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Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV

Maria Schneider : Executive Retention "Cover Up"…

Maria Schneider’s second mystery in her Sedona O’Hala Mystery Series is going to be released very soon… as in less than a month! You all have been so good about going to her site and voting for her book covers in the past.. Some of you have even given her helpful comments about what she should add or take away from her tentative mystery book covers.

Maria is having another book cover contest over at her site, for Executive Retention (the second book in her Sedona O’Hala mystery series, following Executive Lunch) and would very much appreciate hearing from you all. (This voting is over.)

E. J. Copperman, Erle Stanley Gardner, Kathryn Miller Haines, & Susan Sleeman… The Four Newest Additions to the Cozy Mystery Site

I have so many authors who you all have recommended to the site, that I am going to post four more today. The four newest authors to the Cozy Mystery site are:

E. J. Copperman: Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series… This series is set on the Jersey shore and is a paranormal mystery series featuring ghosts. Also, I am adding it to the Bed & Breakfast theme page.

Erle Stanley Gardner: Perry Mason Mystery Series AND Doug Selby Mystery Series. As A. A. Fair: Cool Detective Agency Mystery Series. Most of us are familiar with Perry Mason, who is one of the most popular defense attorneys around!

Kathryn Miller Haines: Rosie Winter Mystery Series… This series follows an actress/sleuth in New York City during WW II.

Susan Sleeman: Garden Gate Mystery Series… Paige Turner is a landscaper/sleuth in Oregon.

S. H. Baker, Jan Dunlap, Judith K. Ivie, & Marianne Macdonald Have Been Added to the Cozy Mystery Site…

Here are the four newest authors who I have added to the Cozy Mystery site. I know that there are quite a few authors who I have not yet added, but I will be getting to them.

S. H. Baker   Baker is a civil engineer who writes the Dassas Cormier Mystery Series. The series takes place in Louisiana during the roaring 20s.

Jan Dunlap    Dunlap, a college English teacher, writes the Birder Murder Mystery Series. The series takes place in Minnesota and features a high school counselor who also happens to be a birder/sleuth… 

Judith K. Ivie   Ivie writes the Kate Lawrence Mystery Series which features a 40 (+) year old who starts out in a Hartford law firm, and ends up as realtor/sleuths…

Marianne Macdonald    Macdonald did her postgraduate studies at Oxford, and then became a professor in both Canada and England. Her Dido Hoare Mystery Series features a single mother, antiquarian bookshop owner/sleuth…

2010 Edgar Awards…

Congratulations to all of the Nominees and Winners!!!

The Mystery Writers of America held the 2010 Edgar Awards over April 28 & 29,  in New York City. As I mentioned before, Dorothy Gilman was the Grand Master.

The 2010 Edgar Awards are as follows:

Best Novel:
The Last Child by John Hart (Winner)
The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
The Odds by Kathleen George
Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
Nemesis by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

Best First Novel:
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (Winner)
The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano
Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

Best Paperback Original:
Body Blows by Marc Strange (Winner)
Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano
The Lord God Bird by Russell Hill
The Herring-Seller’s Apprentice by L.C. Tyler

Best Short Story:
Amapola by Luis Alberto Urrea
Last Fair Deal Gone Down by Ace Atkins
Femme Sole by Dana Cameron
Digby, Attorney at Law by Jim Fusilli
Animal Rescue by Dennis Lehane

Best Fact Crime:
Columbine by Dave Cullen (Winner)
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn
The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston’s Racial Divide by Dick Lehr
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti

Best Critical/Biographical:
The Lineup: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler (Winner)
Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James
Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King by Lisa Rogak
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
The Stephen King Illustrated Companion by Bev Vincent

Best Young Adult:
Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (Winner)
If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney
The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford
Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone by Dene Low
Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell

Best Juvenile:
Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn (Winner)
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity by Mac Barnett
The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour by Michael D. Beil
Creepy Crawly Crime by Aaron Reynolds
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer

Best Television Episode Teleplay:
Place of Execution by Patrick Harbinson, PBS/WGBH Boston
Strike Three by Steven Kane, The Closer
Look What He Dug Up This Time by Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman, Damages
Grilled by George Mastras, Breaking Bad
Living the Dream by Clyde Phillips, Dexter

Ellery Queen Award:
Poisoned Pen Press (Barbara Peters & Robert Rosenwald)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award:
A Dreadful Day by Dan Warthman, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (Dell Magazines)

Raven Awards:
Mystery Lovers Bookshop, Oakmont, Pennsylvania
Zev Buffman, International Mystery Writers Festival

The Simon & Schuster – Mary Higgins Clark Award:
Awakening by S.J. Bolton (Winner)
Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof by Blaize Clement
Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron
Lethal Vintage by Nadia Gordon
Dial H for Hitchcock by Susan Kandel

If you would like to take a look at other Mystery Book Awards, click here.

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