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Two (or More) Cozy Mystery Sleuths Who Work Together

As part of my visiting some of the most recommended Cozy Mystery series from our monthly recommendations posts, I have recently examined a couple of series where the sleuth consisted of more than one person. So, I thought it might be an interesting theme to add >>>  Cozy Mysteries where the sleuths are two or more people who act as a mystery-solving team.

By this I don’t mean series where the sleuth has a sidekick or gets a little help from others. I wouldn’t consider Sherlock Holmes stories, for example, to include multiple sleuths. Watson is more of a sidekick than a co-sleuth. Watson is so iconic, in fact, that the sidekick of a sleuth is often called “the Watson”. By co-sleuth, I mean that each person provides substantial input into finding the culprit (not just information such as a boyfriend or other relative who is on the police force might provide). I think Ann George’s Southern Sisters Mystery Series is a pretty good example where there are two sleuths who are both equally involved in solving the mysteries – and where neither of the main characters is just a sidekick.

Kylie Logan’s League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series is another example where the stories include the efforts of a whole book group of women to solve the mysteries.

Can you think of any other sleuthing teams who work together equally? If you know of any series where there are two or more (more or less equal sleuths) please add a comment below.

Cozy Mystery Series With Two (or More) Sleuths

Kathy Aarons: Chocolate Covered Mystery Series

Isabella Alan (aka Amanda Flower): Amih Quilt Shop Mystery Series

Susan Wittig Albert: Darling Dahlias Mystery Series

Conrad Allen (aka Edward Marston and Keith Miles): Dillman Mystery Series

Susan Bernhardt: Kay Driscoll Mystery Series

Simon Brett: Fethering Mystery Series

Emily Brightwell: Mrs Jeffries Mystery Series

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

Chris Cavender (aka Jessica Beck, Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, Tim Myers, Casey Mayes, & D.B. Morgan): Pizza Lover Mystery Series

Cassandra Chan: Phillip Bethancourt and Gibbons Mystery Series

Agatha Christie: Tommy and Tuppence Mystery Series

Jill Churchill: Jane Jeffry Mystery Series

Jill Churchill: Grace and Favor Mystery Series

Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series

Isis Crawford (aka Barbara Block): Mystery with Recipes Mystery Series – Bernie and Libby, sisters who run a bake shop/catering business, solve mysteries.

Mary Daheim: Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series

Julianna Deering (aka DeAnna Julie Dodson): Drew Farthering Mystery Series

Leighann Dobbs: The Mooseamuck Island Series

Vickie Fee: Liv and Di in Dixie Mystery Series

Anne George: Southern Sisters Mystery Series – Both of the loving but hilarious sisters work together to solve mysteries.

Jeanne Glidewell: Ripple Effect Mystery Series – Rip and Rapella Ripple are married sleuth RVers in Missouri.

Sally Goldenbaum: Seaside Knitters Mystery Series

Ann Granger: Campbell and Cartery Mystery Series AND Markby and Mitchell Village Whodunit Series

Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series

David Handler: Berger & Mitry Mystery Series

Carolyn Hart: Death on Demand Mystery Series

Erin Hart: Nora Gavin / Cormac Maguire Mystery Series

D.E. Ireland (aka Sharon Farrow and Meg Macy): Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins Mystery Series

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

Mary Kennedy: Dream Club Mystery Series

Laurie R. King: Mary Russell Mystery Series

Rita Lakin: Gladdy Gold Mystery Series

Richard & Frances Lockridge: Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery Series

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series – A whole book group works to solve mysteries.

Virginia Lowell: Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery Series

Lisa Q. Mathews: Ladies Smythe & Westin Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series

Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini: Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery Series

Clare O’Donohue: World of Spies Mystery Series – Hollis and Finn Larsson are college professors who assist Interpol in Ireland.

Robin Paige (aka Susan Wittig Albert & Bill Albert): Victorian Mystery Series

Andrea Penrose: Wrexford & Sloan Mystery Series is set in  Regency London.

Anne Perry: Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Mystery Series and William Monk Mystery Series

Ann Purser: Ivy Beasley Mystery Series

Corrine Holt Sawyer: Benbow & Wingate Mystery Series

Jamie Lee Scott: Gotcha Detective Mystery Series

L.C.Tyler: Ethelred & Elsie Mystery Series

Livia J. Washburn: Fresh-Baked Mystery Series

P.S. Please be sure to read all of the comments below to find out more about the series listed above.

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Realtor Sleuths in Cozy Mysteries

home8A while ago, Terri asked me to post a Realtor themed entry:

… Could you do a list of cozies with professions of Realtors (as this series is) or Real Estate Appraisers (“Appraisal for Murder” by Elaine Orr, series Jolie Gentil Cozy Mysteries)- or maybe a combined list? Kathleen Delaney’s “Ellen McKenzie mysteries” would also fit. …

I keep a list of possible themes which I try to add to whenever I start the posting process for a new-to-the-site author, so I already had the theme going. So, the realtor sleuth theme now will join some of the many themes I have on my site such as Librarians Sleuths in Cozies, Culinary Cozies with Recipes, Cozies with Cats, etc.

Realtor Sleuths in Cozy Mysteries:

Jenna Bennett (aka Jennie Bentley & Bente Gallagher): Savannah Martin Mystery Series – Savannah is a divorced Southern Belle who is a realtor in Nashville, Tennessee.

Catherine Bruns: Cindy York Mystery Series

Ann Charles: Deadwood Humorous Mystery Series – Violet “Spooky” Parker, is a single mom of twins who wears purple cowboy books and is a real estate agent in a little town called Deadwood (South Dakota). Violet has a tendency to sell haunted houses, so watch out!

Cheryl Crane: Nikki Harper Mystery Series – Nikki is a celebrity realtor in Hollywood.

Vicki Doudera: Darby Farr Mystery Series – Darby is a realtor on an island off of Maine’s coast.

Charlaine Harris: Aurora Teagarden Mystery Series – At the beginning of the series, Aurora (Roe) is a librarian. She later becomes a real estate agent in Georgia.

Traci Tyne Hilton: Mitzy Neuhaus Mystery Series – Mitzy is a top-selling realtor in Portland, Oregon. (These are billed as “cozy Christian” mysteries.)

Nancy Lynn Jarvis : Regan McHenry Real Estate Mystery Series – Regan is a realtor/sleuth and her husband Tom is an ex-computer programmer, in Santa Cruz, California.

Barbara Lee: Chesapeake Bay Mystery Series

Tierney McClellan (aka Barbara Taylor McCafferty & Taylor McCafferty) : Schuyler Ridgway Mystery Series – Schuyler is a realtor in Louisville, Kentucky.

Elaine Orr: Jolie Gentil Mystery Series – Jolie is a real estate appraiser in an east coast beach town called Ocean Alley, in New Jersey.

Maggie Sefton: Kate Doyle Mystery Series – Kate is a divorced realtor in a Colorado college town. (Well, actually there is only one book in this series.)

Nina Wright: Whiskey Mattimoe Mystery Series – Whiskey, a widow, works as a realtor in a resort town in Michigan. Abra is her Afghan Hound.

If you’re interested in finding other themes of Cozy Mystery series, I have lots and lots of themes on the Cozies by Themes page of my Cozy-Mystery site.

By the way, if you know of any other Cozy Mystery Realtor Sleuths, please post a comment. Thank you!

Historical Cozy Mysteries Set in the 1920s

FlapperRecently I went back and revisited Carola Dunn‘s Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series, and it got me thinking about the historical/period themed mysteries that are home to many Cozy Mysteries. I’ve already got a series of posts on these as a whole >>> but I’ve also been thinking lately how different the setting can make a series seem and how it might be nice to be able to help find similar novels based in this time period.

To help make that easier I’ve decided to begin making more focused themes for the site so people can find similar novels by setting more easily. This time we’ll be starting with the 1920s!

A period often called the “Roaring Twenties” in the United States, the 1920s are often characterized by wild times, prohibition, and flappers, but it was also a time for social change>>> women’s liberation made significant progress in particular, with women getting the right to vote in both the United States and Great Britain during the 1920s.

I’ve included some examples below – but if you’ve got any other examples of Cozy Mystery authors who have a series set in the 1920s, please be sure to send in a comment so I can include them in the list!

Cozy Mysteries set in the 1920s:

Suzanne Arruda: Jade del Cameron Mystery Series – Jade is an adventurer in Africa.

S.H. Baker: the Dassas Cormier Mystery Series takes place in Louisiana during the 1920s

George Baxt: Celebrity Sleuths Mystery Series – Not all of the books in this series take place during the 1920s, however several of them do.

K.K. Beck: The Iris Cooper & Jack Clancy Mystery Series is set during the late 1920s, so of course, it features a flapper.

Simon Brett: Blotto and Twinks Mystery Series – The sleuths in this series are a British brother and sister team.

Frances Brody: Kate Shackleton Mystery Series – Kate is a WWI widow in a British small milling village during the 1920s.

Maia Chance: Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery Series – Lola Woodby is a 1920s society matron and widow.

Jill Churchill: Grace and Favor Mystery Series – Brother/sister sleuthing duo Lily and Robert Brewster start sleuthing after they lose all of their money in upstate New York.

Ellen Collier: Jazz Age Mystery Series – Jazz Cross is a society reporter.

Jeanne M. Dams: The Hilda Johansson Mystery Series takes place in the USA, during the early 1920s. Hilda is a Swedish immigrant housemaid in South Bend, Indiana.

Alice Duncan: Daisy Gumm Majesty Mystery Series – Daisy is a séance and tarot psychic in California.

Alice Duncan: Mercy Alcutt Mystery Series – Mercy is the owner of a rooming house in Hollywood.

Carola Dunn: The Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series is set in 1920s England. Daisy is a journalist who does more than report the stories… she solves them!

R. Austin Freeman: Dr. Thorndyke Mysteries – Freeman is the creator of inverted detective stories in which you find out the crime and possibly the culprit at the beginning, and then read about the how the detective solved the crime.

Dolores Gordon-Smith: Jack Haldean Mystery Series – Jack was a Royal Flying Corps pilot and is currently a young crime writer in England.

Kerry Greenwood: The Phryne Fisher Mystery Series takes place in the 1920s in Australia. Phryne Fisher is a very “modern woman” who enjoys solving a mystery (or two!)

Melanie Jackson: Jane Blackthorn Mystery Series – Jane is a young widow/sleuth.

Laurie R. King: Harris Stuyvesant Mystery Series

Catriona McPherson: The Dandy Gilver Mystery Series has, as its sleuth, Dandy (Dandelion Dahlia Leston), a Scottish aristocrat in the 1920.

Mary Miley writes the Roaring Twenties Mystery Series which features an ex-Vaudeville/silent films actress in Hollywood during the 1920s.

J. J. Murphy: The Algonquin Round Table Mystery Series takes place in New York during the 1920s, and features author Dorothy Parker as its sleuth.

John Reisinger – Max Hurlock Mystery Series

Agata Stanford: Dorothy Parker Mystery Series – The sleuth in this series is non other than the famous real life author, Dorothy Parker.

Charles Todd: Ian Rutledge Mystery Series – Rutledge is a WW I veteran and Scotland Yard detective in England.

Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series – Maisy is a psychologist/sleuth in London.

If you’re interested in seeing lots and lots of other Cozy Mystery themes (and by “lots” I truly mean lots!), be sure to visit the Cozy Mysteries by Themes page on my site.

Mystery Books that Take Place in Rhode Island

Rhode Island Red ChickenHere are some Fun Rhode Island Facts:

State Motto: “Hope”.
State Flower is the Violet.
Capital and Largest City is Providence.
State Bird is the Rhode Island Red Chicken.
State Nickname is “The Ocean State” and “Little Rhody”.
This smallest state in the USA was the last of the 13 colonies that became a state and the first state to issue a speeding ticket (in 1904).

Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site who feature Rhode Island locations/settings in their books:

Shelley Freydont: Newport Gilded Age Mystery Series

Alice Kimberly (aka Cleo Coyle): Haunted Bookshop Mystery Series

Mary Kruger: Gilded Age Mystery Series

Alyssa Maxwell: Gilded Newport Mystery Series

Suzanne Young: Edna Davies 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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