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Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime
Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime | Leonie Swann
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This highly anticipated follow-up to The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp finds Agnes and her octogenarian friends face-to-face with a killer after winning a trip to a beautiful hotel in the seaside town of Cornwall The year is rapidly drawing to an end, Hettie the tortoise is hibernating and Agnes, Charlie, Marshall, and the other elderly residents of Sunset Hall are going stir-crazy at home. Theyve had enough of the broken boiler, draughty bedrooms, and Christmas jingles on the radio. And to top it all off, another series of murders is rocking the hamlet of Duck End. It seems like every villager and his dog is trying to make up for all of the thwarted murders of the past thirty years. Most unpleasant! The residents of Sunset Hall dont want anything to do with the criminal activities. So when Edwina manages to slip onto Marshalls computer in an unobserved moment and promptly wins a stay in an exclusive coastal hotel in Cornwall, the Sunset Hall crew doesnt waste any time in deciding to join her. After all, Edwina cant be left unsupervised. But theyve barely unpacked their bags when Agnes sees something unsettling from the terrace of the hotel: two figures in hoods walk away from the hotel along the cliffs, but only one returns. Worried shes witnessed a murder, Agnes tells the others. At first nobody really believes her, after all the crew have enough to do working their way through the incredible menu, exploring the hotels wellness-landscape, navigating old and new love affairs and adopting a boa constrictor. But when the hotel ends up isolated from the outside world after a storm, it becomes clear that a murderer really is on the looseand theyre trapped, just like all of the other guests!
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CaitlinR
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Mehso-so

I enjoyed “The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharpe”, unfortunately this new title in the series falls a bit flat. The genuine warmth and humor of the earlier title feels contrived and strained.

The Sunset Hall boiler is on the fritz. Amazingly Edwina has won a trip to a luxury hotel, so they decamp seeking warmth. Unfortunately, murder is afoot: guests dropping like flies. The gang, with the help of a white boa constrictor, investigates.