Heather F. (AZmom875) -
Helpful Score: 1
I wasnt impressed with book 2, therefore waited more than a year to read book 3. I now wish I had plowed on, cause book 3 was a well done cozy mystery.
I think there are a few common elements in a cozy that need to come together: the gimmick, setting, interesting characters, and the police mentality, and the mystery.
The gimmick: the hobby or skill or job that the characters have in common that moves the mystery along, and helps them with the clues. In this case it is knitting. I like my gimmicks to be interesting and even informative, which is what I liked most about this series in book 1 and book 3.
Our character were much more distinguished and likeable in this book, and they leave their usual setting and head 2 hours out to a Spa. It was a good setting. There was a good balance of introducing the ideals about a spa too.
Police mentality can go many ways, You can have the local police being hostile, corrupt, bumbling, needy, abrupt and business like, or ones who confide too much info about the crime. Often the main female sleuth is dating the police investigator and that gets old. That is not the case in this book as they are out of town, and the police are just efficient nice men, who listen to what our knitting gals have to say.
The mystery in this one had a good balance not too confusing, enough suspects, and our women help solve it with their knitting clues.
This book was so good and I read it in a few hours, as I wanted to get to the the ending. I am off to read book 4 next, as I had it in my To be Read Pile. I hope it is just as good.
I think there are a few common elements in a cozy that need to come together: the gimmick, setting, interesting characters, and the police mentality, and the mystery.
The gimmick: the hobby or skill or job that the characters have in common that moves the mystery along, and helps them with the clues. In this case it is knitting. I like my gimmicks to be interesting and even informative, which is what I liked most about this series in book 1 and book 3.
Our character were much more distinguished and likeable in this book, and they leave their usual setting and head 2 hours out to a Spa. It was a good setting. There was a good balance of introducing the ideals about a spa too.
Police mentality can go many ways, You can have the local police being hostile, corrupt, bumbling, needy, abrupt and business like, or ones who confide too much info about the crime. Often the main female sleuth is dating the police investigator and that gets old. That is not the case in this book as they are out of town, and the police are just efficient nice men, who listen to what our knitting gals have to say.
The mystery in this one had a good balance not too confusing, enough suspects, and our women help solve it with their knitting clues.
This book was so good and I read it in a few hours, as I wanted to get to the the ending. I am off to read book 4 next, as I had it in my To be Read Pile. I hope it is just as good.
