Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV
It’s that time again!
Maria E. Schneider is asking for our help in deciding which cover she should use for her next book. Here is the link to her website with the two covers:
http://www.bearmountainbooks.com/
I just voted before writing this entry, and am already wondering which of the two covers is going to be the one! It should be interesting…
A couple of days ago, Michelle submitted a comment asking for help.
“I just started reading cozy mysteries so what is new to me is probably good old reading for the rest of the mystery fans. I absolutely love the Wine Country Mysteries by Michele Scott. I currently am still reading those and I just discovered the Coffee House Mysteries by Cleo Coyle. If any of you have any rec’s I would love to hear them…”
I know that amongst us, we have many different likes and dislikes. The authors I might suggest might be quite different that authors who you all might think that Michelle would enjoy, and vice versa.
So, do any of you have a Cozy Mystery author (or even two or three!) who you think should be on the top of any new Cozy Mystery reader list?
I do! (I’ll start with just one… I don’t want to monopolize!)
Anne George: the Southern Sisters Mystery Series is full of heart and great characters, and also fun to read.
Please post a comment with your recommendation(s)…
PS>>> I have just posted a list of all of the mystery book authors who Cozy Mystery site readers have recommended. Here is the list of the Recommendations for Cozy Mystery Authors for NEW Cozy Mystery Readers.
Here’s another mystery book mystery! Sara asked us to help her find the author for this mystery book series:
“I’m trying to recall the author of this series, and would appreciate help from you and your readers. IF I remember it correctly, it’s a series that came out at least since 1996 (or later) in which a female who works either in anthropology or with Native American artifacts in a western U.S. state. She found clues to a hidden mine (gold or silver maybe???) and one of the books had a really old map in it that she traced. I think there were at least three books or more in the series. Any clues? Thanks. SARA”
If you think you might know who the mystery author is, please post a comment.
PS… I probably should have included the fact that Sara posted her comment on the Cozy Mystery Professions’ Theme:
Mystery Books with Anthropologists and Archaelogists as Their Sleuths…
A site reader (Linda) wrote the other day with a question that I have actually gotten from other Cozy Mystery site readers. Since it involves audible.com and audio books, I decided to see what I could come up with for her, and thought that I would ask you all if you have any suggestions for Linda.
“I have a question for you and possibly an area to add to your site – cozy mysteries on audiobooks. There just aren’t very many of them that are recorded. My mother is legally blind and a lover of cozy mysteries. I subscribed her to Audible.com and use your site to look up possible cozy mysteries that she would like. It’s getting harder and harder to find any though – I look them up one by one, dozens and dozens and dozens before I find ONE that is available on audiobook.
I’m sure there are others who follow your website that have vision problems – any suggestion on where I might be able to find a better selection of cozy mystery audiobooks?”
Linda, my husband and I are members of audible.com, and have enjoyed listening to many different authors: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ellis Peters, Ruth Rendell, Alexander McCall Smith, and I just discovered that they have Simon Brett and Sister Carol Anne O’Marie in their library. The good news is that they have just started adding Carola Dunn, Monica Ferris, and Dorothy Gilman.
My daughter came to my aid and sent me the following:
“Here’s that info on books for the blind:
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
To qualify, she has to show that she’s got vision that makes it so she can’t read.”
I went to the site, and under the “Search the Catalog” area they actually use Mary Higgins Clark for the example of an author. It looks like you’ll have to spend some time going through the site, but it does look promising.
It’s not enough that they make audio books of Cozy Mysteries, locating them is the difficult part of the equation. Do any of you have ideas for locating audio books of Cozy Mystery authors? Please post a comment…
