So it is at this time that I should be “wrapping up the month” with the July 2013 Cozy Mysteries Recommendations. (I am reading Honeybee Democracy, which is not a mystery – or fiction – so I can’t include it on our July 2013 Cozy Mysteries list. My husband recommended the book to me a while back, and I finally was in the mood to put aside my Cozy Mysteries to read it. I’m enjoying it a lot. Who would have thought honeybees could be so interesting?)
I know it’s getting tedious that I remind you every month that your recommendation should be the one Cozy Mystery you read during July that you want the rest of us to know about. (If you read more than just one Cozy Mystery that you loved, let us know about those.) Please tell us why you enjoyed the book (books). That way, the rest of us can decide whether your recommended Cozy Mystery is a book we would like to try.
[As usual, I ask that you don’t tell us about the books you read that you didn’t like.]
What Cozy Mystery book (or author) have you read during July 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:
Jeffrey Allen: Stay at Home Dad mysteries
Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow mysteries
Annie’s Attic mysteries by various authors
Connie Archer: Soup Lover’s mysteries
Gretchen Archer: Double Whammy (Davis May Crime Caper mysteries)
Donald Bain & “Jessica Fletcher”: Murder, She Wrote mysteries
Mignon F. Ballard: Miss Dimple mysteries
Sandra Balzo: Maggy Thorsen mysteries
Lorna Barrett (aka Lorraine Bartlett & L. L. Bartlett): Booktown mysteries
Jessica Beck: Donut Shop mysteries
Rhys Bowen: Lady Georgiana mysteries AND Molly Murphy mysteries
Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries mysteries
Duffy Brown: Consignment Shop mysteries
Lea Chan: The Chameleon Chase
Laura Childs: Tea Shop mysteries
Agatha Christie: Miss Marple mysteries
Jane K. Cleland: Josie Prescott Antiques mysteries
E. J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Haunted Guesthouse mysteries
Catherine Coulter: FBI Thriller mysteries
Philip R. Craig: Martha’s Vineyard mysteries
Bill Crider: Sally Good mysteries AND Carl Burns mysteries AND Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries
Mary Daheim: Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast mysteries
Elizabeth Daly: Henry Gamadge mysteries
Diane Mott Davidson: Goldy Bear mysteries
Alice Duncan: Daisy Gumm Majesty mysteries AND Mercy Allcutt mysteries
Chrystle Fiedler: Natural Remedies mysteries
“Jessica Fletcher” & Donald Bain: Murder, She Wrote mysteries
Amanda Flower: Appleseed Creek mysteries
Daryl Wood Gerber (aka Avery Aames): Cookbook Nook mysteries
Janice Hamrick: Jocelyn Shore mysteries
Carolyn Hart: Death on Demand mysteries
Betty Hechtman: Yarn Retreat mysteries
Sue Henry: Maxie & Stretch mysteries
Hazel Holt: Mrs. Mallory mysteries
Maddy Hunter: Passport to Peril mysteries
Julie Hyzy: Manor of Murder mysteries
Meg London (aka Peggy Cochran): Sweet Nothings Vintage Lingerie mysteries
Max McCoy: Of Grave Concern (Ophelia Wylde Paranormal mysteries)
Leslie Meier: Lucy Stone mysteries
Amy Metz: Goose Pimple Junction mysteries
Laura Morrigan: Woof at the Door (Call of the Wilde mysteries)
Liz Mugavero: Kneading to Die (Pawsitively Organic mysteries)
Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams): Chet and Bernie mysteries
Sara Rossett: On the Run mysteries
Hank Phillippi Ryan: Jane Ryland mysteries
Susan Santangelo: Baby Boomer mysteries
Maggie Sefton: Kelly Flynn Knitting mysteries
Susan Sundwall: Red Shoe Lace Killer
Denise Swanson: Deveraux’s Dime Store mysteries
Phoebe Atwood Taylor: Asy Mayo mysteries
Teresa Trent: Doggone Dead (Pecan Bayou mysteries)
Lea Wait: Shadows Antique Print mysteries
Betty Webb: Gunn Zoo mysteries AND Lena Jones mysteries (not Cozy)
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As we just discussed, this may be a rather impossible theme, but let’s go ahead and try to make up a list of some Romantic Cozy Mysteries that are 
I have had several comments and letters asking me to compile a list of Mysteries with Recipes. At first I thought this would be a rather daunting theme. I mean, I don’t read all of the authors who happen to have recipes in their Cozy Mysteries. Obviously I know which of my favorite authors include recipes in their mysteries, but what about those who I don’t read? And what about those authors of mysteries who I do read, but have forgotten they include recipes?