Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV
This is an addition to my previous post about the books that are going to be (or have already been) released this month. Here is the link to the previous part of this list…
Alina Adams….. Skate Crime
Jill Churchill….. The Accidental Florist
Philip R. Craig & William G. Tapply….. Third Strike
Michael McGarrity….. Death Song
Also… I haven’t read this Christmas novel, but I found it and thought I would post it:
Jennifer Colt….. The Con Artist of Catalina Island: A McAfee Twins Christmas Novel
For those of you cozy mystery readers who enjoy “money matters”… the following three authors should be of interest to you. These mystery authors have chosen to give their main characters professions that you wouldn’t ordinarily associate with a cozy mystery sleuth…
Elizabeth Chamberlin has been both a teacher and an accountant, and now writes the Jane Mayhew Mystery Series, which happens to feature a retired accountant.
Connie Feddersen writes the Amanda Hazard Mystery Series which is set in Oklahoma and features a CPA/Sleuth.
Diane Kelly writes the Tara Holloway Death and Taxes Mystery Series, which is set in Texas, and features an IRS criminal investigation agent.
Connie Shelton writes the Charlie Parker Mystery Series which is based in New Mexico, and features an accountant.
Patricia Smiley‘s Tucker Sinclair Mystery Series features a financial management/advisor.
Jennifer Sturman‘s Rachel Benjamin’s Mystery Series has an investment banker as her sleuth.
Maggie Toussaint writes the Cleopatra Jones Mystery Series which features a golfing-accountant-sleuth and her side-kick, Madonna (a rather huge St. Bernard)…
It’s time for us (the cozy mystery readers) to get rid of our notions of knitting needles, mustache combs, and walking canes in lieu of calculators, pie charts, and index graphics!
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Happy Thanksgiving! (Actually, I am writing this the day before Thanksgiving… since I know I will be busy enjoying my family AND not enjoying the kitchen duties!)
Well, I am going to have to take a break from my Who Killed Father Christmas? novel (by Patricia Moyes) in order to read my Kissing Christmas Goodbye (by M. C. Beaton). I finally got my eighteenth Agatha Raisin novel, and I am so excited about reading it that I am almost giddy!
I know that I have written about this before, but here it is in a nutshell!
I first discovered M. C. Beaton through her Agatha Raisin books. I thought that they were absolutely delightful. In fact, I enjoyed the Agatha novels so much that I didn’t want to read the Hamish Macbeth series, in fear that I wouldn’t like it… since, how many authors can have two wonderful series going at the same time?!? Anyway…. I stayed with solely Agatha until after the (+/-)tenth book of the series. For some reason, I became a little disillusioned with some of Agatha’s antics. That is when I decided to try Beaton’s Hamish books. How glad am I that I did that!!!!?!!!?
I love Beaton’s Hamish series… I still continued to really like the eleventh through fourteenth Agatha novels, but, when Beaton dropped the "Agatha Raisin and the….." part of this series’ titles, I started thinking that at any time, I would stop reading the series… I thought that perhaps the series had seen its final chapters (as far as I was concerned). I got very tired of one of the characters…James (not to worry… I won’t go into details since I don’t want to write any spoilers. But, I can say that it was one of the few times in my reading experiences that I wished the earth was flat so that James could simply walk off the side… never to be heard of/from again!)
Anyway, I have continued with the Agatha Raisin series since I still enjoy the novels… but not as much as I used to. And, since I love holiday-theme cozy mysteries, I think that I am going to enjoy this book. The cover is absolutely beautiful, but I’m hoping that Agatha is back to her delightfully wicked ways!
On a totally different topic… My husband sent me a notice about Amazon having a day after Thanksgiving sale (better known as Black Friday Sale). We were totally unaware of that Amazon had a Black Friday Sale in the past….
In case you are looking for more books to join your other TBR books already at home>>> here are some “Mostly” Cozy Mystery Books that will be released during December 2007. I already have them posted on the site, but thought that maybe I should bring them to your attention… just in case you are a fan of one of the authors and think that you are caught up with all of their releases. (There aren’t too many authors with whom I am caught up!) I actually have two shelves full of my TBR books…. and that is two packed/jammed shelves. I have the books on each shelf crowded into three rows, one in back of the other. And, of course, since I am obsessed with order, they are alphabetized by author and then chronologically ordered by date of publication. I guess that it’s safe to say that in case of a quarantine (Do they still have those?), I am “set to go” with my reading!
Miranda Bliss….. Dead Men Don’t Get the Munchies
Sammi Carter….. Peppermint Twisted
Barbara Cleverly….. Folly du Jour
Kate Collins….. A Rose from the Dead
Lonnie Cruse….. Fifty-Seven Heaven
Monica Ferris: Knitting Bones
Lee Goldberg….. Mr. Monk in Outer Space
Sue Grafton….. “T” is for Trespass
Sarah Graves….. The Book of Old Houses
Ellen Hart….. The Mortal Groove
Kay Hooper….. Blood Dreams
Roberta Isleib….. Preaching to the Corpse
J. A. Jance….. Hand of Evil
Leslie Meier….. St. Patrick’s Day Murder
Charles Todd….. A Pale Horse
Marilyn Todd….. Blind Eye
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