Hmmm…. The title of this blog asks what the four following authors have in common >>> Well, the easiest answer for me to post is that all four of them have been recommended by several Cozy Mystery Site Readers for me to add to the site. Other than that… let’s see… They are all authors! But, they are not all mystery authors.

Bill Crider is a best-selling author who wrote his PhD dissertation about the hardboiled detective novel. He recently retired from being an English professor so that he could spend more of his time writing novels. He has several mystery series, including the Dan Rhodes Mystery Series. He co-authored the Stanley Waters Mystery Series with Willard Scott, the weatherman from the Today Show. And, Crider even authored a Wishbone book… a favorite for children.

Gail Fraser has her MBA and worked in corporate America before writing her Lumby Series. If you like Jan Karon’s Mitford Series, you might enjoy Fraser’s Lumby Series… which is not a mystery series.

Josi S. Kilpack  just started her Sadie Hoffmiller Culinary Mystery Series, which includes recipes. (She writes inspirational books.)

Lynda S. Robinson (aka Suzanne Robinson) has her PhD in Anthropology and writes the Lord Meren Series, which is set during ancient Egypt’s reign of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Lord Meren is the main investigator in the kingdom. (She also writes ancient Egyptian, Elizabethan, Victorian, and Civil War historical romance novels as Suzanne Robinson.) Because of her studies and field work, her historical novels (both her mysteries and her romances) are said to be very accurate portrayals of their given eras.

I am trying to “play catch-up” and get more authors who you all have recommended posted onto the Cozy Mystery Site. Here are the latest four authors who readers of the site have suggested. Hopefully you will be able to find a few who you think match your reading preferences!

Edie Claire: The Leigh Koslow Mystery Series also seems like it could be named the “Never…” series. Each book’s title starts with the word “Never” and is about an advertising copywriter in Pennsylvania who also sleuths… 

Elizabeth Dearl: Dearl is an ex-policewoman who writes the Taylor Madison Mystery Series which features a Texas author/sleuth…  

Shelly Fredman: Fredman is an elementary teacher who writes the Brandy Alexander Mystery Series features a journalist who lives in Philadelphia, who is able to solve mysteries while covering the story…       

Paul Magrs: Magrs, a British professor of Creative Writing, writes the (British) Brenda & Effie Mystery Series. The series involves two best friends who involve themselves in supernatural investigations…

Here are the four latest author additions to the Cozy Mystery Site. All four of them have been recommended by Cozy Mystery Site Readers:

Jennie Bentley writes the Do It Yourself Mystery Series which features Avery Marie Baker, a New York professional house renovations expert.

Gail Bowen is a professor of English in Canada who writes the Joanne Kilbourn Mystery Series  which has, as its sleuth, a Canadian professor

Mindy Starns Clark  writes two inspirational mystery series: the Million Dollar Mystery Series and the Smart Chick Mystery Series.

Ruth Dudley Edwards became a civil servant in London and a freelance writer after finishing graduate school at Cambridge. Edwards writes the Robert Amiss Mystery Series which features a retired civil servant in England.