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Mysteries Books that Take Place in Vermont…

Here are some fun Vermont facts:
The capital is Montpelier.
Largest city in Vermont is Burlington.
State motto is “Freedom and Unity.”
State nickname is “Green Mountain State.”
State flower is the Red Clover.
State bird is the Hermit Thrush.
State animal is the Morgan horse.

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

Connie Archer: Soup Lover’s Mystery Series. It is set in a little Vermont skiing town.

Barbara Bretton: Chloe Hobb’s Paranormal Mystery Series: Chloe owns the Sticks & Strings Knitting Shop and happens to be half human, half sorceress…

B. Comfort (aka Barbara Comfort): Tish McWhinny Mystery Series: Tish is a septuagenarian artist/sleuth…

Sarah Fox: writes the Literary Pub Mystery Series – which takes place in Vermont and features a pub owner who caters to book groups and other literary lovers.

Melissa Glazer (aka Tim Myers, Elizabeth Bright, & Chris Cavender): Clay & Crime Cozy Mystery Series: Carolyn Emerson owns the Fire at Will Pottery Shop…

Archer Mayor: Joe Gunther Mystery Series… This is a police procedural series…

Amy Patricia Meade:  Pret’ Near Perfect Mystery Series… Stella Thornton Buckley lives in a village in Vermont with her husband…

Allison Cesario Paton: Mrs. Bundle Mystery Series… Mrs. Bundle is a senior citizen sleuth …

Fran Stewart: ScotShop Mystery Series… Peggy Winn owns a shop which specializes in Scottish merchandise. Peggy has the help of a 14th century Scottish specter.

Sarah Stewart Taylor: Sweeney St. George Mystery Series:  Sweeney is a professor/historian/sleuth…

Nancy Means Wright: Ruth Willmarth Mystery Series: Ruth is a single mother/dairy farmer/sleuth…

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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  5. It just so happens that my second book is out and it takes place in Vermont. The name of the book is “Dead at 30” by Debbie Steever. You have reviewed my first book “Family Secrets or Lies.”
    Please take a look at my second book it is a mystery.
    Thanks,
    Debbie Steever

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  6. Thanks, Debbie, for letting us know about your second book.

    Actually, I don’t review books for the site. But I did add your second title on your page in my “authors to post” folder.

    Thanks, again, for telling us about another mystery book that takes place in Vermont!

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  7. I wanted to invite you to read my mystery, Murderous Roots, set in Vermont. Retired doctor and amateur genealogist Anne McPhail visits Culvers Mills, a fictional small Vermont town looking for her roots. Murder, blackmail and genealogy mix and explode in danger for Anne before the murder and the genealogical mystery are solved.

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  9. Your site is great. However, I would really like a section such as this: If you like Rett MacPherson, you’ll also like…………
    If you like Susan Wittig Albert, you’ll love………
    See what I mean? If you have this and I’m not seeing it, please let me know!!!

    Thanks…..from VT.

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  11. Here are a couple more that should probably be on your list:
    Don Bredes (perhaps not a cozy, but he writes good Vermont mysteries)
    Nancy Means Wright (has a solid Vermont series featuring Ruth Willmarth who is trying to make a go of her Vermont farm)

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  13. My three Hector Bellevance mysteries, COLD COMFORT (2001), THE FIFTH SEASON (2005), and THE ERRAND BOY (2009), are not quite cozies, it’s true. They are works of literary suspense fiction with certain appealing cozy-ish elements. All are set in contemporary Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom and feature the region’s familiar geography and rural social character.

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  17. Sarah Stewart Taylor’s books “Sweeney St. George” mystery series, are really set in Boston, Massachusetts. Her first book takes place in Vermont but the other three are set in Massachusetts (Newport, Rhode Island)

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  19. As a Vermonter now living in Michigan, I was glad to see your list of mysteries set in that beautiful state. I have read Wright, Comfort and Mayor, but I did not know of the others. I think Archer Mayor writes a great police procedural mystery and his Vermont setting are true to my Vermont.

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  20. I would like more copies of “a Vermont Mystery” by Thomas Reese. I heard they were available on Amazon. It is newly published and a great read. Anyone know anything?

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  21. Hi Danna, I’m not sure if you want to add Amy Patricia Meade yet to this list. I am guessing she is going to continue her Pret Near Perfect Mystery series. “Well-Offed in Vermont” (just out) ended as if it would be a series; and there was a lot of character development. At least I hope so, it was a very fun book. I know you have her elsewhere on your site.

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    • Thank you, Margaret, for bringing this to my attention. I actually put Well-Offed in Vermont on Amy Patricia Meade’s page as the fifth in her Marjorie McClelland Mystery Series. Good grief, to me! (I had it right on the November 2011 Mystery Book New Releases list, but totally blanked out!)

      Thank you!

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      • Margaret, I just fixed Amy Patricia Meade’s page and added her Pret’ Near Perfect Mystery Series to her page. Thanks, again!

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  22. Oh! Forgot to also add there is a fifth book in the series:
    MRS BUNDLE’S MIDNIGHT MYSTERY: The Case of the Springfield Shock Jock $14.95; 978-0-9790270-4-8 PB 282 pages
    In this fifth novel, it’s raining men—and Mrs. Bundle finds it quite intrusive! “Hambone Fever” has hit the airwaves and taken Windsor County by storm. A critical midnight shooting leaves Mrs. Bundle with only three clues and a “good conscience” conundrum that she must deal with long distance—and without the help of her slippery client, Rufus “Hambone” Rydell. Choosing to ignore old and trusted friend Sheriff Will O’Malley’s firm warning to stay far, far away from this case, she harnesses the peculiar attention and support of a compellingly handsome aviator and bravely faces a dark nemesis bent on destroying her and Cracker. With the assistance of her dearly departed husband, Arthur, and two Southerly feminine “kindred spirits,” Mrs. Bundle can, with a bit of luck, find her way back to all that’s “Fantastical!”\
    Thank you!

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  23. Author Frank Edwards wrote a book called a Strange World. I read this book when I was a young man. It was a very good read. One story that intrigued me took place in Windsor Vt. . It involved a doctor who had to move out of his home because water was collecting everywhere within the home. This is a true mystery,I worked with a man who’s wife worked for the doctor. And she had it verified.

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  24. Jennifer McMahon has written a number of mystery-thriller-ghost-stories set in rural Vermont, such as The Winter People & The Invited.

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