Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley [Paperback]

M. C. Beaton (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: St. Martin's (1994)
• ASIN: B000VAP7E8
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

More About the Author

M.C. BEATON has won international acclaim for her bestselling Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin mysteries. She is also the author of over 100 romance titles and a series of romantic suspense, The Edwardian Mystery Series. M. C. Beaton lives in a Cotswold cottage with her husband.

Marion is active on Facebook using her most popular pen name, M.C. Beaton. You can find complete book lists, information on events, and sign up for news updates at her website, www.MCBeaton.com.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just barely 4 stars..., April 9, 2004

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Louis M. Perdue (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 4) (Mass Market Paperback)

I enjoyed this fourth book in the Agatha Raisin series but while reading it, I had a vague feeling of disquiet. It took me a while to figure out what was bothering me and I finally realized that Agatha, in this book, had resorted to namecalling in her insults and some of those names are quite vicious. She has in all the books been quite tart with others but in this one, she is downright vicious.
The leader of a rambling group (a group of people who get together to walk & enjoy the country) from a nearby village is murdered. A friend's niece is one of the suspects and she asks Agatha to investigate. Agatha, naturally, agrees to do so and she & James go undercover as a married couple in the nearby village.
The suspects are plenty and none of them are likeable. Not even any of the secondary characters are that nice.
I would hesitate to pick up the next book in the series if it were not for the cliffhanger ending of this one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Read Agatha Raisin, but dont start with this book, April 13, 2005

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clifford "akitonmyers" (Portland, OR, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 4) (Mass Market Paperback)

I love Agatha Raisin. M.C. Beaton has created one of the finest character studies of small provincial towns I have come across. I've found myself laughing aloud several times with each book that I pick up and I bless Beaton for that.

In her previous three stories, the mysteries have stood second stage to Raisin's interactions with people in the town. And that was just fine. But here it seems that Beaton is attempting to turn Raisin into a bumbling Mrs. Marple alluded to in every story. But it doesn't work. Beaton just can't set up a mystery on par with Christy and in her efforts to do so, Beaton sacrifices much of what was so enduring about her first three Raisin stories.

I did not especially like this book though I plan on reading more Raisin novels in the hopes that Beaton once again captures the magic of her past triumphs.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AGATHA IS GREAT!!!!, March 16, 2001

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Mac Blair "Mac Blair" (Huntingdon, TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 4) (Mass Market Paperback)

AS usual I enjoyed another Agatha Raisin doing her thing. Her thing this time also gets her really involved with James Lacey. Agatha has returned to Cotswold village after six months in London. She is not back long before someone murders one of the walkers of dembley, a group that gets together and walks on the weekend. They follow old trails that have since been planted in crops. The farmers, of course, do not like this as it destroys their fields. After one is killed, another is killed. Who could be doing this? One of the walkers, one of the farmers, a lover? Agatha and Lacey keep asking questions until they figure it our. Or do they? I can see the village and the people in my mind as I read. Beaton does an excellent job if you will just let yourself go and feel the writing.