Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House - M C Beaton

Perhaps I should be reading these books in the right order, but I found this in the library so grabbed it - they are very popular and are rarely found on the shelves! They are very much a series - although satisfying enough on their own. I did get slightly confused though, because between reading this one and the previous one (see below) Agatha has been married (again) and left by her husband, and in this volume a previous lover turned up again - and he'd been married and divorced in the interim too. Hey ho! The love lives of the middle aged! OK, so in this book amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin returns from a spot of PR work in London to find that an elderly woman in a neighbouring Cotswold village has been subjected to a 'haunting' so she and her new neighbour set off to solve the mystery. Shortly after, the old lady ends up dead at the foot of the stairs, and a series of murders are quickly strewn across the countryside. Agatha isn't a very subtle detective and 'blundering upon the truth' sums up her abilities, she's rapidly entangled in two competing (rapidly failing) relationships, and quickly gets put in danger. But its light, its amusing, its entertaining and deserves a 7/10 rating.