Here are some fun Montana facts:
The capital is Helena.
The largest city is Billings.
State motto is “Gold and Silver”
State nickname is the Big Sky Country.
State flower is the Bitterroot.
State bird is the Western Meadowlark.
State animal is the Grizzly Bear.
Montana has the greatest number of different mammal species in the USA.

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

Leslie Budewitz: Food Lovers’ Village Mystery Series

Rae Davies: Dusty Deals Mystery Series

Sharon Dunn: Bargain Hunters Mystery Series AND Ruby Taylor Mystery Series

Sandra West Prowell: Phoebe Siegel Mystery Series

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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Here are some fun Missouri facts:
The capital is Jefferson City.
The largest city is Kansas City.
State motto is “The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law”
State nickname is the Show Me State .
State flower is the White Hawthorn.
State bird is the Bluebird.
State animal is the Missori Mule.
Missouri (as well as Tennessee) is bordered by eight states.

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

Hannah Alexander: Hideaway Mystery Series

Jean Hager: Iris House Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series

Janis Harrison: Bretta Solomon Gardening Mystery Series

Shirley Kennett: P J Gray Mystery Series

Suzann Ledbetter: Hannah Garvey Mystery Series

Rett MacPherson: Torie O’Shea Mystery Series

Christine Matthews & Robert J. Randisi: Gil & Claire Hunt Mystery Series

Linda Rodriguez: Skeet Bannion Mystery Series

Paige Shelton: Country Cooking School Mystery Series

Joanna Campbell Slan: Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mystery Series

Lou Jane Temple: Heaven Lee Mystery Series

Elaine Viets: Mystery Shopper Mystery Series, Death Investigator Mystery Series, AND Francesca Vierling Mystery Series

Vineyard Quilt Mystery Series: Several authors write this series.

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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Who doesn’t like a restful, yet fun, traveling experience at sea?

Thank you to both Judith and BB for providing us with this great list of Mystery Books that Take Place on Cruise Ships.

This Cozy Mystery Cruise Ship Theme includes mystery books that take place at sea:

Cathy Ace
Cait Morgan Mystery Series
The Corpse with the Diamond Hand

Ellie Alexander (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley)
Bakeshop Mystery Series
A Crime of Passion Fruit

Arleen Alleman
Darcy Farthing Mystery Series
Currents Deep and Deadly
Currents of Vengeance

Conrad Allen (aka Edward Marston & Keith Miles)
Dillman Mystery Series
Murder on the Lusitania
Murder on the Mauretania
Murder on the Minnesota
Murder on the Caronia
Murder on the Marmora
Murder on the Salsette
Murder on the Oceanic
Murder on the Celtic

Steve Allen
Steve Allen Mystery Series
Murder on the Atlantic

Marian Babson
Death Sails at Midnight
Cruise of a Death Time

Donald Bain & “Jessica Fletcher”
Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series
Murder on the QE2
Panning for Murder
The Queen’s Jewels

Lorna Barrett (aka L.L. Bartlett & Lorraine Bartlett)
Booktown Mystery Series
Title Wave

K. K. Beck
Iris Cooper & Jack Clancy Mystery Series
Death in a Deck Chair

Mike Befeler
Paul Jacobson Geezer-Lit Mystery Series
Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder

Susan Bernhardt
Kay Driscoll Mystery Series
Paradise Can Be Murder

J.S. Borthwick
Deane & McKenzie Mystery Series
Bodies of Water
My Body Lies over the Ocean

Candy Calvert
Darcy Cavanaugh Cruise Mystery Series
Dressed to Keel
Aye Do or Die
Mai Tai to Murder

Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot Mystery Series
Death on the Nile

Carol Higgins Clark
Regan Reilly Mystery Series
Decked

Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark
Santa Cruise

Susan Rogers Cooper
Milt Kovak Mystery Series
Dark Waters

Susan Rogers Cooper
E. J. Pugh Mystery Series
Don’t Drink the Water

Maya Corrigan
Five-Ingredient Mystery Series
S’more Murders

Kathy Cranston
Bee’s Bakehouse Mystery Series
Cruises are Murder

Mary Daheim
Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series
Dead Man Docking

William Doonan
Henry Grave Msytery Series
Grave Passage
Mediterranean Grave
Grave Indulgence

Carola Dunn
Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series
To Davy Jones Below

Aaron Elkins
Alix London Mystery Series
A Cruise to Die For

“Jessica Fletcher” & Donald Bain
Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series
Murder on the QE2
Panning for Murder
The Queen’s Jewels

Shelley Freydont
Lindy Haggerty Mystery Series
High Seas Murder

Jeanne Glidewell
Ripple Effect Mystery Series
Rip Your Heart Out

Kerry Greenwood
Phrynne Fisher Mystery Series
Death by Water

Carolyn Hart
Death on Demand Mystery Series
Murder Walks the Plank

Carolyn Hart
Henrie O Mystery Series
Set Sail for Murder

Sue Henry
Alaska Mystery Series
Death Takes a Passage

Cheryl Hollon
Webb’s Glass Shop Mystery Series
Shattered at Sea

Maria Hudgins
Dotsy Lamb Travel Mystery Series
Death on the Aegean Queen

Maddy Hunter
Passport to Peril Mystery Series
Hula Done It?

J. A. Jance
J. P. Beaumont Mystery Series
Birds of Prey

R.T. Jordan
Polly Pepper Mystery Series
Set Sail for Murder

Sharon Kahn
Ruby, the Rabbi’s Wife Mystery Series
Don’t Cry for Me, Hot Pastrami

Joshua Kinser
Art Heist on the High Seas
The Cruise Ship Capers and the Missing Klimt

Mary Kruger
Gilded Age Mystery Series
No Honeymoon for Death

Rita Lakin
Gladdy Gold Mystery Series
Getting Old is the Best Revenge

Laura Levine
Jaine Austen Mystery Series
Killer Cruise

Liz Lipperman
Clueless Cook Mystery Series
Murder for the Halibut

Peter Lovesey
The False Inspector Dew

Alyssa Maxwell
Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery Series
A Murderous Marriage

G.A. McKevett
Savannah Reid Mystery Series
Every Body on Deck

Marie Moore
Sydney March Mystery Series
Shore Excursion

Joanne Pence
Angie Amalfi Mystery Series
Cooks Overboard

Elliott Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery Series
First Class Murder

June Shaw
Cealie Gunther Mystery Series
Deadly Reunion

Elizabeth Daniels Squire
Peaches Dann Mystery Series
Where’s There’s a Will

Susan Sussman & Sarajane Avidon
Morgan Taylor Mystery Series
Cruising for Murder

Denise Swanson
Scumble River Mystery Series
Murder of a Needled Knitter

Marcia Talley
Hannah Ives Mystery Series
Dark Passage

Stella Whitelaw
Casey Jones Mystery Series
Second Sitting
Dead Slow Ahead
A Wide Berth

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Here are some fun Kansas facts:

The state capital is Topeka.
The largest city is Wichita.
State motto is “Ad astra per aspera” (To the stars through difficulties.)
State nickname is Sunflower State.
State flower is the Sunflower .
State bird is the Western Meadowlark .
State animal is the buffalo.
Kansas got its name for the Konza (aka Kaw or Kansa) Native Americans who lived there.

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

Sally Goldenbaum: Queen Bees Quilt Mystery Series (wrote first 3 in series)

Marnette Falley: Queen Bees Quilt Mystery Series (continued series at book 4)

Nancy Mehl: Ivy Towers Mystery Series (Mehl is on the Heartsong Presents Mysteries page)

Nancy J. Parra (aka Nancy Coco): Baker’s Treat Mystery Series

Charlene Weir: Police Chief Susan Wren Mystery Series

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

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