Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin, #2)

by M.C. Beaton

This title is second in the highly popular "Agatha Raisin" murder mystery series. The highly irrepressible Agatha feels sure the attractive new village vet has taken a shine to her, yet before romance can blossom, Dr Bladen accidentally kills himself in an unfortunate incident involving a horse and a needle. Ah well, his death serves as an excuse for her to become chummier with her neighbour James Lacey as once more they are thrown together in an amateur murder investigation...

• ISBN10: 184529081X
• ISBN13: 9781845290818
• Publish Date: 17 June 2004 (first published 1 August 1993)
• Publish Status: Transferred
• Out of Print: 20 March 2010
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Robinson Publishing
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 224
• Language: English

Reviews

[Mystereity Reviews]

Not as good as the first book. I would've given this 4 stars but the whole bumbling romance part of the plot really put me off. I think it's because she went from being an assertive, confident woman in the first book to slowly sliding down the maudlin damsel-in-distress stereotype that I despise. Overall, the plot wasn't that well-rounded either. The whodunit took a back seat to all of Agatha's mooning, and I couldn't keep the suspects straight. The plot resolution was not so much solved as explained by the killer.

A fun read, but I don't see the series going anywhere. This will probably be the last book I read from this series.

[wyvernfriend]

Second in the Agatha Raisin series. Agatha and many other women fancy the local vet so when he turns up dead there are a lot of suspects. Agatha is somewhat modern Miss Marple that somehow just doesn't ring all that true. Not my favourite detective series but not the worst either.