Checking out mystery novels
19 Jan 2015 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneI was in a Miss Marple inspired mood and decided to go digging through a couple of big Cozy Mystery websites for series recommendations and found a few to try out.
Cloche and Dagger by Jenn McKinlay is the first in a series of thematic hat shop mysteries set in London with an American protagonist. I found this a quick and enjoyable read. The prose is readable and unoffensive - somewhat workmanlike but lacking errors or notable irritants as well as stylistic extremes. The information dump passages reminded me so strongly of the writing in The Babysitters' Club series at several points that I actually burst out laughing. Not destined to be a favorite, but I'll cheerfully enough check out the sequel.
I originally put this on Tumblr because I thought my mom, the only mystery reader with whom I regularly converse, was more likely to see it there; but actually she's not that predictable and might just as easily remember this blog exists and forget to check the other.
Cloche and Dagger by Jenn McKinlay is the first in a series of thematic hat shop mysteries set in London with an American protagonist. I found this a quick and enjoyable read. The prose is readable and unoffensive - somewhat workmanlike but lacking errors or notable irritants as well as stylistic extremes. The information dump passages reminded me so strongly of the writing in The Babysitters' Club series at several points that I actually burst out laughing. Not destined to be a favorite, but I'll cheerfully enough check out the sequel.
I originally put this on Tumblr because I thought my mom, the only mystery reader with whom I regularly converse, was more likely to see it there; but actually she's not that predictable and might just as easily remember this blog exists and forget to check the other.
