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July 2011 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be Released in July 2011:

Jeff Abbott: Adrenaline (This will be the 1st in the NEW Sam Capra Thriller Series…)

Susan Wittig Albert: The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies (This will be the 2nd in the Darling Dahlias Mystery Series…)

Donna Andrews: The Real Macaw (This will be the 13th in the Meg Langslow Mystery Series…)

Annette Blair: Skirting the Grave (This will be the 4th in the Vintage Magic Mystery Series…)

Alys Clare: The Rose of the World (This will be the 13th in the Hawkenlye Mystery Series…)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Let’s Play Dead (This will be the 2nd in the Museum Mystery Series…)

Bill Crider: The Wild Hog Murders (This will be the 18th in the Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery Series…)

Kate Ellis: Kissing the Demons (This will be the 3rd in the Joe Plantagenet Mystery Series…)

P. L. Gaus: Harmless as Doves (This will be the 7th in the Ohio Amish Country Mystery Series…)

Patricia M. Hale: How to Moon a Cat (This will be the 3rd in the Cats and Curios Mystery Series…)

Reginald Hill (aka Patrick Ruell): The Woodcutter (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Suzette A. Hill: A Bedlam of Bones (This will be the 5th in the Reverend Oughterard Mystery Series…)

J. A. Jance: Betrayal of Trust (This will be the 20th in the J. P. Beaumont Mystery Series…)

Victoria Laurie: Vision Impossible (This will be the 9th in the Psychic Eye Mystery Series…)

Laura Levine: Pampered to Death (This will be the 10th in the Jaine Austen Mystery Series…)

Ada Madison (aka Camille Minichino & Margaret Grace): The Square Root of Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW Sophie Knowles Mystery Series…)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Lucy Lawrence): Books Can Be Deceiving (This will be the 1st in the NEW Library Lover’s Mystery Series…)

Cricket McRae: Wined and Died (This will be the 5th in the Home Crafting Mystery Series…)

Perri O’Shaughnessy: Dreams of the Dead (This will be the 13th in the Nina Reilly Mystery Series…)

David Rosenfelt: One Dog Night (This will be the 9th in the Andy Carpenter Mystery Series…)

Margaret Truman: Monument to Murder (This will be the 16th in the Capital Crimes Mystery Series…)

Melinda Wells (aka Linda Palmer): Pie à la Murder (This will be the 4th in the Della Cooks Mystery Series…)

Patricia Wynn: A Killing Frost (This will be the 4th in the Blue Satan Mystery Series…)

***No Rest for the Dead (One mystery novel written by 26 Best Selling Mystery Authors – Including: Jeff Abbot, Jeffery Deaver, J. A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Lisa Scottoline, Alexander McCall Smith, Kathy Reichs, Marcia Talley, w/introduction by David Baldacci)

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Authors Who Are Similar to Leslie Meier

I received a request for a list of authors who write Cozy Mysteries that are similar to those written by Leslie Meier. So, here goes!

Authors Who Are Similar to Leslie Meier:

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series

Kate Borden (aka Kate Grilley): Peggy Jean Turner Mystery Series

Laura Childs: Tea Shop Mystery Series

Jill Churchill: Jane Jeffry Mystery Series

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly) : Coffee House Mystery Series

Mary Daheim: Emma Lord Mystery Series AND Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series

Diane Mott Davidson: Goldy Bear Catering Mystery Series

Monica Ferris: Needlecraft Mystery Series

Joanne Fluke: Cookie Jar Mystery Series

Earlene Fowler: Benni Harper Mystery Series

Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series

Caroline Hart: Death on Demand Mystery Series

Betty Hechtman: Crochet Mystery Series

Joan Hess: Claire Malloy Mystery Series

Tamar Myers: Pennsylvania Dutch Inn Mystery Series

Maggie Sefton: Knitting Mystery Series

Elaine Viets: Dead End Job Mystery Series AND Mystery Shopper Mystery Series

Valerie Wolzien: Susan Henshaw Mystery Series

Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to Leslie Meier, and I will add them to the list.

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Authors Similar to Carola Dunn

Diana sent me a letter asking for help finding authors similar to sleuth Daisy Dalrymple’s creator, Carola Dunn:

“I’m hoping you’ll be willing to give me a suggestion or two – I especially love …  Carola Dunn (Daisy Dalrymple).  … do you have any specific author suggestions?”

I am going to start the list off with Jacqueline Winspear (who Diana suggested in her letter) and some other authors who I think Diana might be able to substitute Carola Dunn with, now that she is all caught up with Dunn’s Daisy Dalrymple mysteries.

Authors Who Are Similar to Carola Dunn:

Susan Wittig Albert: Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mystery Series

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Hamish Mcbeth Mystery Series

Rhys Bowen: Molly Murphy Mystery Series AND Lady Georgiana Mystery Series

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series

Marion Chesney (aka M. C. Beaton): Edwardian Murder Mystery Series

Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin Mystery Series

Dianne Day: Freemont Jones Mystery Series

Ann Granger: Markby & Mitchell Village Whodunit Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher Mystery Series and Corinna Chapman Mystery Sereis

Kate Kingsbury (aka Rebecca Kent): Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Series

Catriona McPherson: Dandy Gilver Mystery Series

Robin Paige (aka Susan Wittig Albert & Bill Albert): Kate Ardleigh Sheridan & Sir Charles Sheridan Victorian Mystery Series

Victoria Thompson: Gaslight Mystery Series

Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series

Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to Carola Dunn, and I will add them to the list.

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Sharon Pape, Debbie Steever, Sara Woods, & Suzanne Young … Four New Additions to the Cozy Mystery Site…

I have finally added some new mystery authors to the Cozy Mystery site! I have so many authors who you all have recommended as belonging on the site, and I know that I should get them posted faster. But, of course, there are no excuses for taking this much time…

So, here are the four newest mystery author additions to the Cozy Mystery site:

Sharon Pape used to be a teacher. She is now writing the Portrait of a Crime Mystery Seires which will fall under the paranormal subgenre. Her main sleuth (Aurora – Rory McBain) is a police sketch artist who has inherited her uncle’s Victorian mansion AND an 1870s federal marshal who inhabits the old house.

Debbie Steever writes Stand Alone mysteries. One of them involves two brothers and a journal full of family secrets that their father left them after his death. Another of Steever’s Stand Alone mysteries is about a highschool reunion that goes terribly wrong… for both the corpse and the suspect…

The next author has several aliases:
Sara Woods: Antony Maitland Mystery Series
Mary Challis: Jeremy Locke Mystery Series
Margaret Leek: Stephen Marryat Mystery Series
All three of the above series have British barristers as their sleuths.
Anne Burton: Richard Trenton Mystery Series
The above series has a British banker as its sleuth.

Suzanne Young has her degree in English, which she parlayed into a very varied career, which included working as the project director on a National Science Foundation grant at MIT. Young writes the Edna Davies Mystery Series. Edna is an amateur herbalist who lives in Rhode Island (on the coast) and solves mysteries.

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