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Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations – June 2013

Summer is finally here, and believe me, I know it! I missed writing an entry about summer officially starting, but take a look at our forecast:

Today it’s supposed to hit 100°, Friday sees us at a projected 102°, however, Saturday is supposed to be our scorcher at 104°. Thankfully, we’ll be cooling back down on Sunday (102°)! Yes, summer is upon us here in San Antonio. (I absolutely don’t know what people did before air conditioning!)

As July quickly approaches, it’s time for me to ask you all to recommend your favorite June 2013 Cozy Mystery book. This should be the book you read during this month that you want the rest of us to know about. (If you read more than just one Cozy Mystery that you loved, let us know about those.) Please tell us why you enjoyed the book (books). That way, the rest of us can decide whether your recommended Cozy Mystery is a book we would like to try.

[As usual, I ask that you don’t tell us about the books you read that you didn’t like.]

What Cozy Mystery book (or author) have you read during June 2013, and why did you enjoy it (or him/her)?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read this past month:

Susan Wittig Albert: Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mystery Series

Esri Allbritten: Chihuahua of the Baskervilles

Jenna Bennett (aka Jennie Bentley & Bente Gallagher): Savanna Martin Real Estate Mystery
Series

Susan M. Boyer: Lowcountry Boil

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series

Duffy Brown: Consignment Shop Mystery Series

Susanna Calkins: Lucy Campion Mystery Series

Kate Carlisle: Bibliophile Mystery Series

Carol K. Carr: Madam of Espionage Mystery Series

Erika Chase: Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery Series 

Laura Childs: Tea Shop Mystery Series

Blaize Clement: Dixie Hemingway Mystery Series

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Gourmet De-Lite Mystery Series

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Museum Mystery Series

J. J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene): Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mystery Series

Shelley Costa: You Cannoli Die Once

Philip R. Craig: Martha’s Vineyard Mystery Series

Judith Cutler: Lina Townend Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Domestic Diva Mystery Series

Sharon Dunn: Texas K-9 Unit Mystery Series

Dorothy Eden: Darkwater

Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg: FBI Special Agent Kate O’Hare Mystery Series

Anne George: Southern Sisters Mystery Series

Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series

Emma Jameson: Lord & Lady Hetherdige Mystery Series

Abigail Keam: Death by a HoneyBee (Josiah Reynolds Mystery Series)

Stephen King: Joyland (Hard Case Crime Mystery)

Allison Kingsley (aka Kate Kingsbury & Rebecca Kent): Raven’s Nest Bookstore Mystery Series

Sherry Lewis (aka Jacklyn Brady): Senior Sleuth Fred Vickery Mystery Series

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series

Meg London (aka Peg Cochran): Sweet Nothings Vintage Lingerie Mystery Series

Patricia MacDonald: Sisters

Charlotte MacLeod (aka Alisa Craig): Sarah Kelling Mystery Series

Susan Elia MacNeal: Maggie Hope Mystery Series

Mary Jane Maffini (aka Victoria Abbot): Charlotte Adams Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay (aka Lucy Lawrence & Josie Belle): Library Lover’s Mystery Series

Katherine Hall Page: Faith Fairchild Mystery Series

Stuart Palmer: Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series

Nancy Pickard: Eugenia Potter Mystery Series

Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams): Chet and Bernie Mystery Series

Anne Rutherford: The Opening Night Murder

Joanna Campbell Slan: Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mystery Series

Dana Stabenow: Kate Shugak Mystery Series

Denise Swanson: Devereaux’s Dime Store Mystery Series

Texas K-9 Unit Mystery Series

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

Maggie Bishop, James Hime, Amy Metz, Lane Stone, & Lois Winston – 5 Author Additions to the Cozy Mystery Site

Since I have well over 100 authors on my “Authors to Post” list, I thought that I would try to get some of them posted. (Every time I post new authors, I get letters with even more authors for me to post.)

Here are the five newest mystery author additions to the Cozy Mystery site:

Maggie Bishop  Bishop writes the Appalachian Adventure Mystery Series. This series involves the daughter of the owners of a guest house ranch in North Carolina. Jemma Chase (the daughter) comes home to help on the ranch. She not only sleuths, but also has some very good carpentry skills.

James Hime  Hime’s first mystery in his Jeremiah Spur Mystery Series was nominated for 2004’s impressive Edgar Award – Best First Novel. The series features a retired Texas Ranger in a small town in Texas.

Amy Metz  Metz is a former school teacher who writes the Goose Pimple Junction Mystery Series. Goose Pimple Junction is the quaint, little town in the south where Tess Tremaine lives and sleuths.

Lane Stone  Stone writes the Tiara Investigations Mystery Series, which features three middle-aged former beauty queens who sleuth. These women have replaced their beauty queen tiaras with their Standard Schnauzers.

Lois Winston  Winston writes the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery Series. This series features a widow (mother of two) who is the craft editor at a New Jersey crafting magazine. Winston has won awards for her needlework and craft designs.

Cassandra Chan, Roberta Gellis, Susan Elia MacNeal, Bernadette Pajers, & Debbie Viguié – 5 Author Additions to the Cozy Mystery Site

I have just added five new mystery authors to the Cozy Mystery site. These authors are some of the authors who you all have recommended to me as belonging on the site. (I haven’t read any of them yet.)

Cassandra Chan writes the Phillip Bethancourt & Jack Gibbons Mystery Series. Bethancourt is the rich friend of Gibbons, a sergeant at Scotland Yard.

Roberta Gellis writes the Magdâline la Batarde Mystery Series. Magdâline is a madame in a London brothel during the 12th century.

Susan Elia MacNeal‘s Maggie Hope Mystery Series is set during the 1940s in London. MacNeal’s series features an American typist who is privy to many secrets.

Bernadette Pajer pens the Professor Bradshaw Mystery Series. This series is set during the early 1900s and has a professor of electrical engineering as its sleuth. Professor Bradshaw not only teaches in Washington (the state), but he is also an inventor.

Debbie Viguié writes the Psalms 23 Mystery Series. The mysteries in this series are set during different holidays, and feature Cindy Preston (a church secretary) and Rabbi Jeremiah Silverman.

2013 Nero Award Nominees

I just got word that the 2013 Nero Award Nominees have been picked. The Nero Awards are given to authors who write mystery novels similar to the way Rex Stout wrote his Nero Wolfe mystery books – which are definitely classic mysteries.

The Wolfe Pack is a society of literary people who, simply put, love everything about Nero Wolfe (Rex Stout’s main sleuth – although Archie Goodwin might think he’s the main sleuth!) The Wolfe Pack hosts the Black Orchid Banquet each year, during December – on the first Saturday of that month. It is at this time that the winners is announced.

Here are the 2013 Nero Award Nominees:

Barbara Allan: Antiques Disposal

Kieran Shields: The Truth of All Things

Loren D. Estleman: Burning Midnight

Chris Knopf: Dead Anyway

Congratulations to all the 2013 Nero Award Nominees!

If you’d like to take a look at all of the Nero Award Nominees and Winners from past years, here’s the link.

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