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Edie Claire, Elizabeth Dearl, Shelly Fredman, Paul Magrs… Four New Authors to the Cozy Mystery Site

I am trying to “play catch-up” and get more authors who you all have recommended posted onto the Cozy Mystery Site. Here are the latest four authors who readers of the site have suggested. Hopefully you will be able to find a few who you think match your reading preferences!

Edie Claire: The Leigh Koslow Mystery Series also seems like it could be named the “Never…” series. Each book’s title starts with the word “Never” and is about an advertising copywriter in Pennsylvania who also sleuths… 

Elizabeth Dearl: Dearl is an ex-policewoman who writes the Taylor Madison Mystery Series which features a Texas author/sleuth…  

Shelly Fredman: Fredman is an elementary teacher who writes the Brandy Alexander Mystery Series features a journalist who lives in Philadelphia, who is able to solve mysteries while covering the story…       

Paul Magrs: Magrs, a British professor of Creative Writing, writes the (British) Brenda & Effie Mystery Series. The series involves two best friends who involve themselves in supernatural investigations…

Jennie Bentley, Gail Bowen, Mindy Starns Clark, Ruth Dudley Edwards : Four New Cozy Mystery Site Authors

Here are the four latest author additions to the Cozy Mystery Site. All four of them have been recommended by Cozy Mystery Site Readers:

Jennie Bentley writes the Do It Yourself Mystery Series which features Avery Marie Baker, a New York professional house renovations expert.

Gail Bowen is a professor of English in Canada who writes the Joanne Kilbourn Mystery Series  which has, as its sleuth, a Canadian professor

Mindy Starns Clark  writes two inspirational mystery series: the Million Dollar Mystery Series and the Smart Chick Mystery Series.

Ruth Dudley Edwards became a civil servant in London and a freelance writer after finishing graduate school at Cambridge. Edwards writes the Robert Amiss Mystery Series which features a retired civil servant in England.

2008 Agatha Awards… Finally Posted!

Finally! I just posted the Agatha Award Nominees for 2008, and there are a lot of our favorite Cozy Mystery Authors on the lists of the wonderful nominated authors and books. I was surprised to see that I already had pages for all of the five Best First Novels‘ authors! (Wow! I had first heard of them from Cozy Mystery site readers’ recommendations.)

It didn’t surprise me that I already had pages for the five authors of the five Best Novels‘, though. They are some of the most popular authors in the Cozy Mystery genre.

Here is the complete list of the 2008 Agatha Award nominees. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!!

(The winners will be announced at the 2009 Malice Domestic convention – at the beginning of May.)

Mystery Books’ Covers… Part 3 (Final)

This should (finally!) finish my verbal “meandering” regarding the:
Do you think that you can judge a (Cozy Mystery) book by its cover?

Bright, Bold Covers: These, as well as the idyllic setting covers, are the types of mystery book covers that most capture my attention. I simply like them, and prefer it when they give us a hint about the type of Cozy Mystery the book is going to be. The artists’ delightful, bright renditions of the mysteries reach out and definitely grab my attention.

Covers with Photographs: There are also mysteries that show still pictures of a scene. Most of the Cozy Mystery books I am familiar with don’t tend to have photographs on their covers, they usually grace the covers of true crime and harder mysteries. Mysteries with photographed covers don’t capture my attention while browsing, but I’m sure that I have read many of them.

There are probably many other types of book covers out there that are gracing our Cozy Mystery novels. And, as with all things, different people have different tastes. Perhaps the next time you are deciding on a new author to start reading, you will notice yourself seeing what role the author’s book covers play in your decision to either read or pass on that author’s novels.

Here are the other two parts of this theme:

Mystery Books’ Covers Part 1

Mystery Books’ Covers Part 2

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