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Apr 21, 2015zipread rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Hiss and Hers --- by --- M.C. Beaton. This novel really is quite arithmetic: it really adds up because it has adders in it. (Pun intended) The little critters slither about in “Hiss and Hers” (pun also probably intended) and even figure as murder weapons. Lead character Agatha Raisin who runs a detective agency in a Cotswold village investigates the murder of the village’s gardener; a fetchingly handsome man with a military background who, it has been suggesting, has been ministering to the village’s spinsters and widows as well as their posies. By the novel’s end, Agatha herself almost succumbs to the same homicidal attentions that did in the poor gardener. As usual, Beaton’s novel moves along at a snappy pace. There’s nary time for lengthy narration: the dialogue keeps the plot moseying along. A great deal of the fun in reading Beaton’s novels lies in the fact that, just when you figured out who did it and where and why, Beaton pulls a fast one on you and hurries your suspicions in the other direction. The plot twists and turn and slithers along sort of like an adder. Great sport.