatha's continuing series of romances and encounters with a killer.
Words I Had To Look Up : Dessert was that Cotswold favourite--icky-sticky pudding (pg. 235) -- Seems to be a cake-like dessert with a toffee sauce.
Read : 8/2011
Ancestral Night
White Space book 1. Haimy Dz is a partner on a space salvage tug. Good story!
Read : 4/2019
Blood Music
A wonderful book. Gave me the same feeling as Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.
Read : 6/1998
City At The End Of Time
A big story, full of cats and books and mysterious peoples doing mysterious stuff. And you gotta love a book that starts out with a Firesign Theatre quote!
Read : 11/2008
Darwin's Children
I found this sequel a real page-turner. I always forget to check for a glossory, and there it is at the end!
Read : 10/2003
Darwin's Radio
Made my head hurt, all that biology! Very interesting story, reminded a little of Childhood's End by Clarke.
Read : 7/2002
Dinosaur Summer
Teenage Peter travels to the "Lost World" of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a expedition to return Circus dinosaurs to their natural habitat.
QUOTE : "Makes you hate nature, doesn't it?" he said in disgust--pg.254
Read : 3/2003
Foundation And Chaos
Part of a trilogy based on the books by Isaac Asimov. Pretty good!
Read : 7/1998
Quantico
Techno-thriller. FBI agents search for bio-terrorists.
Read : 5/2007
Vitals
Scientist searches for life extension, uncovers big plot. Pretty good. Explains all those hang up phone calls we get, too.
Read : 4/2002
A Highland Christmas
A missing cat, a lonely girl, and stolen Christmas lights make Hamish Macbeth's holiday. .
Read : 8/2000
Agatha Raisin And The Love From Hell
Agatha is married to James, but the marriage is rocky. James girlfriend/psycho Melissa is murdered and James disappears.
Read : 4/2003
Agatha Raisin And The Murderous Marriage
Agatha is about to marry James next door, when her FIRST husband turns up...for a while.
QUOTE : The rendering of "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" was, Agatha reflected sourly, music to stun pigs by.
Read : 6/2000
Agatha Raisin And The Quiche Of Death
Agatha moves to the country after retirement, enters a quiche in a local contest, and the judge dies!!! .
Read : 6/2000
Agatha Raisin And The Terrible Tourist
Agatha goes to Cyprus hoping to reconcile with James after their aborted marriage, but of course someone dies!
QUOTE : [James says] "What a blabby little thing you are, dear. Why didn't you give him your knicker size when you were at it?"
Read : 7/2000
Agatha Raisin and the vicious vet
Agatha has her usual romantic ups-and-downs, including with a veternarian who hates cats and ends up dying.
Read : 7/2005
Agatha Raisin And The Walkers Of Dembley
Agatha and James inflitrate a walking club to get clues about one of its members that was murdered. Enjoyable.
Read : 7/2000
Agatha Raisin And The Witch Of Wyckhadden
Agatha goes to the seaside to forget her romantic problems, gets engaged, gets unengaged, finds a body, but not in that order.
SMOKE QUOTE : So on this windy day, two days after her arrival, she walked charging along a deserted promenande, ... wondering how soon she could find a sheltered spot to enjoy a cigarette and get some of the excess of oxygen out of her lungs. --pg.2.
Read : 4/2003
Agatha Raisin And The Wizard Of Evesham
Agatha goes to get her hair done, and of course someone dies!
SMOKE QUOTE : "Give me a cigarette." "You don't smoke." "I only smoke other people's. It's a charitable gesture. It reduces their intake."
Read : 7/2000
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