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Joanna Campbell Slan Free Signed Book & Mini Scrapbook Album Give-Away … Yes! Free!

June 24, 2010

Joanna Campbell Slan wrote to me about a give-away that she is hosting. Yes, a FREE give-away!

As you all know, Joanna Campbell Slan is the author of the Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-n-Craft Mystery Series. Her first mystery in that series was nominated for an Agatha Award in the category of Best First Novel in 2008… which is quite an accomplishment! Photo, Snap, Shot, the third mystery in the Scrap-n-Craft Mystery Series was published just last month –  May 2010.

Slan will be giving away “a signed copy of Photo, Snap, Shot; two I (heart) Kiki buttons, bookmarks, and a small album kit.” What a wonderful way to start out the summer!

All of the details for this very fun give-away can be found on her Joanna Campbell Slan Blogspot. Good luck to all of you! (This contest is over.)

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Authors Similar to Lilian Jackson Braun …

June 23, 2010

This is a list of authors who just might quench your appetite for more Lilian Jackson Braun, and her The Cat Who… Mystery Series. It’s always sad when you run out of your favorite author’s books, isn’t it?

Authors similar to Lilian Jackson Braun:

Lydia Adamson: Alice Nestleton Mystery Series AND Deirdre Quinn Nightingale Mystery Series AND Alice Nestleton Mystery Series AND Lucy Wayles Mystery Series

Garrison Allen (aka Gary Amo): Big Mike Mystery Series

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series

Marian Babson: Douglas Perkins & Gerry Tate Mystery Series AND Trixie Dolan & Evangeline Sinclair Mystery Series AND many Stand Alone Mysteries

Rita Mae Brown: Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series

Laurie Cass (aka Laurie Alden): Bookmobile Cat Mystery Series

Melissa Cleary: Dog Lovers Mystery Series

Susan Conant: Dog Lover’s Mystery Series

Carole Nelson Douglas: Midnight Louie Mystery Series AND Midnight Louie & Templar Barr Mystery Series

Dorothy Gilman: Mrs. Pollifax Mystery Series

Miranda James (aka Dean James, Honor Hartman, & Jimmie Ruth Evans): Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series

Virginia Lanier: Jo Beth Sidden Mystery Series

Evan Marshall: Jane Stuart & Winky Mystery Series

Miss Read: not mysteries… Fairacre Series AND Thrush Green Series

Gilbert Morris: Jacques and Cleo, Cat Detectives Mystery Series

Shirley Rousseu Murphy: Joe Grey Mystery Series

Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mystery Series

Leann Sweeney: Cats in Trouble Mystery Series

Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to Lilian Jackson Braun, and I will add them to the list.

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Miss Marple: The Secret of Chimneys – Agatha Christie – PBS NEW Masterpiece Mystery!

June 20, 2010

As the title of this Cozy Mystery site entry says: Miss Marple Series V is back – with a NEW 90 minute episode: The Secret of Chimneys. And, if you are ANYTHING like me, you are probably ready for your “dose” of Agatha Christie via the good folks of British television and PBS. (Thank goodness PBS still airs our favorite British mysteries… now that other channels like A & E no longer do so!)

Anyway… tomorrow, Sunday, June 20, PBS will be airing the NEW  Miss Marple Masterpiece Mystery! : The Secret of Chimneys.

Now for the bad news >>> The Secret of Chimneys is one of Agatha Christie‘s earliest mystery books. That, in itself, is not the bad news. But, the fact that it was written in 1925, five years before the first Miss Marple mystery book (Murder at the Vicarage) is.

The Secret of Chimneys is the first mystery in Agatha Christie’s lesser-known Superintendent Battles Mystery Series, which is made up of five mysteries. Superintendent Battles is a Scotland Yard man, definitely not an older, knitting-needles-wielding spinster! Because of this, I cannot be sure what part Miss Marple (played by the talented actress Julia McKenzie) will actually play in the episode. It’s anyone’s guess as to how much actual screen time Miss Marple will have, and also, how much of the screen time will be taken by Superintendent Battles.

Hmmm… It does seem a shame that with so many Agatha Christie Miss Marple mysteries available, recently several NON Miss Marple books have been made into Miss Marple movies. Oh well… I am just going to look at this from the glass-half-full perspective and simply ENJOY this show, regardless of what liberties the producers have made!

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Mysteries Books that Take Place in Vermont…

June 18, 2010

Here are some fun Vermont facts:
The capital is Montpelier.
Largest city in Vermont is Burlington.
State motto is “Freedom and Unity.”
State nickname is “Green Mountain State.”
State flower is the Red Clover.
State bird is the Hermit Thrush.
State animal is the Morgan horse.

Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site who feature Vermont locations in their books:

Connie Archer: Soup Lover’s Mystery Series. It is set in a little Vermont skiing town.

Barbara Bretton: Chloe Hobb’s Paranormal Mystery Series: Chloe owns the Sticks & Strings Knitting Shop and happens to be half human, half sorceress…

B. Comfort (aka Barbara Comfort): Tish McWhinny Mystery Series: Tish is a septuagenarian artist/sleuth…

Sarah Fox: writes the Literary Pub Mystery Series – which takes place in Vermont and features a pub owner who caters to book groups and other literary lovers.

Melissa Glazer (aka Tim Myers, Elizabeth Bright, & Chris Cavender): Clay & Crime Cozy Mystery Series: Carolyn Emerson owns the Fire at Will Pottery Shop…

Archer Mayor: Joe Gunther Mystery Series… This is a police procedural series…

Amy Patricia Meade:  Pret’ Near Perfect Mystery Series… Stella Thornton Buckley lives in a village in Vermont with her husband…

Allison Cesario Paton: Mrs. Bundle Mystery Series… Mrs. Bundle is a senior citizen sleuth …

Fran Stewart: ScotShop Mystery Series… Peggy Winn owns a shop which specializes in Scottish merchandise. Peggy has the help of a 14th century Scottish specter.

Sarah Stewart Taylor: Sweeney St. George Mystery Series:  Sweeney is a professor/historian/sleuth…

Nancy Means Wright: Ruth Willmarth Mystery Series: Ruth is a single mother/dairy farmer/sleuth…

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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