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Mystery Books that Take Place in Nevada…

October 13, 2013

Here are some fun Nevada facts:
The state capital is Carson City.
The largest city is Las Vegas.
State motto is “All for our country.”
State nickname is the Silver State and/or the Sagebrush State .
State flower is the Sagebrush.
State bird is the Mountain Bluebird.
State animal is the Desert Bighorn Sheep.
A bill was passed in 1931 legalizing gambling in the state of Nevada. In 1899 “Liberty Bell” was invented. It was the slot machine upon which all slot machines were based.

Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site who feature Nevada locations in their books:

Rita Mae Brown: Mags & Baxter Mystery Series – Mags moves to her great aunt’s ranch with her dachshund, Baxter, and solves crimes.

Kathi Daley: TJ Jensen Paradise Lake Mystery Series

Carole Nelson Douglas: Midnight Louie & Temple Barr Mystery Series – Midnight Louie is a sleuthing tomcat.

L.C. Hayden: Dan Springer Mystery Series – Dan is a magazine author who also investigates (and solves) crimes.

Perri O’Shaughnessy: Nina Reilly Mystery Series – Nina is a lawyer who sleuths in Lake Tahoe.

Karen E. Olson: Tattoo Shop Mystery Series – Brett Kavanaugh runs a tattoo shop and puts her stamp on crime!

Diane Vallere: Costume Shop Mystery Series

Sue Owens Wright: Beanie & Cruiser Mystery Series – Elsie “Beanie” MacBean is a freelance writer and member of the Washoe Tribe. She and her Basset Hound, Cruiser, sleuth in Lake Tahoe.

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

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Mystery Books that Take Place in Wisconsin…

October 11, 2013

Here are some fun Wisconsin facts:
The state capital is Madison.
The largest city is Milwaukee.
State motto is “Forward.”
State nickname is the Badger State.
State flower is the Wood Violet.
State bird is the Robin.
State animal is the White-tailed Deer.
Wisconsin has 7,446 rivers and streams!

Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site who feature Wisconsin locations in their books:

Allyson K. Abbott (aka Annelise Ryan & Beth Amos): Mack’s Bar Mystery Series – Mackenzie “Mack” Dalton is the owner of a bar who serves up justice.

Laura Alden: PTA Mystery Series – Beth Kennedy is the owner of a children’s bookstore.

Sandra Balzo: Maggy Thorsen Mystery Series – Maggy is a woman who runs her own coffee shop while solving crimes.

Susan Bernhardt: Kay Driscoll Mystery Series – Kay Driscoll is a retired nurse who volunteers at the local free clinic.

Ginger Bolton (aka Janet Bolin): Deputy Donut Mystery Series – Emily Westhill runs a donut shop along with her retired chief of police dad and her Tabby cat, “Deputy Donut” >>> in Wisconsin.

Christine DeSmet: Fudge Shop Mystery Series – Ava Oosterling is the owner of a copper-kettle fudge shop who sleuths while sharing space in her grandpa’s bait shop.

Kathleen Ernst: Chloe Ellefson Mystery Series – Chloe is the curator of a living history museum in Wisconsin during the 1980s.

Victoria Houston: Loon Lake Fishing Mystery Series – Lewellyn Ferris is the police chief who enjoys fly fishing while thinking up whodunnit.

Mary Grace Murphy: Noshes Up North Mystery Series – Nell Bailey is a retired turned food blogger who lives in Wisconsin.

Hannah Reed (aka Deb Baker): Queen Bee Mystery Series – Story Fischer manages her bees while also managing to solve mysteries.

Annelise Ryan (aka Allyson K. Abbott & Beth Amos): Mattie Winston Mystery Series – Mattie is an ex-nurse who currently serves as a deputy coroner, which comes in handy in her investigations.

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Cozy Mysteries Recommendations – August 2013

August 26, 2013

Today is the first day of school for our school district. Unbelievable! It is just so hard to believe that fall will officially begin in less than a month (September 22). I am getting a little antsy to put my fall theme knick-knacks out on my desk so that I know it will officially be the time of year when the leaves are supposed to be turning different hues of golds and coppers. Good grief, living here in San Antonio I really miss my seasons!

Getting back to the purpose of this entry: It is time to post our August 2013 Cozy Mysteries Recommendations. I am going to begin with my current book’s author, Margaret Grace. (I’m reading her Halloween mystery, Monster in Miniature. I just could not wait until next month!)

Margaret Grace (aka Camille Minichino & Ada Madison) writes the Miniature Mystery Series.  I started reading Grace’s books after I finished reading Minichino’s Periodic Table Mystery Series. (I should probably explain that her “real name” is Camille Minichino.)

I find Grace (I’ll refer to her as Grace, since it is “her” series I am currently reading) to be a no-nonsense author. By this I mean that she doesn’t dilly-dally with stupid sleuths doing stupid things in stupid plots. Hmmm, I guess that doesn’t explain it either. I mean that her sleuths are very smart women. These women are not shrinking violets in any manner. They are strong women, with definite purposes in life.

Grace has the ability to write the way I think. That probably doesn’t make a lot of sense, but what I mean is both the plot and the dialog in her books ring true. (For those of you who don’t like swearing, you’ll be glad to know that Grace doesn’t have to rely on it to get her point across.)

I am also going to include two other authors who I wrote an entry about very recently: Hazel Holt and Spencer Quinn. (This link will take you to my entry which explains why I enjoy them.)

Please tell us about the one Cozy Mystery (or possibly more than one) that you read during August. These should be books that you think the rest of us simply have got to know about. Please include why you enjoyed each book so that we can read your reason and then determine if it sounds like a good book for us to try reading.

[As usual, I ask that you don’t tell us about the books you read that you didn’t like.]

[Also, if you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to their page on the Cozy Mystery site. Their page has all of the author’s books listed chronologically.]

What Cozy Mystery book (or author) have you read during August 2013, and why did you enjoy it (or him/her)?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read this past month:

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series

Connie Archer: Soup Lover’s Mystery Series

C.A. Belmond: Penny Nichols Mystery Series 

Annette Blair: Vintage Magic Mystery Series

Melissa Bourbon (aka Misa Ramirez): Magical Dressmaking Mystery Series

Rhys Bowen: Royal Spyness Mystery Series

Susan Boyer: Lowcountry Bombshell (reportedly not a Cozy)

Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Gourmet De-Lite Mystery Series

Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series

J.J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & Ellie Grant): Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mystery Series

Shelley Costa: Miracolo Mystery Series

Ellen Crosby: Multiple Exposure (Sophie Medina Mystery Series)

Diane Mott Davidson: Goldy Bear Mystery Series

Julianna Deering: Rules of Murder (Drew Farthering Mystery Series)

Gale Deitch: A Fine Fix (Trudie Fine Mystery Series)

Ilsa Evans: Nefarious Doings (Nell Forrest Mystery Series)

Jimmie Ruth Evans (aka Miranda James, Honor Hartman, & Dean James): Trailer Park Mystery Series

Earlene Fowler: Ruby McGavin Series (reportedly not a mystery)

Margaret Grace (aka Camille Minichino & Ada Madison): Miniature Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher Mystery Series

Elly Griffiths: Ruth Galloway Mystery Series (The Crossing Places – book 1 & Dying Fall – book #5 )

Rosemary Harris: Dirty Business Mystery Series

Hazel Holt: Mrs. Malory Mystery Series

Jerusha Jones: Imogene Museum Mysteries (Rock Bottom – book #1)

Amanda Lee (aka Gayle Trent): Embroidery Mystery Series 

Sherry Lewis(aka Jacklyn Brady): Fred Vickery Mystery Series

Lisa Lutz: Izzy Spellman Mystery Series

Karen MacInerney: Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series

Charlotte MacLeod (aka Alisa Craig): Peter Shandy Mystery Series

Susan Elia MacNeal: Maggie Hope Mystery Series

Molly MacRae: Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Hat Shop Mystery Series

Judy Nickles: The Bogus Biker (Penelope Pembroke Mysteries Series)

Gigi Pandian: Artifact (Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Series)

Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams): Chet and Bernie Mystery Series

Eve K. Sandstrom (aka JoAnna Carl): Down Home Mystery Series

Maggie Sefton: Molly Malone Mystery Series

Shirley Tallman: Death on Telegraph Hill (Sarah Woolson Mystery Series)

Gayle Trent (aka Amanda Lee): Daphne Martin Cake Mystery Series

Victoria Thompson: Gaslight Mystery Series

Patricia Wentworth: Miss Silver Mystery Series

Lauren Willig: Pink Carnation Mystery Series

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Authors Similar to M.C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney) …

August 21, 2013

I have received several letters asking me if I would do an “Authors Similar to M.C. Beaton” theme. I have tried to come up with the beginning of a list of authors who write similarly to M.C. Beaton. Here are some of the authors who I think might fit the bill. It would be great if you all would suggest some authors, whom you think other Cozy Mystery readers could read when they run out of M.C. Beaton’s mysteries.

Authors Who Are Similar to M.C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney):

Cathy Ace: WISE Enquiries Agency Mystery Series

Rhys Bowen: Constable Evan Evans Mystery Series

Simon Brett: Fethering Mystery Series & Mrs. Pargeter Mystery Series

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Msytery Series

Dorothy Cannell: Ellie Haskell Mystery Series

Laura Childs: Cackleberry Club Mystery Series

Cleo Coyle: Coffee House Mystery Series

Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin Mystery Series

Carola Dunn: Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series

Janet Evanovich: Stephanie Plum Mystery Series 

Carolyn Hart: Henrie O Mystery Series

Carolyn Hart: Death on Demand

Joan Hess: Maggody Mystery Series

Hazel Holt: Mrs. Malory Mystery Series

Betty Rowlands: Melissa Craig Mystery Series

Elizabeth Spann Craig: Myrtle Clover Mystery Series

Patricia Sprinkle: Thoroughly Southern Mystery Series

Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to M. C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney), and I will add them to the list.

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