I don’t know if anyone noticed, but this is the first time that I put authors on the “New Mystery Book Releases” page before I actually had added the authors to the site. Right after I get your recommendations of authors to add to the site, I add their names to the list of all of the authors who I currently have on the site. Usually, I have posted the new recommended authors before they release a new book, but not this time… (This is probably way more information than you want to know!)

I have the new authors’ little “blips” on the “What’s New” page, so I won’t repeat myself. But, here are the three new authors to the site:

Annette Blair

Kate Carlisle

Joanne Clarey

I am trying to make my way through my list of recommended authors so that I can get them posted soon. I just hate starting the new year with a back log of things I didn’t get accomplished last year!

If you have visited the What’s New Page very recently on the Cozy Mystery Site, then you know that I just added three new authors to the site. I have not yet read any of the three authors, but hopefully I will soon be able to remedy that… And, if you are familiar to the site, then you probably already know that I get my new authors from site readers who think that the authors belong on the Cozy Mystery Site.

Linda Berry: The Trudy Roundtree Mystery Series takes place in a small town in Georgia and features the only woman on an all-male police squad.

Patricia Guiver: The Pet Detective Mystery Series involves a sleuth who gets help from her very loyal side-kick (Watson) a Doberman Pinscher.

Kasey Michaels: Kacey Michaels is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author and writes the Maggie Kelly Mystery Series.

Again, a big thanks to all of you who have recommended authors who you really enjoy reading, and who you want other cozy mystery readers to be able to enjoy. 

I thought that I would start the New Year by adding (to the Cozy Mystery Site) three mystery authors who have been recommended by site readers. All three wrote their mysteries many years ago. The three authors of whom I am speaking are (as the title says) Ellery Queen, John Creasy, and Leslie Charteris.

While many people recognize the name Ellery Queen, many people are also familiar with John Creasy and Leslie Charteris, possibly without knowing it. The reason for this is that Leslie Charteris writes (“wrote”>>> but I try to do all of my postings in present tense!) The Saint Mystery Series. Some of you may remember The Saint television series from many years ago. The Saint (aka Simon Templar) is a rather dashing/debonair millionaire, who not only is a sleuth, but also a thief!

As for John Creasy, he has many pseudonyms and even more mystery (and spy) series. The pseudonyms that I am posting on the site include: J. J. Marric, M. E. Cooke, Robert Caine Frazer, Anthony Morton, Gordon Ashe, Rodney Mattheson, Patrick Gill, Brian Hope, Colin Hughes, Anthony Morton, Charles Hogarth, Richard Martin, Kyle Hunt, & Abel Mann.

As I said, a lot of people are familiar with Ellery Queen. Something I wasn’t aware of though is that Ellery Queen is a pseudonym for two cousins who write (actually “wrote”) the books and stories together. Years ago, I would get confused wondering if Ellery Queen was the author or the character of the particular series. And then there is the magazine by that same name! (Ellery Queen is the name of the main character of the mystery series written by the cousins using the pseudonym Ellery Queen… which a lot of times appears in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine!)