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Luisa Buehler, Sarah Rayne, Rebecca Tope, & Leslie Wheeler… The Most Recent Authors Recommended to the Cozy Mystery Site…

First of all, thanks for all of your recommendations. I keep thinking that I will (at last!) catch up, but I still have a rather large number of authors who you all think belong on the site. I know that all of the authors who are recommended for the site are not Cozy mystery authors, but they are authors who other Cozy mystery readers think are really good.

The latest four mystery authors who I have (finally) put on the Cozy Mystery site are:

Luisa Buehler: Grace Marsden Mystery Series… Grace has obsessive/compulsive disorders which “help” her solve cold case mysteries…

Sarah Rayne: Rayne writes psychological thrillers, some of which look like they are quite “paranormal” to me…

Rebecca Tope: Cotswold Mystery Series… This British mystery series features a house-sitter. (Tope ghostwrote the mysteries which are the basis of the Rosemary and Thyme shows as well as two other mystery series: Den Cooper Mystery Series and Drew Slocombe Mystery Series.)

Leslie Wheeler: Living History Mystery Series… Wheeler has her Bachelor’s from Stanford in both English and history, and her Master’s in English from UC/Berkeley. She uses all of these degrees to write a mystery series which features an author of history textbooks.

Thanks (again) for all of the recommended authors!

Heat Wave by Richard Castle … or is it?!?

Hmmm… I should preface this by pointing out that I have not read Heat Wave…

As I have written before, I am a fan of the ABC show Castle. I found out about the work of actor Nathan Fillion when he was on Firefly, and have enjoyed watching him ever since. I think that his comedic timing is to be commended. He is able to be the funny character or the straight, dead-pan character with what appears to be the same ease. And, he is usually very self-deprecating… I don’t know why I find that so charming.

Several people have written to tell me that they got the book Heat Wave, which is “authored” by Richard Castle. Don’t get me wrong… but isn’t Richard Castle a fictitious character on a show called Castle?!? Yes, being a fan of the show, I can tell you that he is just that! A fictitious character on a show.

So, why is it that the book doesn’t list a ghost writer?

Personally, I would rather know who the person (#1) behind the person (#2) is. (You can substitute “ghost writer” for #1 and “fictitious character” for #2.)

I looked around on the internet hoping to find exactly who the author is, but was not able to come up with anything concrete. I did, however, find a lot of speculation. Here are a few of the names I found being tossed around as possibilities:

Stephen J. Cannell (True, he is a best selling author and creator of television shows…)
James Patterson (True, he’s another best selling author…)
Nathan Fillion (Isn’t he an actor?)
Oh, and did I mention Tom Straw?

Four New Mystery Book Authors Added to the Site: Carolyn Banks, Sharon Duncan, Cyril Hare, and Iris Johansen…

The four latest mystery book authors who have been recommended to me (to include on the site) are:

Carolyn Banks: She Rides, He Doesn’t Mystery Series… Banks is a competitive equestrian who writes this series about a sleuth who lives in the equestrian world…

Sharon Duncan: Scotia MacKinnon Mystery Series… Duncan, an ex-professor of both Spanish and Comparative Literature writes this series which takes place in the San Juan Islands of Washington…

Cyril Hare   Hare writes the Inspector Mallet Mystery Series and the Francis Pettigrew Mystery Series. Hare’s An English Murder (aka The Christmas Murder)  is one of my favorite British Cozy mystery Christmas books…

Iris Johansen: Eve Duncan Mystery Series… features a forensic sculptor. This is a thriller mystery series, not cozy…

January 2010 Mystery Book New Releases

The following mystery books will be released in January 2010:

M. C. Beaton: Death of a Valentine (This will be the 26th Hamish Macbeth Mystery Novel…)

Blaize Clement: Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs (This will be the 5th in the Dixie Hemingway Mystery Series…)

Shirley Damsgaard: The Seventh Witch (This will be the 7th in the Ophelia & Abby Mystery Series…)

Joan Hess: The Merry Wives of Maggody (This will be the 16th in the Arly Hanks/Maggody Mystery Series…)

Julie Hyzy: Eggsecutive Orders (This will be the 3rd in the White House Chef Mystery Series…)

Toni L. P. Kelner: Who Killed the Pinup Queen? (This will be the 2nd in the Where Are They Now? Mystery Series…)

Rebecca Kent (aka Kate Kingsbury): Murder Has No Class (This will be the 3rd in the Bellehaven House Mystery Series…)

G. M. Malliet: Death at the Alma Mater (This will be the 3rd in the St. Just Mystery Series…)

G. A. McKevett: Wicked Craving (This will be the 15th in the Savannah Reid Mystery Series…)

Kaye Morgan: Ghost Sudoku (This will be the 5th in the Sudoku Mystery Series…)

Alexander McCall Smith: The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (This will be the 5th in the 44 Scotland Street Series…. Not Mysteries…)

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