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Bonjour, Miss Seeton (Heron Carvic's Miss Seeton)

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The indomitable Miss Seeton escorts several local children from her English village of Plummergen across the channel to conduct a one day tour of WW II battle sites and a local art museum. While in France, Miss Seeton meets an attractive widower, Count Jean-Louis de Balivernes before returning home. Romance seems to be in the air when the Frenchman visits Miss Seeton in her quaint village.

However, the Count's idyllic English visits is disrupted by the discovery of a corpse in the kitchen of one of the eccentric but colorful townsfolk. Amateur detective Miss Seeton, sketch pad and umbrella in hand, begins to investigate the case.

BONJOUR MISS SEETON is an interesting English cozy due to the depth of all the characters. In her latest appearance, Miss Seeton remains the classic stereotype senior citizen cum amateur sleuth that make up this sub-genre. Regardless of whom writes as Hamilton Crane, this remains one of the top who-done-it series on the market today.

Harriet Klausner

Plummergen, that "peaceful" village in Kent where Miss Seeton resides, is currently the center of three exciting activities. One, a local charity group is sponsoring a drive to buy wheelchairs for children, Two, The construction of the channel tunnel is inspiring a visit to France, and Three, Mrs. Blaine and Miss Nuttel (the Nuts) have a visitor. Guess which topic is generating the most discussion?

All seems quiet on the Miss Seeton front, at least, and the book is deceptively crime-free for the first half or more. But murder eventually strikes, and all that peace and quiet is bound to come to a spectacular end. It's enough to put Anglo-French relations back 20 years!

I really enjoy this series. I love Miss Seeton and her crazy neighbors crack me up. Really funny.

Having read some Miss Seeton books years ago, I was pleasantly surprised to find a "new" one although it was obviously by another writer. Little did I realise that it was not in the same style as the ones I had previously read (and enjoyed immensely). It wasn't even amusing or insightful. In fact, it is bloody awful.

After trying for several days and 20-odd pages to try to get into this book, I did a search on the original author and found this on Wiki:
"Sarah J. Mason, writing under the name of Hamilton Crane, then took up the series writing 14 books in all, some of which are still in print. Mason's books modify Carvic's characters so much that only the names will be recognisable to readers of the first five books."

Even if I don't particularly enjoy a book, I generally finish reading it. This one I don't even want to try to finish. Don't bother with this one.

This is one in a series about Miss Seeton, a sweet little old lady who lives in a small English village. She thinks she lives a quiet life, but is inadvertantly involved in several mysteries and crimes, about which she has a somewhat ESP-like quality that is apparent in her drawings. As expected, and as usual, I enjoyed this book.