Here are the five newest author additions to the site. All of these authors have been recommended by site readers who believe they belong on the Cozy Mystery site:
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley writes the Cambridge Crime Mystery Series. Of course, it takes place in Cambridge (England, not Massachusetts) and features Dr. R.V. Davie, a retired university professor.
Vicki Doudera‘s Darby Farr Mystery Series has a sleuth who is a real estate agent. Darby lives on an island off of the coast of Maine. Doudera is also a real estate agent who, incidentally, lives in Maine.
Mary Anna Evans has degrees in both physics and engineering. She writes the Faye Longchamp Mystery Series, which features an archaeologist/sleuth who lived in Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Al Roker is the weatherman of a national morning show who occassionally does the cooking segments. Roker writes the Billy Blessing Mystery Series which features a professional chef who does the cooking segments on a national morning show. These books are supposed to be very funny…
Nancy Means Wright writes two very distinct mystery series. The Ruth Willmarth Mystery Series takes place in Vermont and features a single mother who is also a dairy farmer/sleuth. Her other series is the Mary Wollstonecraft Mystery Series, which features an English governess in 18th Century Ireland. Mary Wollstonecraft was actually a real person. (Wright also pens a children’s mystery series – the Northern Spy Club.)
I asked for help in compiling a list of Cozy Mystery authors who you all (site readers) would recommend to someone who is a NEW reader of Cozy Mystery books. I knew who I would recommend, but since everyone has different ideas about who is a great Cozy Mystery author and who is NOT (unfortunately, I have more than just a few of these!) I thought I could definitely use the help in identifying authors who would be good “starting authors” for NEW readers of the genre.