Here is a new author entry for the “Authors Similar to…” pages. Luckily, Katherine Hall Page continues to publish her Faith Fairchild Mystery Series. Hopefully, Faith will continue to sleuth (and cater) for many years to come!
Authors Who Are Similar to Katherine Hall Page:
Barbara Allan: Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery Series
Rhys Bowen: Molly Murphy Mystery Series
Jane K. Cleland: Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series
Cleo Coyle: Coffee House Mystery Series
Mary Daheim: Emma Lord Alpine Mystery Series
Diane Mott Davidson: Goldy Bear Catering Mystery Series
Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swenson Cookie Jar Mystery Series
Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series
Carolyn Hart: Death on Demand Mystery Series
Ellen Hart: Sophie Greenway Mystery Series
Jane Langton: Homer Kelly Mystery Series
Karen MacInerney: Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series
G. A. McKevett: Savannah Reid Mystery Series
Emilie Richards: Ministry is Murder Mystery Series
Hank Phillippi Ryan: Charlotte McNally Mystery Series
Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mystery Series
Valerie Wolzien: Susan Henshaw Mystery Series AND Josie Pigeon Mystery Series
Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to Katherine Hall Page, and I will add them to the list.
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Regina says
Danna,Seeing that Katherine Hall Page has set her books in MA. I thought I should mention that today is a Holiday in MA called Patriots Day. It is commemorated in a famous poem that begins, “Twas on the nineteenth of April 75 hardly a man is still alive that remembers that famous day and ride.” For all you mystery buffs, who wrote the poem and about whom. In my youth, it was the day for the Boston Marathon and Opening Day of the Red Sox vs the Yankees. Tomorrow I will supply the answer.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Regina, I remembered it was Paul Revere, but would have had to Google the author. Fortunately, my husband was an English major…
linda c says
Regina, I started reading this series because it was set in the State of Maine. This is one of those states that I so wish I could visit. I want to see that head lighthouse in Portland.
Carrie says
Good heavens! That takes me right back to my school days. I remember having to learn that poem and can still recall most of it now!
It is “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Wow, Carrie, I wouldn’t have been able to come up with Longfellow, without my husband’s help.
I do, however, remember memorizing “Himno Nacional de Chile”… but , can’t remember the author of that one either. (My father was in the Air Force, and my parents didn’t allow us to go to DoD schools.)
Carrie says
We used to have to learn poems on a fairly regular basis at our school and, unlike most other things learnt at school, I can still recite most of them now. My neice was recently reading Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and I recited the whole of Jabberwocky for her. I have now grown in her estimation! Which isn’t easy!
The worst was having to learn the whole of Lord Alfred Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott one weekend (all four parts!) only to arrive at school on the Monday to find our English Literature teacher had forgotten to mention that we only had to learn the first part! Aarrgghh!!! Please Google the poem to see just how long it is and then you will understand!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Carrie, we just (RE) watched the Miss Marple television movie (the best version, the one with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple) The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, in which Lord Alfred Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott was used several times by Miss Marple and her friend, Dolly. I’m surprised you didn’t capitalize “Aarrgghh!!!”!!! That is l-o-o-o-n-g!
MJ says
If you like Kathryn Hall Page because she is a caterer and includes recipes in her books, then we could just list all the cozies that have chefs, cooks, etc. w/recipes. OR, if you like her books because of location, we could list all those written with a New England setting. I love this author because of her writing style and the unique mysteries she consistently writes year after year. She selects different story locales (home town, Boston, summer home) for variation. Character development (family, friends, criminals, etc.) is exceptional in her stories. The main characters are complex – no one is perfect! I find her books intriguing and well written, but not necessarily humorous. She isn’t ‘light and fluffy’ as some other authors (who I also enjoy). If you like similar ‘characters’, then read Emilie Richards ‘Minister’s Wife’ series.
Writing style is so distinctive to each author, it’s difficult to make comparisons. BUT having said that, I’d look at these authors with a well crafted mystery and similar intensity, but not necessarily same subject matter (food), characters (family w/children), or location (Northeast) – .Ellen Hart’s ‘Sophie Greenway’ series, Jane Cleland’s ‘Antique’ series, Hank Phillippi Ryan’s ‘Charlotte McNally’ series, and possibly Karen MacInerney’s ‘Gray Whale Inn’ series or Cleo Coyle’s ‘Coffeehouse Mystery’ series.
What would be nearly impossible to find is all the combinations – food, locale, similar characters, AND writing style. That is UNIQUELY Katherine Hall Page.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
MJ, great description of Katherine Hall Page’s mysteries. I totally agree with you about not adding every culinary, Massachusetts, or “recipe-included” authors to the list, rather, authors with substance. Thank you for all of the great author additions to the list!
Deb says
Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of April in ’75. Hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year.
……One if by land and two if by sea and I on the opposite shore shall be…..
And that’s all I remember. Since I learned it in about 1950, I think that’s pretty good! Of course, I started reciting it last Saturday because I got the date wrong!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Deb, if I had a memory like yours, my computer desk wouldn’t be covered with hand-written notes on strips of paper (recycled!) reminding me of what I have to do, and when!
*Susan says
Back ON topic (Lol!) another author for the ‘Similar to…’ list is Emilie Richards.
Her ‘Ministry is Murder’ series is excellent, and also features the wife of a pastor, as the sleuth.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thank you, *Susan, I just added Emilie Richards to the list.
Regina says
Carrie, Congratulations !!!! Where I grew up, we did not celebrate Revere’s ride but his companion, William Dawes. Revere had a great PR man in Longfellow.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Regina, sort of like what today is refereed to as “going viral”?
Katherine Hall Page says
Thank you! Proud to even be on the list. Add Valerie Wolzien—both the Susan Henshaw and Josie Pigeon series fit the category!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Katherine, thank you, what a great suggestion!
I just added Valerie Wolzien to the list.
linda c says
Katherine Hall Page, You are such a good writer and storyteller. I love your books. Please don’t stop writing.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Linda C, I agree with you about Katherine Hall Page being a terrific storyteller!
MaryLou says
Just a note to say Rhonda Pollero’s latest in the Finley Tanner series “Slightly Irregular” is now out. I love these books. They are funny, captivating, suspenseful, romantic. If you want a fun read, please check Rhonda’s series, you will not be disappointed.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thanks, MaryLou.
linda says
Danna, In this listing you have Emilie Richards. I love this author’s quilting series. Along with the murder mysteries, this type of stories is what I want to read. Sometimes I just want to read something besides the mysteries. The “Blossom Street” series is another good series. I didn’t know this author also wrote mysteries. Since I love the quilting series I know I will try the mystery series.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Linda, Emilie Richards does indeed write the Shenendoah Album series, which features quilting rather than mysteries.
ginger says
Danna
I read all authors on this list but 1. I could not get into Jane Langton’s Homer Kelly but will try again. Sometimes I will go back and try the author again. By the way, my two weeks of keeping gate at softball and baseball is over today.
I just have prom tonight and baseball playoffs left. Yes I read a book at every one. I would finish one and start another. I have probably read at least 5 or 6 books and started a new one yesterday but have not finished it yet but I will. I will try to add to list and am thinking on it.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Ginger, I have found that sometimes I am simply not in the mood for a particular author, but when I re-try him/her another time, I sometimes add him/her to my “favorite authors” list.
ginger says
Danna
Where I live, we have group of people who support our symphony. 3 times a year they have a used book sale(they called it a book fair). I have been able to complete series by going to this sale. All proceeds go to support the symphony and other programs. The next one is is June. I always have my binder up to date for this. It is a wonderful way to spend an afternoon.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Ginger, what a great idea to help a symphony during these times, when a lot of people simply have to forego fun, but costly events.
Regina says
I am waiting for the many mystery stories that I have on hold in the libraries. While I am without them, I am re-reading an author I enjoy very much. Angela Thirkell. Not mysteries but novels about England. Her Thirkell Society is meeting here in Hartford in August, so I want to be ready. By the way I see Miss Read died at the age of 98. Her books were great.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Regina, I just read Queen Lucia (by E. F. Benson) last year, and am going to be re-reading it this month, when I finish my audio book of the last Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael mystery. Every once in a while, I crave my NON mystery favorite author of all time. I can’t seem to get enough of his books. (Even though his books are a little dated.)