Inspired by a recent wedding display, the town of Plummergen is creating a “Bayeux Tapestry” quilt mural of the history of their village. At the same time, Miss Seeton is using her psychic sketching abilities to help the police try to figure out a mysterious death. There’s also talk of ghosts in the graveyard, there are actual foreigners visiting town, and a spooky painting is found beneath the crumbling plaster of a local cottage. There’s a lot going on!

I read the first Miss Seeton book several years ago and really enjoyed it. I’ve meant to read more but hadn’t until NetGalley sent me this free ebook in exchange for my opinion. It was nice but not as entertaining as I had remembered. Miss Seeton was hardly in the book, it felt like to me. The story was a bit slow to get started and to get to the mysteries. The supporting characters were all entertaining in a satirical way, but there were so many that it was hard to remember who was who. I definitely want to give the series a further read, and it was a fun read, but not great.

Emily Seeton, aka Miss Seeton, Miss Ess, or the Battling Brolly, is the fictional heroine in a series of British cosy mystery novels written in part by Heron Carvic; then following Carvic's death, by Roy Peter Martin, writing as Hampton Charles (I guess preferring to focus more on his own "The Superintendent Otani Mysteries" under the name of James Melville); then picked by Sarah J. Mason (writing as Hamilton Crane), before branching out on her own with the “Trewley & Stone” series .

In each book, we find Miss Seeton using her skills as an art teach as she randomly draws psychologically and, perhaps, psychically informative sketches that allow Inspector Delphick of the Yard, and his assistant Bob Ranger, to solve the crime. The primary storyline is the seemingly naive and oblivious Miss Seeton finding herself in awkward situations, then managing to provide enough random clues and insights for the detectives to use to solve these mysteries.

I have read a number of titles in the series (of which there are 23 - 22 and a prequel). The character of Miss Seeton is standard cosy fare (elderly spinster involved in solving crimes); the villagers, distinctly unique (reference "The Nuts"); the crimes predominantly local with a few trips further afield; the community, typically English of the 1950s style. Whilst the first five stories were original and charming, as the series goes on, it does get a bit repetitive, and with so much crime in one sleepy village, I'm surprised Scotland Yard has opened a branch there! In the end, Miss Seeton comes across as a poor man's Miss Marple crossed with Inspector Clouseau as the final author, I feel, struggles to provide anything original with which to involve our heroine.

The first Miss Seeton story in 20 years, I hadn’t heard of these stories before.

The blurb sounded promising, I was eager to begin.

I now never want to hear of this eponymous person again.

Waste of the three days it took to plough through it.

Not my taste, clunky and predictable.

This book was a great read! I loved all the characters I have recommend this book to all my friends

I love Miss Seaton. I enjoyed the mystery. It was well written and hard to put down.

Adorable - perhaps good for Christie/McCall Smith fans. A bit twee, but as before, that works for a lot of readers.

Sorry for the inconvenience but I have lost interest in the concept. I have realized that this is a part of the series and I haven't read any previous book in the series.
Thank you for providing the copy though. I look forward to reading some more titles of yours. Thanks!

I received this book free to read and review from Netgalley. Thanks also to the author and publisher.
Miss Was deserves a rest judging by this book. This was the first series I read in which one author took over the characters and storyline of another. Heron Cervic's Miss Weston was one who acknowledged evil in the world but was determined to do the honorable, the right thing. Her refusal to bend her beliefs of how a genteel spinster lady of a certain age should behave led to some absurdly funny situations. Her talent for seeing more than was visible to others simply made her uncomfortable. I have re-read there books over the years and still laugh. The second author in the series went by the name of Hampton Charles. These books were still able to evoke plenty of smiles but lacked the spontaneous fun of the originals. The Hamilton Crane books continue to stray from the flustered misunderstandings that caught the villain, to an over explained story lacking cohesion and appeal.

It was silly of me to try to jump into the series this late in the game but I've heard great things about the Miss Seeton series as a fan of cozy mystery. However, I just could not get into the story or connect with any of the characters as I always felt there was something more to every interaction than I was picking up on. My recommendation is to definitely read the earlier books as jumping in this late isn't very enjoyable. I'll come back to it again though after I have read some of the earlier books.

Well, I wanted this book to be a lot more than it was. I had no idea there were so many in this series, but this one felt rushed and tossed together to me. It's not a short read, per say, I guess I just didn't connect with it as deeply as I'd hoped.

My copy came from Net Galley. My thoughts and opinions are my own. This review is left of my own free volition.

Miss Seeton is back after a hiatus of many years with no new novel in the series! It was fun to read a new Miss Seeton book in Miss Seeton Quilts the Village, and fun to read about incidents which spin off of Plummergen’s version of a Royal Wedding when Nigel Colveden marries the beautiful daughter of a French count. As a tribute to the couple, the village decides to make their own version of the Bayeux tapestry which causes all kinds of competitiveness to surface amongst the village inhabitants. And several other subplots unfold including a historic reverse painting of Henry VIII which is found in the home the young couple wish to occupy as well as evidence that the house once harbored Nazi sympathizers right in the heart of Kent. A hidden stash of gold coins is also rumored to exist, and a South American dictator who takes up residence in the village adds yet more intrigue. Fans of the series rejoice! The newest addition does not disappoint. Thank you Farrago and NetGalley for the Advanced Reader’s Copy of this book and for permitting me to review it.

A return to form for the Miss Seeton series - Plummergen shines, Miss Seeton twinkles, and fumbles, and draws her out in and out of a mystery, the Nuts are generally unpleasant. I don't think a reader enjoys this series for the gritty and knotty problems to solve, although we are really upping the ante with Nazis here, but rather throws this on like a warm blanket on a chilly day. Comforting, satisfying, and familiar. A recommend.

Thank you to Farrago Press for providing an advanced copy of Miss Seeton Quilts the Village for review.

Originally created by author Heron Carvic, and now continued by Sarah J Mason under the pen name of Hamilton Crane, fans of Miss Seeton will undoubtedly been excited for this new addition to the series.

Sir George and Lady Colvedon’s son Nigel has married Louise, a Frenchwoman. To the inhabitants of Plummergen, this is the equivalent in importance to a royal wedding! Inspired by Louise’s French background, the village plan to create their own version of the Bayeaux Tapestry. All inhabitants of the village are encouraged to produce their own panel for the project detailing an important event in village history and Miss Seeton is tasked with using her artistic abilities to create an overall design for the project.

Whilst this might sound straight forward, Miss Seeton soon finds herself distracted by hidden frescos, Nazi secrets and mysterious Spaniards. Life in Plummergen is never boring!

The story is about secrets - the secret artwork on the cottage wall, the Saxon sisters’ secret, the secretive foreign visitors to the village and the Home Office’s secret surrounding a diplomat’s death.

As usual, Miss Seeton unwittingly foils some nefarious intentions with the aid of her trusty umbrella and her cryptic drawings, interpreted by Superintendent Delphick (“the Oracle”) and his sidekick Sergeant Bob Ranger, along with some assistance from Superintendent Brinton and Detective Constable Foxton.

As with the earlier Miss Seeton books, I like the humour. The author produces an amusingly satirical take on a traditional detective novel and of village life. With their excessive nosiness and partiality to gossip, Plummergen’s inhabitants are not the sort to allow anyone even a modicum of privacy! We then have a protagonist who has the ability to solve problems that Scotland Yard’s top detectives cannot sole, virtually by accident.

As always with the Miss Seeton series, Miss Seeton Quilts the Village provides the reader with a snapshot of village life mixed with a big dollop of mystery and skulduggery. A jolly good (albeit slightly twee) adventure and a perfect treat for a rainy Sunday afternoon!

Being the first in the series written by Hamilton Crane, I was interested to see how Miss Seeton Quilts the Village holds up against the originals. In my opinion, there was a slightly different feel to the writing style, however that may just be because I was specifically looking out for any differences. Either way, I think Crane has produced an enjoyable addition to the series.

The book is a standalone novel, however as it is the 22 book in the Miss Seeton series reading the earlier books in the series could assist in providing some background information regarding Miss Seeton’s unique skillset and her relationship with both the local police and the villagers.

Fun read! Thanks Netgalley, I will look for more by this author!

Miss Seeton is just as delightful in this book as she was in the first three books I reviewed earlier in the year. Still present are the lovable villagers and Police officers we have grown fond of all still perplexed ,bewildered or enamoured by Miss Emily’s particular propensity to become embroiled in the local calamity caused by criminal interlopers from “Outside”. Her sketches are still eerily prophetic and her innocent wish to be helpful is still the thing that keeps big gruff men coming to her parlour to try to interpret her drawings and solve the mystery.

This outing for our umbrella wielding spinster involves competitive handicrafts and the pervasive shadow of Nazi German sympathisers and that in a nutshell encompasses the true allure of this series, it is such a mixture of the faintly ludicrous and the darker more ominous reality of nasty folk taking advantage of the vulnerable ,but melded together in a wry and knowingly humorous way that is immensely satisfying.

Miss Seeton does it again - a brilliant series for a quick non-challenging but highly enjoyable read. Give them a go if you want a short & amusing read for a journey or lazy afternoon

Miss Seeton Quilts the Village is a novel that plods through its plot. The diction is British and sometimes hard to read. The title would attract a quilter obviously, and there are references to quilting or rather piecing and appliqué as no real quilting is being done. The title refers to the town project to portray the history of the village.
As the story unfolds, the reader learns that Miss Seeton often sketches for the police. Her expertise as an artist makes her a good choice to help design the village quilt. The villagers do not really know her, since she is fairly new to the village, which makes her somewhat of a “foreigner.”
The novel skips back and forth between several story lines - the concerns of the police, the discovery of a historical artifact, the lives of the villagers, and the mystery of the foreigners who are vacationing in the village. Overall, I found it difficult to read.and stopped one third of the way through the story.

It took awhile for me to get into the story. I didn't realize this was 22nd in a series when I requested to read this, I felt a bit out of sorts as if I had missed something, things such as references to the other books characters or situations. I started off feeling the tale was an okay read, but as I continued the story grew on me. I'm not sure if Miss Seeton is somewhat clairvoyant or just really insightful, perhaps previous books explain this. As a tale of mystery, it was interesting that within the same story there were Nazi's and Henry the Eighth. Now, I must find the beginning of this series to read.

I gave up on reading this book after the first few chapters. It's not for me. I had hoped for a new take on a Miss Marple genre but found myself confused with a flurry of character introductions, visits to the Lakes and old fashioned language and culture.

Not bad! I love the original Miss Seeton stories, by Heron Carvic. I tried reading some of the others, but they never came up to the quality of the originals, and after a while I just quit. At least they moved away from the homophobic author - but Hamilton Crane seemed to be intent on including every single character who had ever been in a Miss Seeton story into each new one, which made it hard to also include a new plot and adventure. There was a long pause in the Miss Seeton books, then they got reissued in ebook form; I got the Heron Carvic ones through Netgalley, read and enjoyed them, and deliberately ignored the rest of the series. But this one is actually new; same author (I think - might be someone else using the same name, which is clearly a pseudonym anyway), but written this year, after the pause. So I tried it - and it works. There are still a _lot_ of callbacks to familiar characters, situations, and patterns (village competition, and gossip, in particular - plus a somewhat random reference to one character being homosexual), but it's not jammed full of every single character, like the last ones I read. The story is a little sketchy - Delphick is mostly sidetracked, dealing with mounds of paper. Assorted random things get linked together, with Miss Seeton's sketches doing some (but not all) of the linking (as usual). There's a big punchup near the end - and for once Miss Seeton is not directly involved (which is mentioned, with wonder, by some of those who are). And the story actually ends a little early - there's still at least one sketch unseen by the police, with the answer to at least one question in it. Not a major question, or at least not one Delphick is supposed to answer (or even learn the answer to), but still. Cute, fluffy, not up to Heron Carvic but definitely worth reading. I may even go back and read some of the Miss Seetons I've skipped.