After reading The Bohemian Murders, which was ok but not
great, I went
back to the beginning of the series to see if she started out any better.
Not really. Day uses the conceit of the liberated, spirited young woman
defying conventions alone against the world but it’s been done before and
done better as well. I just wasn’t all that interested in Fremont or her
typing service. And she isn’t even a very good sleuth. She stumbles onto
the solution to her little mystery rather than doing any good detecting.
Fire and Fog had the San Francisco earthquake as its background and
that was kind of interesting. Both these books would have been much
better if she had skipped the mystery stuff and just kept it on the level
of a romance. Her love interest, Michael, has many more possibilities for
development than Day gives him. Unfortunately, I don’t think I will read
any more in the series.