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(2016)

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Hell's Bells
Prismark1021 June 2016
Hell's Bells starts off with bad bell ringing as a new recruit, Amanda Ballard has difficulty getting hang of the ropes so to speak. When Amanda is later found hanged in the belfry with a suicide note, Agatha investigates as she is not convinced that she killed herself.

Amanda seemed to have had a close relationship with the vicar, his wife was rather jealous and the vicar is acting rather suspiciously especially as the bishop wants to investigate the church's accounts.

A stronger episode than the previous week's instalment but parts of it were still shoddy. The actor playing the vicar was competing with Jamie Glover for the most wooden acting award. The alleged comedy bit when Matthew Horne and Katy Wix were interrogating Amanda's ex-husband while Agatha fed them information via an earpiece was excruciating.
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5/10
Pretty sure they will be no season two
pensman11 August 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Is it possible that Amanda Barton was having an affair with the vicar Jez Bloxby as Sarah Bloxby suspects? Amanda says no, that would be a sin. But then Amanda is found dead; hung in the bell tower; it looks like a suicide but not to Agatha. Women don't buy new saddles for their horse and then kill themselves. Once again Agatha presses Roy into service. And what if anything does Steph know; she lives in a caravan on Amanda's estate and claims to have been Amanda's best friend. And surprise, Amanda's supposedly dead husband is alive and claims no one in the village of Carsley actually knew what the real Amanda was like.

Is it possible Jez is stealing from the church and is selling off church land? Before we can find out Roy returns and suggests Agatha do a murder board. Is it possible Jez killed Amanda because he knew her when they were both children? And Amanda knew Jez's parents were war criminals.

Agatha solves this one in rather dramatic fashion but for a series that describes itself as a comedy/mystery, I have yet to see comedy.
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