Just a quick note to let you know that I just added five new authors to the site. They were all recommended by readers of the site. (I am never sure if anyone who has visited the site before reads the What’s New page, thus the reason that I keep being so redundant!)

Dorothy Howell: Howell’s Haley Randolph Mystery Series features a part-time sales person who happens to love designer labels in her purses…

Lorena McCourtney: McCourtney is listed under “Christian Mysteries” on her site… She writes several mystery series, some of which feature senior citizen sleuths: her Ivy Malone Mystery Series, Andi McConnell Mystery Series, and Sparrow Island Mystery Series…

Lawrence Sanders: (Not Cozy) Sanders writes several mystery series (including the Archy McNally Series) and also many stand alones… He has many best selling novels…

Deborah Sharp: Sharp’s Mace Bauer Mystery Series is a funny series which features a single daughter and her ever-loving Mama…

Gayle Trent: Trent’s Daphne Martin Mystery Series has just released its first book which features a cake decorator…

Now that I am officially back from my niece’s beautiful wedding, I thought that I would get back to posting different things on the site. By saying “officially back” I mean that I have finally gotten caught up with all of the things that awaited me here at home… Six load of laundry, dusting and vacuuming, grocery shopping, bills to be paid, ETC.

I have added four new authors to the site that you all have let me know about, who I have introduced on the “What’s New” page of the Cozy Mystery Site, but want to officially post them in this blog, also. Thank you so much for telling me about them… if you all are like me… you can never have enough authors from which (or is it “whom”?) to choose! 

C. S. Challinor: Those of you who love seasonal mysteries will enjoy knowing that the first novel in Challinor’s Rex Graves Mystery Series is set in an English hotel during the Christmas season…

Patricia Harrington: Harrington is an ex-teacher who now writes two mystery series…

Ellen Elizabeth Hunter: Hunter writes a mystery series which featuring house preservation… something she knows a lot about…

Radine Trees Nehring: Nehring writes a mystery series which is set in the Arkansas Ozarks, which features a “senior sleuth” who enjoys sleuthing with a retired police detective…

Do you ever get the déjà vu feeling? Kind of like… this feels like two days ago… but I know it’s today? I guess that’s how I could explain this blog… Other than the difference in number, the idea is the same: I want to introduce… sort of put the spotlight on… new authors who came to my attention because of site readers.  So, without any further distracting “blogging,” here goes!

Amy Patricia Meade: Meade writes the Marjorie McClelland Mystery Series which is set during the 1930s in Connecticut and features a mystery author. (This series is included on its corresponding Historical Theme page.)

Deanna Raybourn: Raybourn writes the Lady Julia Grey Mystery Series which is a historical mystery series that is set in Victorian England. (I have included this series on its corresponding Historical Theme page.)

T. Dawn Richard: Richard writes the May List Mystery Series which features a woman who leaves her philandering husband after 35 years of marriage and moves to a retirement community… to begin a new life as a sleuth. (I have included this series on its corresponding Senior Sleuth Theme page.)

June Thomson (aka June Valerie Thomson): Thomson writes the Inspector Jack Finch (in Great Britain)/Inspector Jack Rudd (in USA) Mystery Series. (Different names, same series.) She has also written several Sherlock Holmes books which are collections of short stories. (I have listed these Sherlock Holmes books in the Mysteries with (Previously) Famous Fictional Characters Theme.)

Anne White White writes the Lake George Mystery Series which is set in a beautiful resort town on Lake George… (I actually came by Anne White in a rather round-about way… Her daughter, Kate White, was recommended for the site, and while I was compiling my information for Kate’s page, I clicked on her mom’s page, and once there, I thought that Anne White should definitely be included on the site!)

Last weekend, I heard from someone who gave me the names of thirteen new authors for the site. I know that thirteen is an unlucky  number in the mystery book business, but, since I don’t write the cozies that I tell you about… then I consider thirteen to be a very lucky number… AND am hoping that of the thirteen new authors she recommended, a few of them fall right into the cozy mystery book style for which you are searching.

But, since I haven’t started working on these particular authors, let me take the time to tell you about a few new authors who I just posted. All of them were recommended by readers of the site… I haven’t been able to try out their books, but they sure do look interesting!

Sharon Dunn: Dunn (who describes herself as a Christian author) writes two series, both of which are set in Montana. The Ruby Taylor Mystery Series features a feed-store employee/sleuth, and the Bargain Hunters Mystery Series features a garage sale junkie. (I have included Dunn’s series in the Antiquing Theme, although, technically…)

Kaitlyn Dunnett: A lot of you are familiar with Kaitlyn Dunnett, but just might not be aware of the fact that Dunnett and Kathy Lynn Emerson happen to be the same author… with different series “between them.” As Dunnett, she is starting a new series which is quite different from the “Emerson series.” It is the Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series, which features a member of a Scottish Dance Troupe in Maine. As Emerson, she has the very popular Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery Series, which features a 1600s herbalist.  (That series is found in both the Historical Theme page and the Gardening Theme page.) She also writes the Diana Spaulding Mystery Series, which features a descendant of Lady Appleton as an1800s reporter. (Also found on the Historical Theme page.)

Lisa Lutz: Lutz writes the Izzy Spellman Mystery Series, which features a P.I. in San Francisco.  Her first novel was nominated for three prestigious mystery awards: the Anthony, the Barry, and the Macavity Awards.

Hope McIntyre (aka Caroline Upcher):   McIntyre (the pseudonym for her crime fiction) writes about something she knows first-hand… ghostwriting. Having been a ghostwriter (as well as several other professions—including editor) she now writes the Lee Bartholomew Mystery Series featuring a ghostwriter…