*Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery, by Dana Cameron

...another November has come and gone...sigh...

Finishing out the topic for November's reading, we have Site Unseen, by Dana Cameron. It's the first in a series featuring Emma Fielding, an archaeologist, and probably the last one I'll read, at least for a while. I have bigger fish to fry, as they say.

Emma Fielding is an archaeologist, as was her grandfather before her. She teaches at a small university, where she still has three years to go before she makes tenure. She is currently heading up work at a site where she believes she will find an old, pre-Jamestown fort, and the results will hopefully make getting her tenure that much easier and act as her ticket to fame in the archaeology world. But with not too much time left for the season, Emma finds a body near the beach, then is hassled and threatened by a pothunter. Just when you think that nothing else can go wrong, the murder of someone close to her just about sends Emma off the deep end. Teaming up with the local sheriff, Emma decides to do some investigating on her own.

I have to admit that I was totally off the mark in trying to guess the "whodunit," so in that sense, the mystery was a decent one. The author writes well and manages to keep your interest up throughout the story. It's still a bit cutesy for my taste, but I'm a tough audience. People who like a smattering of romance and love in their mysteries probably will enjoy it much more than I. It's a cute series, and I may go back to it someday, but not now.