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Cozy Mystery Authors with Coffeehouse and Tea Shop Settings, and Ice Cream Parlors, Too!

May 22, 2009

Here is a theme for all of you Cozy Mystery readers who like coffeehouse and tea house settings. I have only included authors who are found on this site. If you know of any other Cozy Mystery authors who use these settings, please post a comment.

Sandra Balzo: Maggy Thorsen Mystery Series… Maggy, and ex-PR executive, owns and runs the Uncommon Grounds coffeehouse in Wisconsin.

Lynn Cahoon: Tourist Trap Mystery Series… Jill Gardner owns the Coffee, Books, and More store in the California.

Laura Childs: Tea Shop Mystery Series… Theodosia Browning owns a Tea Room in Charleston.

Laura Childs: Cackleberry Club Mystery Series… The café is owned by single women (good friends) who not only sleuth, but also provide a nice little book corner and a knitting shop for their patrons.

Amanda Cooper (aka Victoria Hamilton & Donna Lea Simpson): Teapot Collector Mystery Series… Sophie Taylor works at her family-owned Victorian Tearoom in New York.

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberley): Coffeehouse Mystery Series… Clare Cosi manages the Village Blend Coffeehouse in Greenwich Village.

Yasemin Galehorn (aka India Ink): Chintz ‘n China Mystery Series… Emerald O’ Brien owns the Chintz ‘n China Tea Shop and she happens to be a psychic.

Terrie Farley Moran: Read ‘Em and Eat Mystery Series… Sassy Cabot and Bridgy Mayfield own this combination bookstore/café.

Wendy Lyn Watson writes the Mystery à la Mode Mystery Series which has an icecream parlor owner who is also a sleuth.

♦To access more Cozy Mysteries by Theme click on this link.♦

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June 2009 Mystery Book New Releases

May 21, 2009

The following mystery books will be released in June 2009:

Sandra Balzo: Brewed, Crude and Tattooed (This will be the 4th in the Maggy Thorsen Mystery Series…)

Sammi Carter: Sucker Punch (This will be the 5th in the Candy Shop Mystery Series…)

Clive Cussler & Paul Kemprecos: Medusa (This will be the 8th in the Numa Files Series…)

Mary Daheim: The Alpine Uproar (This will be the 21st in the Emma Lord Alpine Mystery Series…)

Eileen Davidson: Dial Emmy for Murder (This will be the 2nd in Soap Opera Mystery Series…)

Krista Davis: The Diva Takes the Cake  (This will be the 2nd in the Domestic Diva Mystery Series…)

Jeffery Deaver: Roadside Crosses (This will be the 2nd in the Kathryn Dance Mystery Series…)

Janet Evanovich: Finger Lickin’ Fifteen (This will be the 15th novel in the Stephanie Plum Mystery Series…)

Betty Hechtman: By Hook or By Crook (This will be the 3rd in the Crochet Mystery Series…)

James Patterson & Maxine Paetro: Swimsuit (This will be a Stand Alone…)

R. T. Raichev: The Little Victim (This will be the 4th in the Antonia Darcy & Hugh Payne Mystery Series…)

Maggie Sefton: Dropped Dead Stitch (This will be the 7th in the Knitting Mystery Series…)

Joanna Campbell Slan: Cut, Crop, & Die (This will be the 2nd in the Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-n-Craft Mystery Series…)

Robert K. Tanenbaum: Capture (This will be the 21st in the Butch Karp & Marlene Ciampi  Mystery Series…)

Victoria Thompson: Murder on Waverly Place (This will be the 11th in the Gaslight Mystery Series…)

♦To go back to the Cozy Mystery Book New Releases page click here♦

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2009 Edgar Awards…

May 10, 2009

There is no excuse for being so late in adding the 2009 Edgars (Edgar Allan Poe Awards) >>> I’m sorry it has taken me so long. But, better today than not at all!

 2009 Edgar Nominees:

Best Novel: 

Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (Winner)

Missing by Karin Alvtegen

Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno

The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes

The Night Following by Morag Joss

Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz

 Best First Novel:

The Foreigner by Francie Lin (Winner)

The Kind One by Tom Epperson

Sweetsmoke by David Fuller

Calumet City by Charlie Newton

A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock

Best Paperback Original:

China Lake by Meg Gardiner (Winner)

The Prince of Bagram Prison by Alex Carr

Money Shot by Christa Faust

Enemy Combatant by Ed Gaffney

The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli

Best Short Story:

Skinhead Central by T. Jefferson Parker  (Winner)

A Sleep Not Unlike Death by Sean Chercover

Skin and Bones by David Edgerley Gates

Scratch a Woman by Laura Lippman

La Vie en Rose by Dominique Mainard

Best Fact Crime:

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery and the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum  (Winner)

For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder That Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T.J. English

The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Hans van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

Best Critical/Biographical:

Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe (Winner)

African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Leonard Cassuto

Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction by David Geherin

The Rise of True Crime by Jean Murley

Best Juvenile:

The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Winner)

Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base 

Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff

The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow by Riford McKenzie

Cemetery Street by Brenda Seabrooke

Best Young Adult:

Paper Towns by John Green  (Winner)

Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd

The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo

Getting the Girl by Susan Juby

Torn to Pieces by Margot McDonnell

Best Play:

The Ballad of Emmett Till by Ifa Bayeza, Goodman Theatre, Chicago (Winner)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Arizona Theatre Company

Cell by Judy Klass, International Mystery Writers’ Festival

Best Television Episode Teleplay:

Prayer of the Bone… Patrick Harbinson, Wire in the Blood  (Winner)

Streetwise… Paul Grellong, Law & Order: SVU

Signature… Judith McCreary, Law & Order: SVU

You May Now Kill the Bride… Barry O’Brien, CSI: Miami

Burn Card… Ed Zuckerman & David Wilcox, Law & Order

Best Motion Picture Screen Play:

In Bruges… Martin McDonagh, Focus Features (Winner)

The Bank Job… Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais, Lionsgate

Burn After Reading… Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features

Tell No One… Guillaume Canet & Phillipe Lefebvre, based on the book by Harlan Coben, Music Box Films

Transsiberian… Brad Anderson & Will Conroy, First Look International

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award:

Buckner’s Error by Joseph Guglielmelli, Queen’s Noir, Akashic Books

Raven Awards:

Edgar Allan Poe Society, Baltimore, Maryland

Poe House, Baltimore, Maryland

The Simon & Schuster – Mary Higgins Clark Award:

The Killer’s Wife by Bill Floyd (Winner)

Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton

Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer

A Song for You by Betsy Thornton

The Fault Tree by Louise Ure

Grand Masters:

James Lee Burke

Sue Grafton

♦For more Mystery Book Awards, see main page.♦

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Win a (Free) Miniature Reading/Crime Scene!

May 8, 2009

I wrote about a new author (to me!) who I am now reading: Camille Minichino (who also writes under the pseudonym Margaret Grace) and was very surprised to get a “comment” reply offering a miniature reading/crime scene drawing for us to enter. For those of you who are already Minichino’s fans, you probably know that she makes miniatures as a hobby. So, not only is she a physicists with her Ph.D. from Fordham University, and a Cozy Mystery author, but she also is a miniaturist.

When you visit Minichino’s site, be sure you click on the “gallery” link at the bottom. You will be very impressed by her library of miniatures… I certainly am! They are truly wonderful, tiny/little scenes.

I just want to be sure that you all don’t miss out on this very generous offer… And, since I am never sure if people read all of the comments posted (I certainly do!), here is a portion of her comment:

“If it’s not too intrusive here, I’d like to offer a couple of presents to readers of this blog: a miniature reading/crime scene. Just use DANNA’S LIST as the subject if you’re interested, and send to camille@minichino.com by June 3. I’ll draw a name soon after. (If Danna is among the entries, I’ll send one to her separately!) I promise there will be NO other follow-up except notice of the next book if you choose.

For samples of scenes I’ve donated to auctions and shipped to other drawing winners, you can visit the gallery at dollhousemysteries.com. (This link no longer works.)

It’s always a great honor to hear from readers. Thanks for the chance to meet you this way.

Best, Camille/Margaret”

As a Cozy Mystery reader, I think that a miniature reading/crime scene would be a great addition to my home!  Good luck!

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