She met accountant and partner Jasper Crane when she and Toni went to see the disappearing body with Edward. He says he found the body at the edge of the woods, near an ancient stone known as The Lone Warrior and said to have once been used as a sacrificial altar. Granted, her character has changed a bit with the new author, but I can chalk it up to her mellowing and being more comfortable in her own skin.

The next time she sees Bert at the village of Carsely's pub, the Red Lion, where he is with his friends, and has already told them that he saw Agatha without clothes. With the resources she has at her disposal provided by others, she makes short work of what needs to be done.The writing style of Marion has gone altogether and the fast paced action was replaced by pedantic descriptions. The thing that interested me most about the book is how much the main character of Agatha Raisin has changed since the new author took over writing these stories from the late, great Beaton. Then soon after, they find a body in the lake that Agatha suspects might be the same body that Edward found on the Lone Warrior; Agatha and Toni are confident one or more of the naturist society killed the man in the lake. Then there was the swimming at the Naturist society barbecue when we discovered that Agatha learned how to swim the breaststroke without putting her head underwater so that she wouldn't get her hair wet and make it look bad and not mess up her lipstick.

Agatha and her assistant, Toni, are driving to their friend Bill Wong’s long-awaited wedding, thinking of nothing more than what the beautiful bride will be wearing when a terrified young man comes running down the country lane towards them wearing…nothing at all.But Agatha and Toni grow suspicious after meeting some of the club’s members, whose diverse interests range from artisanal ice cream to ancient curses. Toni suggests that since Ulrika leads the role-playing game for the naturist club, she may ask to participate and get a better idea of whether or not Ulrika and her sister killed Antonio. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes.

C. Beaton's imperfect heroine is an absolute gem' Publishers Weekly'[Agatha] is a glorious cross between Miss Marple, Auntie Mame, and Lucille Ball . The plot was slow, not reaching anything much until halfway through the book, and it lacked the characters that we have grown to love, such as Roy coming down from London to help Agatha, adding his mix of youth to Agatha's exasperation, and several of the other usual characters too.First, I am a big fan of the Agatha Raisin TV series so I was predisposed to like these characters and their quirks. After all, we met Giovanni, the Italian choral director, who slept with Agatha and didn't want anything to do with her the next day. I struggled my way through what was one of my favourite authors, despairing how many times the old cases of Agatha Raisin were brought up. There didn’t seem to be a lot of character development, and while the story unfolded with all questions answered, I found it boring at times.

Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong’s long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Despite fans of the television show seeing many differences in the book from age to ethnicity to personality and some characters only found in one or the other, it is unique, must read! At Antonio's, Agatha could talk to Ursula because Antonio is Ursula's husband and a friend of Charles, whom he has meant to visit for a while. The people in this group have normal lives, but they get together as nudist on this particular area of land and they have some strange rituals.

Frankly I don’t think this ever works out very well so fans of the original don’t be too disappointed. When they arrive, the body is gone, left behind is a small wet patch, the only proof a body was ever there.