The Witches' Tree

An Agatha Raisin Mystery

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Molly hunched over the steering wheel. A breeze started to move the fog, which danced in swaying pillars in front of her headlights, somehow even more difficult to drive through than the previous thick fog. As she approached the village, through the shifting fog, she saw the lightning-blasted limbs of the witches' tree....

Driving home from a dinner party in the village of Sumpton Harcourt, Rory and Molly Harris, the new vicar and his wife, strain to see the road ahead - and then suddenly brake, screeching to a halt. Right in front of them, aglow in the headlights, a body hangs from a gnarled tree at the edge of town. An elderly spinster has been murdered - and the villagers are bewildered as to who would commit such a crime.

Agatha Raisin rises to the occasion (a little glad for the excitement, to tell the truth, after a long run of lost cats and divorces on the books). But when two more murders follow the first, Agatha begins to fear for her reputation - and even her life. The village is a small and very private place, she finds. It even has its own coven of witches....

©2017 M. C. Beaton (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Good story bad narrator

I really found this narrator dreadfully boring. It was difficult to tell the. Characters apart. It just made it dull.

I don't know why I am hooked on these books.

these books are easy listening and don't take much effort to listen. agatha comes up with some reasoning at the end, her life in jeopardy and case gets solved. I am listening in order due to character development. cant waIt to finally get back to listening Penelope Keith narrate.

Story

Unfortunately the voicing seemed forced. Distracting the listener from the story. The accents were over done and grating.

Love the narrator

Great story and a really good narrator. Don’t be put off by other people’s complaints. Try it for yourself. This narrator makes Agatha sound less like a harridan and I much prefer this “new” Agatha.

What Happened?

I love Agatha Raisin audiobooks. Especially when Penelope Keith narrates them. There is no humor in this book and there is a lot of nastiness between the characters. It’s hard to distinguish the characters because they all sound about the same. There needs to be a more animated narrator. Like Penelope Keith.

I thought Mrs Bloxbys name was Margaret and now it’s Sara.