I have added six new authors to the Cozy Mystery site, and this time, they are really NEW! Actually, one of them is a very popular Cozy Mystery author who a lot of you might already follow, but she is now writing a new Cozy Mystery series under a new pseudonym.

Ella Barrick   Barrick, an ex-college English teacher, writes the NEW Ballroom Dance Mystery Series… Stacy Graysin is a co-owner of a ballroom dance studio in Alexandria, Virginia.

Melissa Bourbon (aka Misa Ramirez)    Bourbon, an ex-teacher, writes the NEW Magical Dressmaking Mystery Series. This series, has as its sleuth, Harlow Cassidy, owner of a boutique dressmaking shop in Texas. Harlow gets help from beyond the grave when solving her mysteries. (As Ramirez, she writes the Lola Cruz Mystery Series.)

Allison Kingsley    Kingsley is also known as Kate Kingsbury and Rebecca Kent. As Kingsley, she is now writing the NEW Raven’s Nest Bookstore Mystery Series. Two cousins (Clara and Stephanie Quinn) own the bookstore in Maine. Clara has psychic abilities which help when solving mysteries.

Liz Lipperman (aka Liz Roth)  Lipperman, a registered nurse, writes the NEW Clueless Cook Mystery Series which is set in Texas. Jordan McAllister does not know how to cook, but that doesn’t stop her from becoming a newspaper food critic.

Mary Moody   Moody has her MBA, which might come in handy when writing the NEW Lucy St. Elmo Antiques Mystery Series. Lucy is an antiques shop owner (as well as a sleuth) in Massachusetts.

Kari Lee Townsend   Townsend has her Masters in English Education, and writes the NEW Fortune Teller Mystery Series. Sunshine Meadows is a fortune teller in New York. Townsend also writes the Samantha Granger Experiment Series for middle school-age children.

For those of you who are “regulars” to the Cozy Mystery site, you know that every once in a while I add new authors to the site. These are always authors who you all have told me “belong” on the site. Of course, as I have not read the authors (if I had, they would probably already be on the site!) I just have to go with what I am told.

I have mentioned before that I have actually found several of the authors on my “favorite authors” list from these recommendations. But, I have also found some authors who I tried, and did not like. You know the expression: “To each, his (or in this case ‘her’) own.”

The five newest author additions to the site are:

Linda French   French writes the Professor Teodora Morelli Mystery Series, which features an nontenured history professor in Seattle, Washington. French is a  professor of history in Washington state…

Ron Goulart    Goulart pens the Groucho Marx Mystery Series. This series is based on Groucho Marx, a “real person” who was an actor and comedian in the 1930s+ Hollywood.

Susan Hill    Hill writes the British police procedural called the Simon Serrailler Mystery Series. The series begins with Serrailler being a Chief Inspector and follows him as he is promoted to Detective Chief Superintendent.  (Reportedly Not Cozy) Hill also writes Stand Alone mysteries.

Betty Webb     Webb is an ex-journalist who teaches creative writing. She writes the Lena Jones Mystery Series, which features a private investigator in Arizona. Webb also writes the Gunn Zoo Mystery Series, which has, as its sleuth, a zookeeper in California.  (Both series are reportedly not cozy)

Don Yarber    Yarber writes the Kip Yardley Mystery Series. This series features a Los Angeles private detective who used to be a highway patrol officer. Yarber states that his books “do not use a lot of graphic sex scenes, foul language or deeply disturbed psycho-babble”…

I know that if you look at the title of today’s entry, it looks like I can’t add. But, as one of the author goes by two different names, then I am (indeed) adding four new authors to the Cozy Mystery site:

Carol Culver aka Grace Carroll: As Culver, she writes the Pie Shop Mystery Series. Hanna Denton returns home to take over her grandmother’s pie shop in California. As Carroll, she writes the Accessories Mystery Series. Rita works in a very posh San Francisco boutique.

Debra H. Goldstein: Goldstein is a real life judge! She writes the Denney Silber Mystery Series which stars, as its sleuth, Denney, a student at the University of Michigan, during the 1970s.

Catriona McPherson: McPherson writes the Dandy Gilver Mystery Series. Dandy (Dandelion Dahlia Leston) is an aristocratic sleuth who lives in Scotland during the 1920s.

Hank Phillippi Ryan: Ryan is a Boston investigative reporter, who happens to write a mystery series which “stars” a television reporter in Boston. Ryan’s Charlotte McNally Mystery Series has won several major mystery book awards, including the prestigious Agatha and Anthony Awards.