A review by rebeccasreadingrambles
Busy Body by M.C. Beaton

4.0

Sometimes you just need a dose of over-the-top Ms Agatha Raisin. This is a series I love coming back to, and I know I can jump in and read any book in the series and still love it. I also enjoy how different life is for Agatha Raisin and the start and end of this series. She has gone from PR snoop to a professional detective with employees (and still such a snoop). Her propensity to quickly fall in and out of love with men and be easily insulted never does change, which endears her to me even more.
In this installment, an obnoxious outsider who is determined to ruin everyone's fun has been murdered and not many people are upset. Agatha herself goes through stages of nonchalance about finding the murder, but also wants to be the one who solves it all and makes a new appearance. I really enjoyed getting to know the side characters more in the story. This storyline kind of bumbles every which way for a while; enough so that I had absolutely no idea who the real murderer was by the end. It could be anyone and no-one and I think the author did a marvelous job of keeping us confused. I liked the ending very much (all in very typical Agatha style) and I can't wait to read more in this cozy series.