Mary Joy has asked me to come up with a list of authors who are similar to Lee Harris. I will begin with a few who I think qualify to be included in this theme:
Authors Who Are Similar to Lee Harris:
Leslie Meier: Lucy Stone Mystery Series…
Sister Carol Anne O’Marie: Sister Mary Helen Mystery Series…
Monica Quill: Sister Mary Teresa Mystery Series…
Livia J. Washburn: Fresh Baked Mystery Series…
Valerie Wolzien: Susan Henshaw Mystery Series…
Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to Lee Harris, and I will add them to the list.
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Andie says
I read The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames a few months ago and am currently nearly finished with Lost and Fondue.
Several authors: Kate Carlisle, Lorna Barrett, Cleo Coyle, Kirsta Davis and others have praised these stories.
I’m a huge fan of “culinary-cozy” mysteries and will certainly look forward to more from this author.
The stories are smart, funny, quirky and certainly hold my interest on every page. I feel no need to skip sections as I do in some stories that suffer from an overload of minutiae that does not advance the story.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Andie, I sometimes want to skip sections that are full of “minutiae that does not advance the story” also… But then I start thinking that I might lose one morsel of important information, and end up reading through all of the babble. I wish I could actually skip some of those parts, though!
Andie says
Perhaps it’s my age (72) or the sheer volume of books I have read over the years since my grandfather turned me loose in his library when I was nine. Being a voracious reader and reading anything and everything, has affected my patience for some authors who seem to need to justify everything in their stories. Perhaps that why I like the oldies by the Little sisters, Gladys Mitchell, Stuart Palmer, et al., because they just get on with the story and don’t add background material about all the characters, only the ones immediately involved with the story.
I also read sci-fi/fantasy (Terry Pratchett is a favorite and his books have some mystery in them also), non-fiction, science and so on.
Sci-fi books abound in little niggling details that one needs to follow so as not to lose the gist of the story.
However, when a good mystery story is interrupted so the author can talk about history of fashion, while I am anxious to learn how she is going to get out of a sticky situation, I get impatient. Just a personal quirk….
TXRed says
Writers/series similar to Lee Harris: how about Veronica Black, a British author, and her series featuring Sister Joan? These books I believe are hard to find, but at one time were featured by the Mystery Guild, where I got hooked into them. Sister Joan is a member of a cloistered order of nuns in an old monastery-type convent in the Cornwall vicinity of England, though she has some freedom to go out of the convent. I recall one of the mysteries arises when Sister Joan goes on a retreat to stay hermit-like in some remote cottage, possibly the Lake District of England. The series has 10 books ranging from 1990 to about 1998; I cannot find info on whether the author is dead, but the series hasn’t continued. All books in the series start with “A Vow of…”
Danna - cozy mystery list says
TXRed, thanks for the information about Veronica Black‘s Sister Joan, Daughters of Compassion Mystery Series. The last mystery publication date I show for her books is from 2004.