Here are some Fun Maryland Facts:

Maryland got its name from Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I.
The largest city is Baltimore, and the state capital is Annapolis.
State motto is “Manly Deeds, Womanly Words.”
State bird is the Baltimore Oriole.
State flower is the Black-eyed Susan.

Authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site and who feature Maryland locations in their books:

Kathy Aarons: Chocolate Covered Mystery Series

Ron & Janet Benrey: Pippa Hunnechurch Mystery Series

Helen Chappell: Sam & Hollis Mystery Series

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Victorian Village Mystery Series

Janet Evanovich: Barney Barnaby Mystery Series

A.L. Herbert: Mahalia Watkins Soul Food Mystery Series

Sasscer Hill: Nikki Latrelle Racing Mystery Series

Mary Ellen Hughes: Craft Corner Mystery Series

Mary Ellen Hughes: Maggie Olenski Mystery Series

Mary Ellen Hughes: Keepsake Cove Mystery Series

Laura Lippman: Tess Monaghan Mystery Series

Marcia Talley: Hannah Ives Mystery Series

Maggie Toussaint: Cleopatra Jones Mystery Series

Please feel free to contact me if you see an author from the Cozy Mystery Site who belongs on this list, or if you have any comments.

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Here are some Fun Iowa Facts:
State capital is Des Moines.
State bird is the Eastern Goldfinch
State flower is the Wild Prairie Rose.
State motto is “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.”
Iowa gets its name from the French word that was used to describe the region’s Bah-kho-je Indian tribe.

Authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site and who feature Iowa locations in their books:

Barbara Allan (aka Barbara & Max Allan Collins): Trash ‘n’Treasures Mystery Series…

Kathleen Bacus: Tressa Jayne Turner Mystery Series…

Shirley Damsgaard: Ophelia & Abby Mystery Series…

Maddy Hunter: Passport to Peril Mystery Series…

Leslie Langtry: Merry Wrath Mystery Series…

Fay Risner: Amazing Gracie Mystery Series…

Please feel free to contact me if you see an author from the Cozy Mystery Site who belongs on this list, or if you have any comments.

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Here is the last part of the three-part theme which includes Cozy Mystery Site Authors whose last names begin with M – W. These Cozy Mystery Authors write mystery series which have sleuths who happen to be authors. The three parts of this theme only include authors who are on the Cozy Mystery Site…

Anna Maclean (aka Jeanne Mackin): Louisa May Alcott Mystery Series is one of the series that feature a real person (in this case an author) as its sleuth…

Mary Jane Maffini: Fiona Silk Mystery Series has a romance novelist…

Liesa Malik: Daisy Arthur Mystery Series has a hopeful romance writer…

Valerie Malmont: Tori Miracle is an author of horror in the Tori Miracle Mystery Series…

Sharyn McCrumb: Jay Omega Mystery Series features an author of science fiction…

Hope McIntyre: Lee Bartholomew Mystery Series features a London ghostwriter…

Annette Meyers (aka “1/2 of” Maan Meyers): Olivia Brown Mystery Series has a 1920s poet…

Kasey Michaels: Maggie Kelly Mystery Series features a romance turned mystery author…

J. J. Murphy: Algonquin Round Table Mystery Series features the poet/writer Dorothy Parker…

Kris Neri: Tracy Eaton Mystery Series has an author of mysteries…

Denise Osborne: Queenie Davilov Mystery Series features a screenwriter in California…

Robin Paige (aka Susan Wittig Albert & Bill Albert): Kate Ardleigh Sheridan & Sir Charles Sheridan Mystery Series is a Victorian mystery series…

Linda Palmer: Daytime Mystery Series features a soap opera writer…

Orania Papazoglou (aka Jane Haddam): Patience Campbell McKenna Mystery Series features a crime author…

Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Mertz & Barbara Michaels): Jacqueline Kirby Mystery Series features an author of  romances…

Nancy Pickard: Marie Lightfoot Mystery Series features an author of true crime…

Ellery Queen: Ellery Queen Mystery Series features a New York author…

Lora Roberts: Liz Sullivan Mystery Series features a freelance author who lives out of her VW van…

Betty Rowlands: Melissa Craig Mystery Series features an author of crime…

Beth Sherman: Jersey Shore Mystery Series features a ghostwriter…

Clea Simon: Theda Krakow Mystery Series features a music writer and her cat…

Barbara Burnett Smith: Purple Sage Mystery Series features an author/reporter for a radio station…

Julie Smith: Talba Wallis Mystery Series AND Paul McDonald Mystery Series, one features a poet and the other a reporter/mystery author…

Veronica Stallwood: Kate Ivory Mystery Series features a history novelist…

J.B. Stanley: Collectibles Mystery Series has a writer for a magazine…

Noreen Wald (aka Nora Charles): Jake O’Hara Mystery Series features a ghostwriter…

Leslie Wheeler: Living History Mystery Series features a history textbook writer in the Boston area…

If I have missed any other Cozy Mystery Site Authors whose last names begin with M – Z, who belong on this list, please post a comment so that I can add the omission…

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