{"id":920,"date":"2009-08-29T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2009-08-30T02:07:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T07:07:45","slug":"win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2009\/08\/29\/win\/","title":{"rendered":"Win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the poor showing of the <a href=\"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2009\/08\/09\/booked-to-die\/\">last mystery series<\/a> I tried featuring someone in the book trade, AND the poor showing of the <a href=\"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/recent-and-less-recent-fail\/\">last series set in New Hampshire<\/a> I was a bit nervous (and yet still excited) to pick up a new book I spotted on the shelf at the library.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Booktown Mystery series, by Lorna Barrett<\/b><br \/>\nIn this series, the author imagines a small town in Southern NH which has decided to remake itself as the local Hay-on-Wye. Stoneham, NH is a fictional place (if only it weren&#8217;t) which seems to be located near Brookline and Mason, a bit west of Nashua.  Unlike the Josie Prescott novels, this author seems to have done more homework in properly portraying the size of populations involved, and though I was alert through the whole first book for egregious errors, nothing really leapt out at me.  The protaganist, Tricia Miles, the owner of a mystery book store in Stoneham, is considerably more likable than Cliff Janeway, and there&#8217;s an interesting set of supporting characters who also get some actual development.  The weak point was the mystery itself, which literally involved an evil twin and a few highly questionable bits where a previously normal character was somehow sensed to be creepy and unstable then subsequently became so.  Even with that, though, it was good enough to keep going with the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the poor showing of the last mystery series I tried featuring someone in the book trade, AND the poor showing of the last series set in New Hampshire I was a bit nervous (and yet still excited) to pick up a new book I spotted on the shelf at the library. The Booktown Mystery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}