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Bookmark on DeliciousPublished: Nov. 04, 2009
Words: 69840 (approximate)
Language: English
Description
Geraldine Hough is offered a free week end at a b&b in the snow-covered Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania to keep an eye on a young man. Easy assignment, certainly, then one of the guests is murdered. Gerry comes to believe she knows who killer is, but it takes a ride on a child’s sled in the middle of the night down the side of a mountain to prove her right and for her to apprehend the murderer.Tags
murder mystery, cozy mystery, female sleuths, cozy, bed and breakfast, mystery series, mystery fiction, pocono mountainsAvailable ebook reading formats
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April Follies
on Feb. 01, 2010 :
I recently had the opportunity to pick up and read two "cozy" mysteries. One was from a major publishing house, while the other was "Geraldine Hough's Very First Murder" from Smashwords. Against all conventional wisdom, the online-published book was by far the better of the two!
"Geraldine Hough" presents us with a set of vivid characters, many of whom appear to have surprising depth to them. The titular character, of course, is best drawn. Few male authors, in my experience, do female characters very well; this work is a sparkling exception. Geraldine is very much a person you might imagine meeting for coffee; she "rings true", in contrast to the more common detective protagonists. The secondary characters are also nicely layered, and refreshingly far from stereotypes of all sorts.
The plot is neatly woven; the mystery is neither obvious nor artificially obscured (common flaws in a detective story). Instead, the author presents us with the problem real police have all the time: even in the restricted setting set up by the book, there are many possible suspects - and possibly more than one crime! I won't, of course, spoil it here. Suffice it to say that the novel neatly manages to limit the scope of the mystery to the point where it can be artfully detailed, but does not sacrifice realism in characters or situations.
I would also like to add that the novel is both well-written and well-edited. As someone who often winces at the abuse of the English language in the average novel, that's high praise!
In short, I loved the book, I stayed up late into the night in reading it, and I highly recommend it. I look forward to Ms. Hough's second foray.
(reviewed the day of purchase)