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    Scene of the Climb

    By Kate Dyer-Seeley

    3.5/5

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    A Portland journalist bluffs her way into a job writing for an outdoor magazine—where she soon has to climb a mountain—and catch a murderer . . .
     
    Portland, Oregon, is the perfect fit for someone like Meg Reed. It’s a city with a small-town feel, where she can crash on the couch of her best friend Jill, now that she’s graduated from journalism school . . .
     
    But a girl needs a job, so Meg bluffs her way into writing for Northwest Extreme magazine, passing herself off to editor-in-chief Greg Dixon as an outdoor adventure enthusiast. Never mind that Meg’s idea of sport is climbing onto the couch without spilling her latte. So when she finds herself clawing to the top of Angel’s Rest—a two-thousand-foot peak—to cover the latest challenge in a reality TV adventure show, she can’t imagine feeling more terrified. Until she witnesses a body plummet off the side of the cliff. Now Meg has a murder to investigate. And if the climbing doesn’t kill her, a murderer just might . . .
     
    “A splendid overview of the greater Portland and Columbia River Gorge region, perfect for travel buffs. Her protagonist shows promise with her determined attitude and moxie.” —Library Journal
     
    Includes Adventure Guides!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKensington Books
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9780758295323
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    Scene of the Climb
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    Kate Dyer-Seeley

    Kate Dyer-Seeley is  the author of Scene of the Climb, Slayed on the Slopes, Silenced in the Surf, First Degree Mudder, and In Cave Danger in the Pacific Northwest Mystery series, as well as the memoir Underneath the Ash. Her writing has appeared in Climbing Magazine, The Oregonian, The Columbian, Portland Family Magazine, and The Vancouver Voice. She is an active member of the Willamette Writers Association and the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. Visit her website at katedyerseeley.com.

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    • 4/5
      Scene of the Climb by Kate Dyer-Seeley is a cute cozy mystery. It is the first book in A Pacific Northwest Mystery series. Mary Margaret Reed (Meg) has just finished college. She is a journalism major living in Portland, Oregon with a penchant for pink. Unfortunately for Meg, newspapers and magazines are not doing well. The O (the newspaper that she wanted to work for) has closed its doors. Meg is staying with her best friend, Jill Pettygrove in her apartment in The Pearl (an expensive area of Portland) while looking for a job. Meg goes out to get coffee (forgetting to brush her teeth and hair) and meets Greg Dixon. Greg is the editor-in-chief of Northwest Extreme magazine. Greg has an open position and offers it to Meg. When asked about her outdoor activities (hiking, biking, skiing, etc.), Meg decides to embellish (she can walk and she sort of went skiing once). Meg’s first assignment big assignment is a feature on Race the States. It is a show filming contestants doing extreme activities. The winner will receive $1,000,000. The last leg of the race is taking place in Portland, Oregon. Unfortunately for Meg, it involves a hike up a mountain. Meg manages to the first stopping point (she wore boots that she did not break in before the hike), but then fakes a fall in order to avoid having to go onto the summit. While examining her injuries, Meg sees Lenny swan dive off the mountain. Meg is sure that it is murder and sets out to investigate (despite her boss and the sheriff telling her to stay out of it). Meg ends up in trouble and needs to be rescued from the killer.Scene of the Climb is a charming cozy mystery with fun characters, but the mystery was simple to solve. If you are good at solving mysteries, you should be able to figure it out before the body enters rigor mortis. I give Scene of the Climb 4 out of 5 stars.
    • 5/5
      When I started reading Scene of the Climb, I will admit to wondering what I had gotten myself into. Climbing? On mountains, over rocks, defying death? Won’t happen for this gal under any circumstances. But by the time I figured out that although I got dizzy just thinking about some of the messes Meg gets herself into, it was too late to back out. Kate Dyer-Seeley has a winner on her hands. Meg is a young gal who is pretty much clueless, but will go to great lengths to deny it. Yes, there’s a lot of physical exertion in the story, but the back to back murders are just too connected to be coincidence. Then there’s Gam, the saucy grandmother who is part psychic, part sorceress, and exudes a whole lot of compassion and understanding. Everyone needs a Gam. The way Dyer-Seeley ends this book is astonishing, although somewhat disconcerting. I want to know what happened to her father, but it looks like I will have to wait for the second book in her Pacific Northwest Mystery series to find out. Don’t plan on going to sleep quickly when you put this one down, you’ll find your mind racing with questions about what happens next. Great read!
    • 3/5
      This cozy mystery introduces the reader to Meg Reed, a journalist who gets a job at the magazine Northwest Extreme. There's only one problem. She doesn't have any extreme sports experience.So what's a girl to do? She fakes it. Her first assignment is to cover the final leg of "Race The States", a racing competition with a grand prize of one million dollars. What Meg didn't count on is the death of one of the contestants.Was it an accident or is someone so desperate to win that they are killing off the competition.I'm a cozy mystery fan but I found myself having a hard time getting through this book.
    • 3/5
      I picked this up based on a positive review and thinking my wife, a hiker, might like it. It's a little too, um, chicky for my taste. The protagonist is like, totally desperate for a job and lies her way into one at an outdoors-focused magazine. When a contestant in a race she's covering dies, various forms of, like, stuff hit the fan at different angles. The writing isn't terrible but the protagonist sounds like an adolescent and isn't strong enough to carry the story.
    • 3/5
      This is the beginning of a new cozy series that shows a lot of promise. Meg is a good-hearted, and sometimes bumbling, young woman fresh out of college who's always wanted to follow in her talented father's shoes as an investigative journalist. Her best friend Jill has a nice apartment in Portland and is more than willing to put up with Meg's slovenly ways. There are suitable romantic interests for our heroine, and Dyer-Seeley has created a cast that should stand up well to future adventures even if it does contain my least favorite character-- the impossible mother.The Portland setting with nearby sites and hiking trails made me want to go up there and experience it for myself. Scene of the Climb is a nice blend of the traditional cozy and an adventure with an edge to it, and the series should do well-- especially if a couple of things are addressed.Meg being a couch potato who has to go out there and learn outdoor skills is going to have a wide appeal among readers; however, I found two of her behaviors to be rather disturbing. She doesn't seem to have a complete understanding of the word "deadline" although she certainly has time to go out for coffee or meals with her friends. This might just mean that I haven't fully recovered from being one of those Type A personalities, but the other thing well and truly drives me up a wall. Without going into too much detail, she knows that her life is in danger, but instead of exercising at least a bit of common sense and caution, Meg just keeps going out to test her luck. Not. Good.The other thing that bothered me is something I normally do not mention, but I feel I have to here. Incorrect punctuation a time or two, the wrong word in a sentence... if they happen less than five times in a book, I ignore it. But it happened over and over and over in this book. The proofreading and editing were abysmal. Countless instances of missing or extra words, "air" being used instead of "err," and a scene in which Meg was called first thing in the morning to meet someone who was an hour away. Meg left almost immediately, but as she was driving non-stop to her destination, the sun had set. As I said before, this series has a lot of promise. I'm hoping that Meg locates her common sense, and that the next book is edited more carefully because then the promise will begin to be realized.