I really enjoy Rosenfelt’s cheeky dog-loving lawyer Andy Carpenter, and I like that Kelly’s cats Owen and Hercules have just a touch of magic but not too much.
I’m jealous! It’s not available as an ebook at the three online libraries to which I have access. But I’m planning to nip down to my local library to see if they have a hard copy. I have “Cat Shout for Joy” checked out electronically to read after “Final Catcall.”
That's what I'm going to read next week at the latest; it's already downloaded to my Kindle.
I don't have a Kindle, so I didn't put my email. Wonder if that will still count for
Margret
's contest entry. I haven't read it, but it appears to be book 1 of a trilogy.
I haven't, what's the genre?
I don't have a Kindle, so I didn't put my email. Wonder if that will still count for
It's a subgenre, the Cozy Mystery. Called that because there isn't any foul language (very seldom even a "damn"), no explicit sex (about the most explicit sex you'll see is along the lines of "and then they didn't talk anymore," and no overt gore. People do get murdered, and there are descriptions, but they are mild, not described in minute detail. Cozy. I read books with all of the above, but cozy is a welcome change...mysteries that are plot and character driven.
"Cozy" is a genre of mystery books. There are procedurals, which are heavy on the procedures that cops use to deal with mysteries; there are thrillers, where the viewpoint character is generally running for her life most of the time (or occasionally his life); there are books like the original Sherlock Holmes novels that are primarily about solving the mystery as if it were a puzzle - do we have a specific name for that kind of mystery? - and then there are cozies. The Miss Marple books tend to be cozies. These are books that aren't too heavy on the fear aspect, and where the life experiences and specialized knowledge of the amateur sleuth tend to somehow be paramount in solving the mystery. They're more character driven, I think. A lot of them will center around specific hobbies: beading, or knitting, or baking or some such. When you're reading a cozy you know in advance that the viewpoint character will survive and that it will be a "feel-good" sort of book. To put it in Agatha Christie terms: Miss Marple books are cozies; Hercule Poirot books tend to be all about "the little grey cells," which makes them more along the lines of the Holmes books; and the Tommy and Tuppence books tend to be thrillers. All of them have aspects of the puzzle to them, of course, and there is some overlap - Poirot will sometimes veer into the thriller lane, for instance.
(I clicked on the link, btw)
