Agatha Raisin: Devil's Delight: the latest cosy crime novel from the bestselling author

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The writing style of Marion has gone altogether and the fast paced action was replaced by pedantic descriptions. Then there was the swimming at the Naturist society barbecue when we discovered that Agatha learned how to swim the breaststroke without putting her head underwater so that she wouldn't get her hair wet and make it look bad and not mess up her lipstick. It is hard to believe that this is number 33 in the series and I had never heard of this particular series until stumbling across this one. The people in this group have normal lives, but they get together as nudist on this particular area of land and they have some strange rituals.

I binged all of them and in that time of turmoil they provided the comfort of regular visits to the stable and virtually unchanging environments of the Scottish Highlands or the English Cotswalds. Toni suggests that since Ulrika leads the role-playing game for the naturist club, she may ask to participate and get a better idea of whether or not Ulrika and her sister killed Antonio.Agatha remembers that her good friend and ex lover Sir Charles Fraith owns the land that the nudist camp is on. Then before she knows it, she says she will go with him to a barbecue of the Mircester Naturist Society without any clothes! 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. The mysteries are rambling and convoluted, Agatha’s love life is complicated, and there are an abundance of over-the-top moments that require suspension of disbelief. C. Beaton (1936-2019) was the author of both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, as well as numerous Regency romances.

Audio “Delight” I picked up the audio version of Devil’s Delight thrilled to discover that my favorite actress, Dame Penelope Keith, once again is the narrator enriching my listening pleasure.Agatha and Toni are on the way to a wedding when they are stopped by a naked man who says he's just found a dead body. The plot was slow, not reaching anything much until halfway through the book, and it lacked the characters that we have grown to love, such as Roy coming down from London to help Agatha, adding his mix of youth to Agatha's exasperation, and several of the other usual characters too.

There didn’t seem to be a lot of character development, and while the story unfolded with all questions answered, I found it boring at times.I know thousands will have bought this book because of the familiarity that Marion created with her characters, but R W Green has taken them on a different course, and this one I do not like, not at all. Really the only downside here was that the villains were made to be quite obvious even from their first appearances, so there was no really mystery to the solution. When Toni and Agatha stop to see what this man could want, Edward Carstairs explains that he is the social convenor for the Mircester Naturist Society, a group of people who enjoy each other's company while naked.

She met accountant and partner Jasper Crane when she and Toni went to see the disappearing body with Edward. I took a star off for the conclusion because the only thing that disappointed me was the ending, as I found it unrealistic. Although the author has passed on, her friend and fellow author R W Green does a good job of sticking to the format and characters.The main case involves a disappearing body at the site of a naturist camp (UK speak for nudists) which of course provides for teasing humour throughout.