Having watched two episodes of the TV series a while ago, I had some knowledge of Agatha, so figured shouldn't be too difficult jumping in this deep into the series.

I had no idea who James was (entirely possible that I once knew and forgot), but it really was hard to find anything about him that was likeable. So was kind of unclear why Agatha was exerting so much jealousy and effort into him.

Ack, still apart from the romance elements, which often seemed a little high schoolish, the detective work was fine.

I don't know if I'll try and pick up another in the series though...