Review: Lord James Harrington and the Spring Mystery by Lynn Florkiewicz
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2013
I read the reviews, and I downloaded the free sample, and then purchased and read it. I noted that other reviewers complained about poor formatting, and editing. I didn't see much of that at all. The only two errors that come to mind are gentile instead of genteel, or gentle, with genteel being the most likely as I'm not aware that the English spell it differently than we do, and I don't think it was French. Scarlett (as in O'Hara) was consistently spelled Scarlet, which is not accurate.I did notice that a couple of times when I moved the cursor to look up a word in the dictionary, that several cursors remained in place, and when I came back from the dictionary, part of the page was black. This happened twice, near the end, and turning back one page and then forward to the page I was on fixed it both times. The chapters are navigable with the 5-way. All-in-all, the formatting/editing was very good, and these problems were minor. I've read or tried to read much more poorly done books.This is an old-fashioned mystery and not just because it's set in the 1950's in England. It's not lurid, there are no explicit sex scenes, or foul language, and that's rather nice. Lord James Harrington and his wife, Beth, are middle-aged with two grown sons, rather nice as well, since I'm no longer a spring-chicken myself. It was nicely plotted, and the writing was good.I would say that they should be read in order. The Spring Mystery follows the Winter Mystery, which I intend to read next, and she does give a fair amount of plot/outcome information out about that one. I'm hoping that I won't have too much knowledge about the Winter Mystery and that it will not be spoiled. I do recommend the Spring Mystery, and expect that I will like the Winter Mystery as I liked the characters and the "supporting cast". I also am assuming that there will be both a Summer Mystery and a Fall Mystery, eventually.