M.C. Beaton’s Christmas Crumble … a Christmas tale that’s holly, jolly—and deadly, by golly…
At home alone for the holidays, Agatha Raisin decides to host a dinner party for the elder residents in her Cotswold village of Winter Parva. Agatha’s never been much of a homemaker, but she’s dead-set on making this the perfect holiday for the “crumblies,” as she affectionately calls them. She’s decorated a tree while fending off her cats Hodge and Boswell, and even made a (lumpy) Christmas pudding in between swigs of rum. But when Agatha dumps the pudding on the head of the local self-proclaimed lothario—an eighty-five year old with a beer belly and fingers like sausages—his death by dessert proves more than a trifle as mysteries mount higher than the season’s snowfall. So much for trying to do good by her neighbors. Now Agatha needs no less than a Christmas miracle to get herself out of this one…
Deck the halls with boughs of folly this Christmas with Agatha Raisin, a modern-day Miss Marple, who Publishers Weekly calls “an absolute gem!”
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Summary
Overall This novella showcases Agatha Raisin, the complex and difficult heroine of a series ofcozy mysteries set in the Cotswolds. As always, Agatha is her
own worst enemy this time, she's gotten herself on the suspect list for a murder... a murder committed with a Christmas pudding! Well written, with a challenging plot and
three dimensional characters, this is a great read for a winter's evening.
Drug & Alcohol A character is identified as having a drinking problem.