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June 2011 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be Released in June 2011:

Riley Adams (aka Elizabeth Spann Craig): Finger Lickin’ Dead (This will be the 2nd in the Memphis Barbeque Mystery Series…)

David Baldacci: One Summer (This will be a Stand Alone…) (This is not a mystery…)

Lorna Barrett (aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorraine Bartlett): Sentenced to Death (This will be the 5th in the Booktown Mystery Series…)

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): Hexes and Hemlines (This will be the 3rd in the Witchcraft Mystery Series…)

Jan Burke: Disturbance (This will be the 11th in the Irene Kelly Mystery Series…)

Clive Cussler & Grant Blackwood: The Kingdom (This will be the 3rd in the Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure Series…)

Jo Dereske: Farewell, Miss Zukas (This will be the 12th in the Miss Zukas Mystery Series…) (It is the last in the series…)

Janet Evanovich: Smokin’ Seventeen (This will be the 17th in the Stephanie Plum Mystery Series…)

Lee Goldberg: Mr. Monk on the Couch  (This will be the 12th in the Mr. Monk Mystery Series…)

Carolyn Haines: Bones of a Feather (This will be the in the 11th in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series…)

Julie Hyzy: Grace Interrupted (This will be the 2nd in the Manor of Murder Mystery Series…)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Twice as Dead (This will be the 6th in the Odelia Grey Mystery Series…)

Rita Lakin: Getting Old Can Kill You (This will be the 7th in the Gladdy Gold Mystery Series…)

Leslie Meier: English Tea Murder (This will be the 17th in the Lucy Stone Mystery Series…)

Amy Myers: Classic in the Barn (This will be the 1st in the NEW Tom Colby, Car Detective Mystery Series…)

Karen E. Olson: Ink Flamingos (This will be the 4th in the Tattoo Shop Mystery Series…)

James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge: Now You See Her (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Deanna Raybourn: The Dark Enquiry (This will be the 5th in the Lady Julia Grey Mystery Series…)

Phil Rickman: The Bones of Avalon (This will be the 11th in the Merrily Watkins Mystery Series…)

Kate Sedley: The Midsummer Crown (This will be the 20th in the Roger the Chapman Mystery Series…)

Maggie Sefton: Unraveled (This will be the 9th in the Knitting Mystery Series…)

Victoria Thompson: Murder on Sisters’ Row (This will be the 13th in the Gaslight Mystery Series…)

Wendy Lyn Watson: Parfait Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Mystery à La Mode Mystery Series…)

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P. J. Alderman, Jackie Chance, J. Michael Orenduff, & S. S. Van Dine… Four New Authors on the Cozy Mystery Site

Here are the four newest additions to the Cozy Mystery site. These four authors are people who some of you have recommended as belonging on the site:

P. J. Alderman writes the Port Chatham Mystery Series. This series belongs in the paranormal category. Jordan Marsh is the sleuth who lives in the Pacific northwestern coast of the USA. She solves her mysteries while inhabiting her haunted house…

Jackie Chance writes the Poker Mystery Series. This series follows the sleuth as she leaves her old life in the advertising field (as well as her fiancé) and becomes an amateur status poker champion…

J. Michael Orenduff is an ex-math professor who writes the Pot Thief Mystery Series. This series is set in Albuquerque, and centers on Hubert Schuze, a treasure hunter who owns the Spirits in Clay shop…

S. S. Van Dine is a pseudonym for an art critic who wrote the Philo Vance Mystery Series. Philo Vance is a rich art collector in New York. (One of my favorite actors – William Powell – played Philo in several movies… which, if you are familiar with Powell’s work, might give you an idea of Philo’s personality…)

Terri Blackstock, Marion Moore Hill, J. J. Murphy, & Sue Owens Wright : Four Newest Mystery Authors Added to the Cozy Mystery Site

I have just added four new-to-the-site mystery authors to the Cozy Mystery site. I will (again!) remind you all that these are not authors who I have read. These four authors have been recommended by other Cozy Mystery site readers – as mystery authors who they think belong on the site.

Terri Blackstock: Blackstock is an award winning Christian author (including the New York Times) who writes several different series: Restoration Series, Cape Refuge Mystery Series, Newpointe 911 Series, Sun Coast Chronicles Series and also series that are neither mystery nor thriller: Season Series and Second Chances Series.

Marion Moore Hill: Hill has worked as both an English and Journalism college teacher and also a reporter. She writes two mystery series: Scrappy Librarian Mystery Series, which is set in Oklahoma and features a librarian and her dog, Rip. Hill also writes the Deadly Past Mystery Series, which features a single mother who solves mysteries at historical sites.

J. J. Murphy: Murphy has used the “real life” Algonquin Round Table as the basis of her mystery series, as well as “real life” poet/author Dorothy Parker, as her sleuth. The Algonquin Round Table Mystery Series is based on the 1920s lunch group of wits, actors, critics, and writers who used to get together for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel.

Sue Owens Wright: Wright pens the Beanie & Cruiser Mystery Series which features Beanie, a sleuth who is a free-lance reporter in Nevada, and her beloved Basset Hound, Cruiser. Wright has also written some non-fiction books that are about dogs… 150 Activities for Bored Dogs being one of them.

Mystery Books Theme: Lawyers as the Main Sleuth…

I was asked by a Cozy Mystery site reader if I could put up a Lawyers in Mystery Books theme. Here are the mystery book series (that can be found on the Cozy Mystery site) which feature lawyers as their main sleuths:

Jeff Abbott: Whit Mosley Mystery Series

Susan Wittig Albert: China Bayles Herbal Mystery Series

Nancy Bell: Judge Jackson Crain Mystery Series

Terri Blackstock: Newpointe 911 Series

Taffy Cannon (aka Emily Toll): Nan Robertson Mystery Series

John Dickson Carter: Henri Bencolin Mystery Series

Sammi Carter: Candy Shop Mystery Series

Sarah Caudwell: Hilary Tamar Mystery Series

C.S. Challinor: Rex Graves Mystery Series

Mary Challis (aka Sara Woods, Margaret Leek, & Anne Burton): Jeremy Locke Mystery Series

Kate Charles: Book of Psalms Mystery Series

Margaret Coel: Wind River Mystery Series

Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series

Natasha Cooper: Trish Maguire Mystery Series

Claire Daniels (aka Jaqueline Girdner): Karma Crime Mystery Series

Nora DeLoach: Mama Detective Mystery Series

Lesley Egan (aka Elizabeth Linington, Dell Shannon, & Anne Balisdell): Jesse Falkenstein Mystery Series

Linda Fairstein: Alex Cooper Mystery Series

Ann C. Fallon: James Fleming Mystery Series

Christina Freeburn: Faith Hunter Scrap This Mystery Series

Frances Fyfield: Sarah Fortune Mystery Series AND Helen West Mystery Series

Erle Stanley Gardner: Perry Mason Mystery Series AND Doug Selby Mystery Series

Louise Gaylord: Allie Armington Mystery Series

Sally Goldenbaum: Seaside Knitters Mystery Series

Cyril Hare: Francis Pettigrew Mystery Series

Jonnie Jacobs: Kali O’Brien Mystery Series

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Odelia Grey Mystery Series

Linda O. Johnston: Kendra Ballantyne Mystery Series

Leslie Karst: Sally Solari Mystery Series

Sean Keefer: Stand Alone Mystery: The Trust

Diane Kelly: Tara Holloway Death and Taxes Mystery Series

Jane Langton: Homer Kelly Mystery Series

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Pumpkin Patch Mystery Series

Margaret Leek (aka Sara Woods, Mary Challis, & Anne Burton): Stephen Marryat Mystery Series

Margaret Maron: Deborah Knott Mystery Series

Edward Marston (aka Keith Miles & Conrad Allen): Railway Detective Mystery Series AND Domesday Mystery Series

Ralph M. McInerny (aka Monica Quill): Andrew Broom Mystery Series

D. R. Meredith: John Lloyd Branson Mystery Series

John Mortimer: Rumpole of the Bailey Mystery Series

Perri O’Shaughnessy: Nina Reilly Mystery Series

Sara Paretsky: V.I. Warshawski Mystery Series

Barbara Parker: Suspicion Mystery Series

Chessen Parker: Crystal Coast Mystery Series

James Patterson: Women’s Murder Club Mystery Series

Cathy Pickens: Southern Fried Mystery Series

Rhonda Pollero: F. A. T. Mystery Series

David Rosenfelt: Andy Carpenter Mystery Series

Lisa Scottoline: Rosato & Associates Mystery Series

Julie Smith: Rebecca Schwartz Mystery Series

Patricia Sprinkle: Thoroughly Southern Mystery Series

Mary Stanton (aka Claudia Bishop): Beaufort & Company Mystery Series

Shirley Tallman (aka Erin Ross): Sarah Woolson Mystery Series

Robert K. Tanenbaum: Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Mystery Series

Peter Tremayne: Mystery of Ancient Ireland: Sister Fidelma Mystery Series

Margaret Truman: Smith & Reed Mystery Series

Robert Van Gulik: Judge Dee Mystery Series

Sara Woods (aka Anne Burton, Mary Challis, & Margaret Leek): Antony Maitland Mystery Series

Please feel free to comment if you see an author from the Cozy Mystery Site who belongs on this list, or if you have any corrections.

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