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Title: Site Unseen : An Emma Fielding Mystery by Dana Cameron ISBN: 0-380-81954-6 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Archaeology, academia and murder
Comment: 1st book in the Emma Fielding series, featuring female archaeologist turned amateur sleuth in New England
During an archaeological dig in Maine, archaeologist and professor Em encounters a thoroughly unpleasant man. After two murders, Em finds herself trying to clear her own name by finding out who was responsible. She's also worried about the effect the case may have when her position comes up for tenure at work. An above average amateur sleuth mystery with an engaging heroine who has both good and bad points in her personality, some other well portrayed characters, a twisty but satisfying plot, and a plausible device for having the character investigating murder.
Rating: 5
Summary: New Entry into the Archeology type of Mystery
Comment: Emma Fielding is trying to find the site of Fort Providence. The Fort is the first known English settlement in the United States, predating Jamestown by a few years. By good chance the likely site is on the property of her old friend Pauline Westbrook who gives her blessing to the dig. Shortly after arrival Emma finds a body on the beach and is threatened by a pothunter with a gun. Strangely, a senior colleague with no interest in New England archeology stops by to examine the site. Worst of all, Pauline's house burns down with her in it. She had just changed her will to benefit Emma, so now she is a suspect. There are also alot of strange things going on in the anthropology department at her college. Emma has to get to the bottom of things, hopefully without adding her own corpse to the body count.
This is a very quick moving mystery. The author takes the reader into the world and work of the archeologist. She goes into just enough detail for illustration and not so much that you are bored. The characters are very vivid and there is alot of action. It wasn't too difficult to solve the mystery, she leaves alot of clues, but it is alot of fun getting to the solution.
Rating: 3
Summary: stiff .... and I'm not talking about the bodies
Comment: Briliant, dedicated and driving me away from this author. This book was boring and was written in such a stiff manner that I nearly cried. The reviews led me to believe that this book was entertaining and wonderfully written. I have never read a fictional book about archeologist/detectives that was this humorless and this dull.
Ms. Cameron ... I suggest that you read Elizabeth Peters (her earlier ones) or Beverly Connor (who has an anthropology/archeology twist) to see how to combine archeology and murder into an enjoyable read. It did not have to be funny but at least it should have been interesting.
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Title: Grave Consequences : An Emma Fielding Mystery by Dana Cameron ISBN: 0380819554 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Past Malice : An Emma Fielding Mystery by Dana Cameron ISBN: 0380819562 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: One Grave Too Many by Beverly Connor ISBN: 0451411196 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Rumor of Bones by Beverly Connor ISBN: 1581821999 Publisher: Cumberland House Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Airtight Case: A Lindsay Chamberlain Novel by Beverly Connor ISBN: 1581822952 Publisher: Cumberland House Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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