Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye

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Kissing Christmas Goodbye was adapted for the currently ongoing Agatha Raisin TV series (2016-) on Acorn TV. Considering it’s hailed as “sharp, witty, hugely intelligent [and] unfailingly entertaining” I expected a whole lot more.

As if she has a formula and replaced each circumstance, adjective and character to be an opposite to Hamish. The detective work has fallen by the wayside and been replaced by an occasionally funny but always enjoyable show. This year she is sure that if she invites James to a really splendid, old-fashioned Christmas dinner, their love will rekindle like a warm Yule log. Only in the very last chapter do we have an early Christmas party, and it all falls very flat and isn’t festive.She divides her time between the Cotswolds, where she lives in a village very much like Agatha's beloved Carsely, and Paris. Despite being told by Bill Wong to keep away, Agatha started to investigate in her own brash manner. Agatha Raisin has always wanted to have a traditional Christmas with a proper Christmas tree, turkey and plum pudding and especially snow on Christmas day. I was much more engaged in the story given I had the context of the characters and setting after watching the first three seasons of the show. I actually like the more 'real' subjects she touches upon, but she pushes these tough subjects back into the cozy realm.

Agatha Raisin is sharp, witty, hugely intelligent, unfailingly entertaining, delightfully intolerant and oh so magnificently non PC. I love all the re-occurring characters like Charles and Bill and Mrs Bloxey who are in each book and have been developed over 15+ books to where you know exactly what to expect. Eager to soak up every ounce of drama, Agatha puts everyone in the village under a microscope, including the victim’s own children.Even the murder of a Mrs Tamworthy, poisoned with hemlock, does little to distract her and yet it should, as Mrs Tamworthy had written to Agatha, telling her that one of her family wanted to see her dead before the year was out. I love Ashley Jensen's Agatha and can't wait to watch the episode of Kissing Christmas Goodbye tonight! On a trip from the States to Sutherland on holiday, a course at a fishing school inspired the first Constable Hamish Macbeth story. However, when she receives a letter from an old lady begging for protection, Agatha can’t help but spring into action. I enjoyed this well written and well plotted mystery with its believable characters and amusing dialogue and incidents.

Known as the “Queen of Crime” (The Globe and Mail), she was born in Scotland and started her career writing historical romances under several pseudonyms as well as her maiden name, Marion Chesney. The case is solved of course and the epilogue finds Agatha hosting a big Christmas feast for everyone which is more of a success than the disastrous Christmas dinner that ended the previous book.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Her detective agency in the Cotswolds is thriving, but she’ll scream if she has to deal with another missing cat or dog. In the same vein as Hamish Macbeth, M C Beaton gets away with it because you, as a reader, become fond of the characters and so when another book is churned out, you instinctively hope that maybe something good has at long last happened to the main character and so your loyalty hasn't been in vain, unfortunately as with Hamish Macbeth this never happens and you get to the end of another book saddened that you cannot get that time you have just invested, back again. Agatha hopes to have the best Christmas dinner party ever, and in a way she does, but so many unexpected things happen.