{"id":110,"date":"2007-08-22T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/read-some-good-books-tried-unsuccessfully-to-enjoy-new-author.html"},"modified":"2007-08-22T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T20:04:00","slug":"read-some-good-books-tried-unsuccessfully-to-enjoy-new-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/read-some-good-books-tried-unsuccessfully-to-enjoy-new-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Emily D. Seeton… (With a Title Like That, Could She be Anything But Cozy?!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many things\u00a0as I tried to cram into this last month of travel and (very successful) surgery, I did manage to try two new authors, and of course, read some of my “tried and true” novelists.<\/p>\n

I won’t even go into how much I loved The Good Husband of Zebra Drive<\/strong> (by Alexander McCall Smith<\/a>)… since I have spent a lot of time blogging on (and on!) about how much I love Smith’s novels. (But, of course, I would have found myself remiss if I hadn’t at least put that little bit of information into this blog….)<\/p>\n

I tried two new authors…\u00a0Heron Carvic was one of them. (Heron Carvic was the originator of the Miss Emily D. Seeton<\/a> novels.) I read Picture\u00a0Miss Seeton<\/strong> (which, if you know about how I feel at the beginning of a series, you know that it has got to be the first book!) and I found the book to be a very enjoyable read.\u00a0I came away with a good feeling of character development for Miss Seeton. I was left thinking… now this is a cozy mystery character I will enjoy revisiting in the future<\/strong>. And, since there are so many books in the series, I should have plenty of time to get to know her better.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the interaction between the Superintendent of Scotland Yard and Miss Seeton, and found it to be very believable. I have found that in several cozy mystery\u00a0series, the interaction between the police and the always-better-at-solving-crime amateur sleuth can be really\u00a0annoying… Some authors portray\u00a0the police as bumbling idiots standing on the side-lines, jealous of the amateur sleuth, and always warning the amateur to get off of the case…. because let’s face it, if the bumblers can’t solve the crime, they would rather that the culprit gets off free, leaving the case unsolved… And, since there are more than enough cozy mystery series to read (as this site’s lists should show!), I don’t stay with a series like that for long! I usually try to give the author a few attempts at redemption, but, you know what they say about three strikes!\u00a0 And a lot of the time, it’s just the one strike that makes me put a book down as a “YUCK” on my private list!<\/p>\n

I don’t want to say too much about the novel, since I don’t want to give away the plot by writing\u00a0unintended spoilers…\u00a0 Let me just say this… Since I have only read the first novel in the series, I don’t actually know if Miss Seeton will remain in this lovely little village…. I am hoping that the following books\u00a0stay in this same quaint cozy setting, with all of the\u00a0cozy mystery inhabitants (some more eccentric than others!)\u00a0the characters, plotline, and setting left me with a feeling of “going home.”<\/p>\n

This particular Miss Seeton novel had all of the cozy mystery requirements… and, of course, it didn’t hurt that there is a little promise of romance for future books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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