{"id":1389,"date":"2009-03-28T06:37:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T11:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2013-01-08T17:19:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:19:05","slug":"mystery-books-covers-part-3-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/mystery-books-covers-part-3-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Books&#8217; Covers&#8230; Part 3 (Final)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This should (finally!)\u00a0finish\u00a0my verbal &#8220;meandering&#8221; regarding the:<br \/>\nDo you think that you can judge a (Cozy Mystery) book by its cover?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bright, Bold Covers<\/strong>: These, as well as the idyllic setting covers, are the types of mystery book covers that most capture my attention. I simply like them, and prefer it when they give us a hint about the type of Cozy Mystery the book is going to be. The artists&#8217; delightful, bright renditions of the mysteries\u00a0reach out and definitely grab my attention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Covers with Photographs<\/strong>: There are also mysteries that show still pictures of a scene. Most of the\u00a0Cozy Mystery books I am familiar with don&#8217;t tend to have photographs on their covers, they usually grace the covers of true crime and harder mysteries. Mysteries with photographed covers\u00a0don&#8217;t capture my attention\u00a0while browsing, but I&#8217;m sure that I have read many of them.<\/p>\n<p>There are probably many other types of book covers out there that are gracing our Cozy Mystery novels. And, as with all things, different people have different tastes. Perhaps the next time\u00a0you are deciding on a new author to start reading, you will notice yourself seeing what role the author\u2019s book covers play in your decision to either read or pass on that author\u2019s novels.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the other two parts of this theme:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/mystery-books-covers-part-1.html\">Mystery Books&#8217; Covers Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/mystery-books-covers-part-2.html\">Mystery Books&#8217; Covers Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should (finally!)\u00a0finish\u00a0my verbal &#8220;meandering&#8221; regarding the: Do you think that you can judge a (Cozy Mystery) book by its cover? Bright, Bold Covers: These, as well as the idyllic setting covers, are the types of mystery book covers that most capture my attention. I simply like them, and prefer it when they give us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-books","8":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-mp","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11855,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/11855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}