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Bird & Birdwatcher Theme Mysteries…

September 22, 2007

I finally finished going through all of “my authors” to find their professions and/or interests. Since I have already done a Dog Mystery list and a Cat Mystery list, I thought I would continue with yet another animal who a lot of people have as pets… birds. Unfortunately, I only have a few authors who write mysteries with a bird theme…

Lydia Adamson  pens the Lucy Wayles Mystery Series. (Thanks for reminding me, Andrea!)

Donna Andrews also writes a series that uses birds in the titles, and also in some minor parts of the story lines.

Ann Cleeves writes the George and Molly Palmer-Jones mystery series that is set in England. They are birdwatchers.

Barbara Colley pens the Charlotte LaRue Mystery Series which features a maid who has a pet parakeet named Sweety Boy.

Carol Nelson Douglas has put out a book which she edited called The White House Pet Detectives, and one of the stories in the book is written by Edward D. Hoch and is called “Martha’s Parrot”… as in Martha Washington! Also included is “A Mimicry of of Mockingbirds” by Lillian Stewart Carl.

Jan Dunlap writes the Bob White Birder Murder Mystery Series, which is set in Minnesota and features a counselor at a highschool.

Christy Fifield (aka Christy Evans) writes the Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery Series which has Bluebeard, the Parrot.

Christine L. Goff writes the Birdwatchers’ Mystery series.

Lorena McCourtney is one of the authors who writes the Mysteries of Sparrow Island books –  which feature a senior-sleuth ornithologist who lives on an island off of Washington (the state)…

Mysteries of Sparrow Island Mystery Series features Abby Stanton, an ornithologist who lives on an island off of the state of Washington’s coast…

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  1. Andrea says

    November 28, 2008 at 1:35 am

    Additional Bird-Related Series:
    Lydia Adamson: Lucy Wayles Series (Central Park Birder)
    Ray Sipherd: Jonathan Wilder Series (Ornithologist)

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  2. Danna - cozy mystery list says

    November 28, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    Thanks, Andrea for writing to let me know to add Lydia Adamson’s Lucy Wayles Mystery Series to this particular entry. Also, thank you for “introducing us” to Ray Sipherds Jonathan Wilder Mystery Series. (Dance of the Scarecrows, The Audobon Quartet, and The Devil’s Hawk

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  3. Jan says

    August 5, 2011 at 12:29 pm

    Canadian author Karen Dudley has written 4 mysteries featuring Robyn Devara, a biologist specialising in bird studies:
    1. Hoot to kill
    2. The Red Heron
    3. Macaws of death
    4. Ptarmageddon

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    • Danna - cozy mystery list says

      August 5, 2011 at 2:45 pm

      Thank you, Jan, for telling us about Karen Dudley’s bird theme mysteries…

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  4. Harvee says

    October 9, 2011 at 5:05 am

    How about a gardening mystery series. I’m sorry that Anne Ripley is no longer adding to her series, which was informative about gardening as well as thrilling.

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    • Danna - cozy mystery list says

      October 9, 2011 at 2:27 pm

      Thanks, Harvee, I actually have a Mysteries with Gardening theme which includes Anne Ripley.

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  5. Marcelle says

    July 11, 2014 at 6:55 pm

    Try Barbara Colleys’s Maid for Murder series with her pet parakeet.

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    • Danna - cozy mystery list says

      July 13, 2014 at 7:55 am

      Marcelle, thanks for the parakeet tip! I’ll go add Barbara Colley’s Maid for Charlotte LaRue Mystery Series to the Bird and Birdwatcher mysteries theme.

      Reply
  6. Bg says

    July 13, 2016 at 12:48 am

    There was an author who wrote a series of books that featured a bird watcher named Dorothy Martin. I would love to find these again but have no other information. Can someone help??

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    • nancy says

      August 28, 2017 at 4:15 pm

      Author Jeanne M. Dams Dorothy Martin series.

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      • Bg says

        August 30, 2017 at 3:18 pm

        Thank you Nancy!

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  7. shan says

    August 30, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    Bird Lover’s Mystery series by JR Ripley.

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    • Danna - cozy mystery list says

      August 31, 2017 at 3:45 am

      Shan, thanks for the suggestion! I’ll have to take a look at that one some time.

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  8. Bruce says

    February 14, 2018 at 4:10 pm

    Looks like the Birder Murder Mysteries
    by Canadian Steve Burrows are set for release in the U.S.:
    Steve Burrows: Birder Murder Mystery Series

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  9. Sheila says

    March 2, 2018 at 8:22 am

    I’m looking for a mystery about a woman who hits her sisters abusive husband, they press charges, she goes to prison. When she gets out she leads bird enthusiasts in central park.

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    • Danna - cozy mystery list says

      March 3, 2018 at 5:05 am

      Sheila, I’m afraid that one doesn’t ring any bells either… there have been a big string of these, so hopefully either someone will be able to answer this, or I’ll be putting up a big questions post pretty soon!

      Reply

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