My Current Interest

                I really do have a hard time resisting a new mystery series.   When I see one that interests me, I always figure, why not give it a shot?   The worst that happens is that if I don’t like it, I return the book to the library earlier than I had planned.   So far, lately, I haven’t found too many mystery series that I’ve tried that I don’t like.   This leads me to juggling a lot of different series at the same time.   Ah, well.   I can handle it.                 My most recent mystery series is the Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries .   Angie Braddock has recently moved to Ohio from Texas because she has inherited her Aunt Eleanor’s Amish quilt shop.   Despite not being Amish herself (Angie is what the Amish would call English), Angie is excited for this business adventure.   She was very close to her aunt, and is heartbroken that she has died.   Angie is also heartbroken that her boyfriend of several years, and eventual fiancé, broke up with her, not long after Eleanor di

Image provided by Acorn TV/RLJE.        For some reason, when I first saw the title Agatha Raisin , I thought I was going to watch a modern-day Miss Marple.   Or else it was going to be a present-day Agatha Christie solving mysteries.   Why I had these ideas in my head, other than the name Agatha, I am not fully sure.   The funny thing is, in many ways, despite this show not being about Miss Marple or Agatha Christie, I wasn’t too far off.   The show does take place in a small village in England where people keep turning up dead.   Then it is up to Agatha Raisin to solve the mystery as to who killed them.   That sounds pretty Miss Marple to me.   Beyond that, though, I don’t think much else is the same.     Image provided by Acorn TV/RLJE.           It has been a lifelong dream of public relations extraordinaire Agatha Raisin (Ashley Jensen) to live in a cottage in the village of Carsley, a place she would visit as a child.   One day, Agatha decides the time has come.

                 I cannot believe how many times I wanted to throw this book.   Not that I would, but I certainly was tempted.   That’s because Jules’s estranged husband Carlos returns to the scene.   In my opinion, that man needs to go.                        Pastry chef Jules Capshaw has been invited to cater an entire weekend retreat for the Shakespeare Festival board.   Excited to have business in the quiet time of winter, Jules is eager to have this opportunity to cater the weekend.   She brings along one of her bakery employees, Sterling, to help, never expecting the weekend to turn into one of murder.                 Not long after Jules and Sterling reach the retreat center, they meet the not-so-friendly bartender, Tony.   A bully and a sleaze, it really should not come as much surprise that Tony is the person to turn up dead.   It does surprise Jules, however, as she is the one who finds him in the ice chest while looking for some missing sausage.   Not sure what to d