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May 2010 Mystery Book New Releases

April 17, 2010

The following mystery books will be released in May 2010:

Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Death Threads (This will be the 2nd in the Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series…)

Bill Crider & Clyde Wilson: Mississippi Vivian (This will be the 2nd in the Ted Stephens Series…)

Clive Cussler: The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy (This will be a Stand Alone for children…) (Another  very successful mystery author for adults has written a novel for children. I know I have written – many times – about how great I think this is!)

Denise Dietz: Soap Bubbles (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Earlene Fowler: State Fair (This will be the 14th in the Benni Harper Mystery Series…)

Carolyn Haines: Delta Blues (This will be a Stand Alone Anthology, edited by Carolyn Haines…)

Charlaine Harris: Dead in the Family (This will be the 10th in the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery Series…)

L. C. Hayden: When Death Intervenes (This will be the 5th in the Harry Bronson Mystery Series…)

Elise Hyatt: French Polished Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Daring Finds Mystery Series…)

Joyce & Jim Lavene: A Timely Vision (This will be the 1st in the NEW Missing Pieces Mystery Series…)

Donna Leon: A Question of Belief (This will be the 19th in the Guido Brunetti Mystery Series…)

Amy Myers: Tom Wasp and the Newgate Knocker (This will be the 2nd in the Tom Wasp Mystery Series…)

Robert B. Parker: Blue-Eyed Devil (This will be the 4th in the Virgil Cole Western Series…)

Nancy Pickard: The Scent of Rain and Lightning (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Ann Purser: The Hangman’s Row Enquiry (This will be the 1st in the NEW Ivy Beasley Mystery Series…)

Joanna Campbell Slan: Photo, Snap, Shot (This will be the 3rd in the Kiki Lownstein Scrap-n-Craft Mystery Series…)

Leann Sweeney: The Cat, the Professor and the Poison (This will be the 2nd in the Cats in Trouble Mystery Series…)

Elaine Viets: Half-Price Homicide (This will be the 9th in the Dead End Job Mystery Series…)

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J. B. Stanley (aka Jennifer Stanley) A New Favorite Mystery Author for Me!

April 14, 2010

Well, I am off of the “catch-up-with-all-my-favorite-Cozy-mystery-authors” bandwagon, and it’s only April! Some of you may remember that I set a goal at the beginning of the year to read through all of my favorite authors so that I could enjoy their new mystery books as they published them. That goal has flown with the wind!

Instead of enjoying my favorite Cozy mystery authors, I am finding myself enjoying NEW Cozy mystery authors. The latest addition to my new list is J. B. Stanley (aka Jennifer Stanley).

I just started her (new to me) Supper Club Mystery Series, and I am finding myself really looking forward to those quiet times during the day when I can get some reading done. I have tried a few other new (to me) authors recently, and found myself struggling to get to page 100 of their books, which is the (absolute!) most I “make” myself read a book that I am not enjoying. Now that it is taking me longer and longer to read books these days, I simply do not want to waste my time reading books I don’t enjoy…

Anyway, Carbs & Cadavers is the first in J. B. Stanley‘s Supper Club mystery series, and I am absolutely loving it. It has a lot of Cozy characteristics: small town where everyone seems to know each other, non-police main character, no gruesome details or explicit adult situations, author’s command of the language (making it unnecessary to need to use profanity to get across strong emotions), and main characters with whom I would enjoy spending time. It also has something which very much appeals to me: the main characters don’t all have long, unruly, beautiful, auburn tresses, and they aren’t (unbeknownst to them only!!!) beautiful people with perfect bodies.

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Janie Bolitho, Amanda Flower, Maria E. Schneider, & Paige Shelton… Mystery Book Authors…

April 9, 2010

The four newest mystery book authors to be added to the Cozy Mystery site are:

Janie Bolitho: Bolitho writes two British mystery series. The Rose Trevelyan series features a Cornish countryside artist who just happens to be a sleuth, and the Ian Roper series features a chief inspector.

Amanda Flower: Flower, a college librarian, writes the India Hayes mystery series which features a college librarian who happens to sleuth.

Maria E. Schneider has written three Stand Alone mysteries. Two of Schneider’s mysteries combine sci-fi/fantasy elements with the mysteries. (Expect to see a little romance thrown in, also!) 

Paige Shelton: Shelton writes the Farmer’s Market Mystery Series which features Becca Robins, a farm owner who makes jams and preserves, when she’s not out solving mysteries.

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Teachers as the Main Sleuths in Mystery Books…

March 27, 2010

I decided to make the Teachers as Sleuths theme a while ago, during the beginning of the school year. But, I got side-tracked (again!) This theme includes the mystery authors who are included on the Cozy Mystery Site… (Obviously, this theme entry does not include all of the mystery books which have teachers as the primary sleuths.)

Teachers as the Primary Sleuths from mystery books found on the Cozy Mystery site:

Judith Arnold: Lainie Lovett Still Kicking Mystery Series – Grade School Teacher

Donald Bain (& “Jessica Fletcher”): Murder She Wrote Mystery Series – Retired English teacher

Tace Baker (aka Edith Maxwell): Speaking of Mystery Mystery Series – Linguistics Professor

Mignon F. Ballard: Miss Dimple Mystery Series – 1st Grade Teacher

Jo Bannister: Brodie Farrell Mystery Series – Math Teacher

Maggie Barbieri: Murder 101 Mystery Series – English Professor

Laurien Berenson: Melanie Travis Mystery Series – Special Education Teacher

Joan Blacher: Ardis Jensen Mystery Series – Ex University Counselor

Alice Boatwright: Ellie Kent Mystery Series – English Professor

J.S. Borthwick: Deane & McKenzie Mystery Series – English Professor

Gail Bowen: Joanne Kilbourn Mystery Series – Poly-Sci Professor

Julia Buckley: Teddy Thurber Mystery Series – English Teacher

Heron Carvic: Miss Seeton Mystery Series – Retired Art Teacher

Sarah Caudwell: Hilary Tamar Mystery Series – Law Professor

Hampton Charles: Miss Seeton Mystery Series – Retired Art Teacher

Erika Chase: Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery Series – Reading Specialist

Anna Clarke: Paula Glenning  & James Goff Mystery Series – Professors

Melissa Cleary: Dog Lover’s Mystery Series – Film Studies Professor

V. C. Clinton-Baddeley: Cambridge Crime Mystery Series – Retired Professor

Elizabeth Spann Craig (aka Riley Adams): Myrtle Clover Mystery Series – Retired Octogenarian

Hamilton Crane (aka Sarah J. Mason): Miss Seeton Mystery Series – Retired Art Teacher

Bill Crider: Sally Good Mystery Series – English Professor AND Carl Burns Mystery Series – English Professor

Edmund Crispin: Gervase Fen Mystery Series – English Professor

Amanda Cross: Kate Fansler Mystery Series – English Professor

Kathi Daley: TJ Jensen Paradise Lake Mystery Series – High School

Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin Mystery Series – Retired Teacher

Lesley A. Diehl: Laura Murphy Mystery Series – Psychology Professor

Joanne Dobson: Karen Pelletier Mystery Series – English Professor

Jan Dunlap: Bob White Birder Murder Mystery Series – High School Counselor

Anthony Eglin: English Garden Mystery Series – Retired Botany Professor

Aaron Elkins: Gideon Oliver Mystery Series – Anthropology Professor

Honora Finkelstein & Susan Smily: Ariel Quigley Mystery Series – English Teacher

“Jessica Fletcher” & Donald Bain: Murder She Wrote Mystery Series – Retired English Teacher

Linda French: Professor Teodora Morelli Mystery Series – History Professor

P. L. Gaus: Ohio Amish Mystery Series – History Professor

Anne George: Southern Sisters Mystery Series – Retired English Teacher

Alexia Gordon: Gethsemane Brown Mystery Series – Music Teacher in Ireland

Paula Gosling: Stryker & Trevorne Mystery Series – English Professor

Margaret Grace: Miniature Mystery Series – Retired English Teacher

Elissa D. Grodin: Edwina Goodman Mystery Series – Physics Instructor

Janice Hamrick: Jocelyn Shore Mystery Series – High School

Maria Hudgins: Dotsy Lamb Travel Mystery Series – Retired History Professor

Mary Ellen Hughes: Maggie Olenski Mystery Series – Math Teacher

Jane Isenberg: Bel Barrett Mystery Series – English Professor

Abigail Keam: Josiah Reynolds, Beekeeper Mystery Series – Ex-History Professor

Diana Killian: Poetic Death Mystery Series – Teacher

Cynthia Kuhn: Lila Maclean Academic Mystery Series – English Professor

Jim Lacey: Ryan/Lehrer Mystery Series – History Professor

Jane Langton: Homer Kelly Mystery Series – History Professor

Marilyn Levinson (aka Allison Brook): Golden Age of Mystery Book Club Mystery Series – Professor

Charlotte MacLeod (aka Alisa Craig): Peter Shandy Mystery Series – Botany Professor

Ada Madison (aka Camille Minichino & Margaret Grace): Sophie Knowles Mystery Series – Math Professor

Liesa Malik: Daisy Arthur Mystery Series – Retired Special Education Teacher

Sarah J. Mason (as Hamilton Crane): Miss Seeton Mystery Series – Retired Art Teacher

Sujata Massey: Rei Shimura Mystery Series – English Teacher

Ralph M. McInerny (aka Monica Quill): Notre Dame Mystery Series – Philosophy Professor

Tyora Moody: Eugeena Patterson Mystery Series – Retired Social Studies

Mary Grace Murphy: Noshes Up North Mystery Series – Retired Teacher

Tim Myers (aka Chris Cavender, Casey Mayes, Elizabeth Bright, & Melissa Glazer) Slow Cooker Mystery Series – Instructor of Slow Cooking Techniques

Clare O’Donohue: World of Spies Mystery Series – Hollis and Finn Larsson are college professors who assist Interpol in Ireland.

Bernadette Pajer: Professor Bradshaw Mystery Series – Electrical Engineering Professor

Stuart Palmer: Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series – Retired Teacher

Leigh Perry (aka Toni L.P. Kelner): Family Skeleton Mystery Series – English Professor

Cate Price: Deadly Notions Mystery Series – Retired Teacher

Gillian Roberts: Amanda Pepper Mystery Series – English Teacher

Patricia Rockwell: Pamela Barnes, Acoustic Mystery Series –  Psychology Professor

Sarah R. Shaber: Professor Simon Shaw Mystery Series – History Professor

Catherine Shaw: Vanessa Duncan Cambridge Mystery Series – Teacher

Susan Smily & Honora Finkelstein: Ariel Quigley Mystery Series – English Teacher

Robert Spiller: Bonnie Pinkwater Mystery Series – High School Math Teacher

Sarah Stewart Taylor: Sweeney St. George Mystery Series – History Professor

Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mystery Series – School Social Worker

Margaret Truman: Smith & Reed Mystery Series – Law Professor

Ann Waldron: Princeton Murders Mystery Series – Writing Professor

Jill Paton Walsh: Imogen Quy Mystery Series – College Nurse

Livia J. Washburn: Fresh-Baked Mystery Series – Retired Teacher

Tracy Weber: Downward Dog Mystery Series – Yoga Instructor

Margaret Yorke: Dr. Patrick Grant Mystery Series – Professor

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