I've only read three books since I last posted on here (I think - I feel there's another but I can't for the life of me remember it...), but as they're hardly ground-breakers, I've not felt compelled to blog about them.
Not ground-breakers, but thoroughly enjoyable all the same.
Anybody who has read an MC Beaton book will know what to expect from Agatha Raisin, and The Vicious Vet doesn't fail to deliver. Similarly with Simon Brett's The Fethering Mysteries. Body on the Beach, the second book featuring next door neighbours Carole and Jude, is Fethering by numbers. Having said that, I think I prefer Brett's take on cozy crime to Beaton's. Brett just seems to capture that quintessential Enlishness that Beaton lacks due to such a cynical and "London" protagonist... (although maybe this alters as the books go on, and Agatha spends longer in her Cotswolds village - Vicious Vet is only book two after all).
Perhaps slightly more (okay, no perhaps about it, totally more) ground-breaking is E.T.A Hoffman's Maidemoiselle de Scudery which, come to think of it, deserves its own entry......
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