Michaela´s Settings Challenge 2023

[Michaela]

CATEGORIES:

- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
✅Roman Empire
- Early Japan
- Shogunate Japan
✅✅Mediaeval England
- Mediaeval Europe
✅Tudor / Stuart England
- 16th-17th Century Europe
- Georgian England
- Regency England
- Victorian England
✅✅Edwardian England
- Colonial America
- Antebellum America
- American Civil War
- Gilded Age America
- British Empire (any century, countries other than England)
- 19th Century Europe
✅✅Early 20th Century

Level #1: Bachelor of History - 3 to 10 books in at least 3 categories

[Michaela]

Ideas:

Mediaeval England: Cadfael, Bradecote and Catchpoll, Matthew Bartholomew, Owen Archer
Mediaeval Europe: Christine de Pizan
Tudor/Stuart: Shardlake, Thomas Challoner
16th/17th cent. Europe: Death in Delft
GeorgianEngland: Sebastian St Cyr
Regency England: Kurland, Wexford
Edwardian England: Hardcastle
Early 20th century: Honjin Murder, Christie and other Golden Age

[Michaela]

1) Read my first book for this challenge: the Japanese mystery set in the 1930s, first in the series of the Detective Kosuke Kindaichi:
The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo.

I had always wanted to read this but was a bit disappointed, not only by the mystery as such but also the complicated perspectives. I liked the character of the detective though and also the Japanese culture in this locked room mystery. 3 stars

[John]

Michaela wrote: "Read my first book for this challenge: the Japanese mystery set in the 1930s, first in the series of the Detective Kosuke Kindaichi:
[book:The Honjin Murders..."

I read this series, although the stories can be difficult to follow.

[Michaela]

2) First read of Dissolution by C.J. Sansom for Tudor/Stuart England.

It was sad and the mystery in the background, but otherwise well written. 3 stars.

[Michaela]

3) Another book for Early 20th Century: These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac. 4 stars.

[Michaela]

4) Read the 14th in the Cadfael series, The Hermit of Eyton Forest by Ellis Peters for Mediaeval England. 4 stars.

[Michaela]

5) Nearly forgot to add another English mediaeval mystery, Too Good to Hang: The intriguing medieval mystery series by Sarah Hawkswood, the 11th in the Bradecote and Catchpoll series which I love and found this one especially good. 4 stars

[Michaela]

6) For Roman Empire I read our August read, The Germanicus Mosaic by Rosemary Rowe. Really good, so will continue. 4 stars

[Michaela]

7) I read Mystery in the Highlands by Lydia Travers, third in the series, for Edwardian England. One of the many lady - maid/friend detective couples, but entertaining. 4 stars.

[Michaela]

8) No. 10 in the great Lady Hardcastle series, A Fire at the Exhibition by T.E. Kinsey, also for Edwardian England. Pity this one wasn´t as good as most of the others. 3 stars.

[Michaela]

I read several other mysteries from the 1920s or 30s England, but didn´t count them to the challenge. Though I had wanted to read one more, I see it finished by now.