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

Latest M. C. Beaton: Hamish Macbeth

I just got the latest M. C. Beaton novel and I can’t wait to start reading it… Death of a Gentle Lady… I always look forward to Beaton’s Hamish novels. (I’m not quite as crazy about Beaton’s Agatha Raisin books. They  just aren’t holding my attention as well as they did when she first started the series.)

And, as if Death of a Gentle Lady isn’t cozy enough…  My husband and I are re-watching the Miss Marple BBC shows with Joan Hickson. I hadn’t watched the shows for a few years, but after I wrote the blog about the shows, I decided it was time to get them out and re-watch them.  I am loving them (all over again!) I really can see why Agatha Christie thought Joan Hickson was the best choice to play Miss Marple… She is perfect. And, the scenery is absolutely beautiful… (When my husband and I finally start travelling, England is the destination highest on my list of places to visit.)

So, now I have one of my favorite cozy television shows to watch and one of my favorite author’s cozy mystery to read… Perfection! 

Even More New Authors on Cozy Mystery Site…

Well, what can I say? You all have let me know about some authors who look like they might make for some really good reading! I added six new authors to the site:

G. K. Chesterton wrote the classic Father Brown Mystery series of stories.

Michael Innes wrote the classic Scotland Yard Inspector Sir John Appleby Mystery Series from the 1930s to the 1980s.

Beth Groundwater writes a mystery series that takes place in beautiful Colorado Springs, where the sleuth owns a gift basket shop.

Terri Thayer writes two mystery series, one of which features a computer techie who inherits a quilt shop and a series (coming soon!) which features a rubber stamping sleuth.

Mary Saums writes two mystery series, one features two 60 something widows and the other revolves around a private investigator/backup singer in Nashville.

Arlene Sachitano has just started the quilting mystery series called Loose Threads.

New Authors to the Cozy Mystery Site:

I’m not sure if people who read this blog are aware of when I add new Cozy Mystery Authors to the site. I get most of my additions from readers of the site… When I first started this Cozy Mystery site, I only included the authors who I had actually read. Most of them were authors who I enjoyed reading, but there were a few who I had tried and hadn’t taken a liking to… I included them anyway. Just because I don’t particularly like an author’s style doesn’t mean that the author isn’t good. And, there are several very popular authors who I do not read… But, that’s another subject!

Anyway, the last few authors I included to the site are:

Sarah Andrews is a professional geologist who writes the Em Hansen and the Valena Walker Mystery Series, both of which have geologist sleuths…

Sarah Atwell writes the Glassblowing Mystery Series with Em Dowell as her sleuth…

D. B. Borton writes the Cat Caliban Mystery Series that features a 60s something sleuth… (As Della Borton she writes the Movie Lovers’ Mystery Series)…

Meg Cabot writes the Heather Wells Mystery Series which features a former teenage idol who has changed professions and is now a private investigator…

Margaret Coel writes the bestselling Wind River Mystery Series, set in the world of an Arapaho reservation in Wyoming…

Hannah Dennison is starting the new Vicky Hill Mystery Series which revolves around a journalist in a small town in England…

Denise Dietz  is the author of the Diet Club Mystery Series featuring a sleuth who is a group leader of a weight loss program…

Anthony Eglin writes the English Garden Mystery Series which features a professor of botany sleuth…

Melissa Glazer pens the Clay & Crime Series which has (for its sleuth) an owner of a pottery shop…

Brian Kavanagh writes the Belinda Lawrence Mystery Series which has a sleuth who leaves Australia to visit her great aunt and ends up inheriting a cottage in Bath…

Vicki Lane‘s Elizabeth Goodweather Mystery Series is set in North Carolina, where her sleuth owns a flower/herb farm…

Kathryn Lilley writes the Fat City Mystery Series with a main character who is a TV journalist, yet she just can’t seem to win the battle with the bulge…

Cricket McRae is the author of the Homecrafting Mystery Series which has a soap maker as its sleuth…

Louise Penny‘s Three Pines Mystery Series is set in Quebec with a chief inspector as its main character…

Joanna Campbell Slan will be writing the new Kiki Lowenstein Scrapbooking Mystery Series…

Veronica Stallwood writes the Kate Ivory Mystery Series set in Oxford, with an historical novelist as its sleuth…

Kathryn R. Wall writes the Bay Tanner Mystery Series which is set in the beautiful Hilton Head Island area…

Melinda Wells is just starting the Della Cooks Mystery Series… about a cooking sleuth…

Book Store Owner Mysteries (& Some Publishing Mysteries, TOO!)

Where would we (the readers of Cozy Mysteries) by without books stores or book publishers? My last blog was about our friends, the librarians. Today, my Cozy Mystery by Theme topic covers the realm of books, but not libraries…

Kathy Aarons: Chocolate Covered Mystery Series –  Michelle Serrano is the co-owner of Chocolates and Chapters, a combination bookstore and chocolate shop.

Victoria Abbott (Writing duo Mary Jane Maffini & daughter Victoria Maffini): Book Collectors Mystery Series, stars a researcher of rare mystery books who works for an eccentric collector.

Ellery Adams (aka J.B. Stanley, Jennifer Stanley, & early Lucy Arlington): Secret, Book & Scone Society Mystery Series – Nora Pennington owns the Miracle Books shop and is able to pick out just the right books for her clients who are in pain.

Laura Alden: The PTA Mystery Series features a sleuth who owns a children’s bookshop.

Lorna Barrett:  The Haven’t Got a Clue Mystery Series takes place in a bookstore of that same name.

Lawrence Block:  The Bernie Rhodenbarr Series features a book seller…

Ali Brandon (aka Diane A.S. Stuckart): The Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series which takes place in Brooklyn. Darla Pettistone and her cat, Hamlet, make a dynamic sleuthing duo.

V.M. Burns: Samantha Washington Bookshop Mystery Series – Samantha is an aspiring Cozy Mystery author who owns a book store on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Lynn Cahoon: The sleuth (Jill Gardner) owns the Coffee, Books, and More store in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series.

Kate Carlisle: The Bibliophile Mystery Series features a rare book expert.

Mary Daheim:  The Emma Lord Mystery Series features the owner/publisher of the local newspaper.

Kaitlyn Dunnett (aka Kathy Lynn Emerson): Deadly Edits Mystery Series features an editor who lives in the Catskills…

John Dunning:  The Cliff Janeway Series features a rare book expert.

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Magical Bookshop Mystery Series – takes place in an enchanted bookstore.

Carolyn G. Hart:  The Death on Demand Mystery Bookstore is the hub of this series.

Joan Hess:  Her Claire Malloy Series features a bookstore owner.

Julie Kaewert: Kaewert’s Booklover’s Series falls into the book publisher category perfectly.

Alice Kimberly (aka Cleo Coyle):  The Haunted Bookshop Mystery Series… Need I say more?

Maggie King: Book Group Mystery Series, which stars a romance author, who is the co-founder of a mystery book group.

Allison Kingsley (aka Kate Kingsbury & Rebecca Kent): The Raven’s Nest Bookshop Mystery Series takes place in Maine.

Katherine Lasky Knight: Her Calista Jacobs Mystery Series features a sleuth who is also a children’s book illustrator…

Richard and Frances Lockridge:  Their Mr. & Mrs. North Mystery Series involves publishing books.

Marianne Macdonald: Her Dido Hoare Mystery Series used to be called the Antiquanarian Book Mystery Series.

Molly MacRae: The Highland Bookshop Mystery Series stars the co-owner of a book store.

Evan Marshall: Jane Stuart & Winky Mystery Series… Jane is a literary agent.

Christine Matthews (w/Robert J. Randisi):  Owning a book store is central in the Gil and Claire Hunt Series.

Marlys Millhiser: Charlie Green Mystery Series (Charlie is a literary agent.)

Terrie Farley Moran: Sassy Cabot and Bridgy Mayfield own the Read ‘Em and Eat, which is a combination bookstore and café in the Read ‘Em and Eat Mystery Series .

There are also some anthologies out there which have books or simply put, the world of books as a theme to their stories:

Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini are the editors of Chapter & Hearse: Suspense Stories About the World of Books.

Secrets of Mary’s Bookshop – Mary owns Mary’s Mystery Bookshop

Cynthia Manson is the editor of Murder by the Book.

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