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Five New Mystery Authors to the Site: A. K. Arenz, Libi Astaire, Kristin Callender, Yvonne Montgomery, & L. R. Wright

Here is my latest batch of mystery book authors who you all have recommended for the site:

A.K. Arenz: Bouncing Grandma Mystery Series… Arenz is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers and writes this series which features Glory Harper…

Libi Astaire: Ezra Melamed Mystery Series… Astaire is a journalist who writes this mystery series which features a rich widower who is a benefactor of the Jewish community in Regency London…

Kristin Callender: Callender, a substitute teacher, had her first mystery novel published in 2008, and it revolves around a woman who finds out that her whole life has been based on a lie…

Yvonne Montgomery: Finny Aletter Mystery Series… Montgomery’s series features a stockbroker/sleuth…

L.R. Wright (aka Laurali R. Wright): The Karl Alberg Mystery Series features a Royal Canadian mounted policeman and then evolves into the Eddie (Edwina) Henderson Mystery Series which also features a Canadian mounted police…

October 2009 Mystery Book New Releases…

The following mystery books will be released October 2009:

A. K. Arenz: The Case of the Mystified M.D. (This will be the 2nd in the Bouncing Grandma Mystery Series…)

Donald Bain (& Jessica Fletcher): Murder She Wrote: A Fatal Feast (This will be the 32nd in the Murder She Wrote Mystery Series…) (This is a Thanksgiving-themed book…)

David Baldacci: True Blue (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Cynthia Baxter: Murder Had a Little Lamb (This will be the 8th in the Reigning Cats and Dogs Mystery Series…)

M. C. Beaton: There Goes the Bride (This will be the 20th in the Agatha Raisin Mystery Series…) (Actually September 29…)

JoAnna Carl (aka Eve K. Sandstrom): The Chocolate Cupid Killings (This will be the 9th in the Chocoholic Mystery Series…) (This will be a Valentine-themed book…)

Laura Childs: Tragic Magic (This will be the 7th in the Scrapbooking Mystery Series…)

Michael Connelly: Nine Dragons (This will be the 15th in the Harry Bosch Mystery Series…)

Patricia Cornwell: The Scarpetta Factor (This will be the 17th in the Kay Scarpetta Mystery Series…)

Deborah Crombie: Necessary as Blood (This will be the 13th in the Kincaid & James Mystery Series…)

Casey Daniels: Dead Man Talking (This will be the 5th in the Pepper Martin Mystery Series…)

James D. Doss: The Widow’s Revenge (This will be the 14th in the Charlie Moon Mystery Series…)

Monica Ferris: Blackwork (This will be the 13th in the Needlecraft Mystery Series…) (This is a Halloween-themed book…)

Sharon Fiffer: Scary Stuff (This will be the 6th in the Jane Wheel Mystery Series…) (This is a Halloween-themed book…)

Jessica Fletcher (& Donald Bain): Murder She Wrote: A Fatal Feast (This will be the 32nd in the Murder She Wrote Mystery Series…) (This is a Thanksgiving-themed book…)

Margaret Grace (aka Camille Minichino): Mourning in Miniature (This will be the 4th in the Miniature Mystery Series…)

Kerry Greenwood: Trick or Treat (This will be the 4th in the Corinna Chapman Mystery Series… It will be released in October in the USA)

Kerry Greenwood: Forbidden Fruit (This will be the 5th in the Corinna Chapman Mystery Series… Not released yet in the USA) (This is a Christmas-theme book…)

Gemma Halliday: Scandal Sheet (This will be the 1st in the NEW Hollywood Headlines Mystery Series…)

Charlaine Harris: Grave Secret (This will be the 4th in the Harper Connelly Mystery Series…)

Charlaine Harris: A Touch of Dead (This will include Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire stories…)

Carolyn Hart: Merry, Merry Ghost (This will be the 2nd in the Bailey Ruth Mystery Series…) (This is a Christmas-themed book…)

Reginald Hill: Midnight Fugue (This will be the 24th in the Dalziel & Pascoe Mystery Series…)

Elise Hyatt: Dipped, Stripped, and Dead (This will be the 1st in the NEW Daring Finds Mystery Series…)

Susan Kandell: Dial H. for Hitchcock (This will be the 5th in the Cece Caruso Mystery Series…)

Jonathan Kellerman: Evidence (This will be the 25th in the Alex Delaware Mystery Series…)

Debbie Macomber: That Holiday Feeling: Silver Bells (Not a mystery. This is a Christmas-themed book…)

Archer Mayor: The Price of Malice (This will be the 19th in the Joe Gunther Mystery Series…) (Actually Sept. 29…)

Ralph M. McInerny: Stained Glass (This will be the 28th in the Father Dowling Mystery Series…)

Marcia Muller: Locked In (This will be the 28th in the Sharon McCone Mystery Series…)

Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Cat Striking Back (This will be the 15th in the Joe Grey Mystery Series…)

Tamar Myers: The Witch Doctor’s Wife (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Katherine Hall Page: The Body in the Sleigh (This will be the 18th in the Faith Fairchild Mystery Series…) (This is a Christmas-themed book…)

Robert B. Parker: The Professional (This will be the 37th in the Spencer Mystery Series…)

Anne Perry: A Christmas Promise (This will be the 7th of Anne Perry’s Victorian Christmas series…)

Anne Perry: Silent Nights (This will include two previously released Anne Perry Victorian Christmas mysteries: A Christmas Beginning and A Christmas Grace…)

Ruth Rendell: The Monster in the Box (This will be the 23rd in the Inspector Wexford Mystery Series…)

Peter Robinson: The Price of Love and Other Stories (This will be a collections of stories…)

Livia J. Washburn: Huckleberry Finished (This will be the 2nd in the Delilah Dickinson Literary Tour Mystery Series…)

Wendy Lyn Watson: I Scream, You Scream (This will be the 1st in the NEW Mystery à la Mode Mystery Series…)

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Four New Authors to this Mystery Book Site: Evelyn David, Louise Ure, Katherine Valentine, & Penny Warner

Here are four new authors who have been recommended for the site. 

Evelyn David is the pseudonym for two authors, one with a degree in Biology and the other with a Political Science degree. As David, they write the Sullivan Investigations Mystery Series which features a divorcée mortician who sleuths with an ex-policeman and “Whiskey,”  his Irish Wolfhound…

Louise Ure is not a Cozy mystery book author. She writes psychological thrillers which take place in Arizona…

Katherine Valentine does not write mysteries, but instead is the author of the Dorsetville Series. Her books are inspirational…

Penny Warner writes the Connor Westphal Mystery Series which features a California newspaper publisher. Warner also wrote The Official Nancy Drew Handbook. Warner won the Agatha and Anthony Awards for Best Juvenile Mystery for Mystery of the Haunted Caves.

Dorothy Gilman and Other Mystery Books…

I got a letter on Sunday asking for some help finding mystery book authors who write in the same vein as Dorothy Gilman.

“…I came across your Cozy Mystery website and was hoping you could suggest authors you have read with a similar style to Dorothy Gilman’s Mrs. Pollifax series.”

I loved the Mrs. Pollifax character and found the mystery series to have a light comedic flare and would love to read more mystery books with this type of style.

Any suggestions you can give me you have read would be greatly appreciated.

First of all, I love the Emily Pollifax books by Dorothy Gilman. I spent MANY hours enjoying Mrs. Pollifax as she traveled from one exotic location to another… always wearing one of her exotic hats! My local library carried a lot of Gilman’s books in audio form… back when the audio books were cassettes, not CDs!

Back to the question at hand: Does anyone have any suggestions of authors who are similar to Dorothy Gilman? Some authors who come to my mind are:

Heron Carvic… Miss Seeton

Mignon F. Ballard… Augusta Goodnight

Jane Langton… Homer Kelly

P.S. >>> If you haven’t tried one of the Mrs. Pollifax books, do yourself a favor and try one. The series is without a doubt VERY Cozy!

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