I picked up May Day as a Kindle freebie, a 'cozy' mystery to read as a bit of light relief between longer, more demanding books. And for the first few chapters, I was really enjoying the developing set-up... until it all got rather too silly for my tastes. The deliberately 'quirky' minor characters were just a bit too weird, and by the end there was almost no-one left in town without something to mark them out, making the whole thing feel like a grotesque Victorian freak show. Which is a shame, because Mira herself is a decent character, a down-to-earth woman who reluctantly turns to sleuthing when she loses faith in the local police, and her progress towards unravelling the mystery is well-paced and kept my interest. However, the fact that it got so silly, combined with various minor inconsistencies that feel like careless editing (such as Mira having to borrow some thoroughly unsuitable shoes in the first chapter, and then digging a pair of old cowboy boots out of her closet a few pages later), means I'm unlikely to read any more in this series.