Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV
Here is the list of new releases for June 21 to June 27!
Laura Lippman: Dream Girl (This will be a stand-alone thriller.)
Sarah Stewart Taylor: A Distant Grave (This will be the 2nd in the Maggie D’arcy Mystery Series.)
Kari Lee Townsend: Hazard in the Horoscope (This will be the 5th in the Sunny Meadows Mystery Series.)
Diane Vallere: Teacher’s Threat (This will be the 8th in the Mad for Mod Mystery Series.)
Well, as I said last month, I had let quite a few of these accumulate over time… I’m trying to keep the number a bit lower, so I might try to do this more often, possibly as often as once a month if I have enough questions.
From Lelia:
I recently listened to an audiobook cozy mystery about a witch who worked as a wedding/events planner, but I can’t remember the name of the series or the author!
EDIT: Well, Lelia already found this one – it was the A Touch of Magic Series by Danielle Garrett.
From John:
I am looking for a mystery series set in Seattle. I read these in the late 1980’s and really enjoyed them. Protagonist is a former Seattle policeman who is on medical retirement. He rides a bicycle for fitness and local competitions. He rents a basement apartment in his house to a female law student. Anyone know the author?
EDIT: A number of readers (Elizabeth, Debbie, Laura, SL, Sharon, J, Kate, and Becky) have all suggested that this could be Earl Emerson‘s Thomas Black Series.
From Glen:
While everyone is looking, remembering, and suggesting authors, maybe someone can come up with a series I’ve been trying to find. About a woman in Northern California, I think, who works for a phone company(?) and who left a prior job to move to this small community.
EDIT: Debbie suggested that this might be the Vejay Haskell Mystery Series by Susan Dunlap.
From Megan:
I read this mystery book maybe 10 years ago and loved it but have no idea who wrote it. It’s about an old lady in who owns an inn or hotel and she is a bit eccentric. She lives here with her son. The main character goes to visit this place and finds a diary from a maid who used to work there who disappeared somehow but had had a baby prior. In the end, the old, eccentric lady ends up being a man and her son ends up being the missing maids son.
From Mark:
There’s a book series that I’ve been trying to figure out too. I don’t remember very much about it but it had an older man in it and I wanna say his nephew or younger friend? There was a murder in it (I think in mississippi or in the bayou?) and the old man is like brilliant or extremely smart. It was an old book That I found at my nanas house and I think it was my dads book. I think the main character has 2 initials as his first name. I think it was a series and could be from the 40s or 50s
Mystery Books that Take Place in Wyoming…
Here are some Wyoming facts:
The capital and the largest city is Cheyenne.
State motto is “Equal Rights”.
State nickname is the Equality State.
State flower is the Indian Paintbrush.
State bird is the Western Meadowlark.
Wyoming got its name from the Munsee word which means “at the big river flat”.
Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site who feature Wyoming locations/settings in their books:
Sarah Andrews: Em Hansen Mystery Series – Em Hansen is a forensic geologist in Wyoming. (not Cozy)
Margaret Coel: Wind River Mystery Series – Father John O’Malley is a Jesuit priest and Vicky Holden is an Arapaho lawyer on an Arapaho reservation in Wyoming. (not Cozy)
Marne Davis Kellogg: Lilly Bennett Mystery Series – Lilly is a private detective in Roundup, Wyoming.
I’ve got three pieces of Cozy news to share with you all this month!
First, Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib) will be putting out two more books in her Key West Food Critic Mystery Series, which will bring the total of the series to at least thirteen. She doesn’t write anything else as Lucy Burdette, but she also wrote the Advice Column Mystery Series and the Golf Lovers’ Mystery Series under the name Roberta Isleib.
Next up, Peggy Ehrhart will be adding two more books to her Knit & Nibble Mystery Series, which will bring the series starring a widow and “empty nester” who now is associate editor of a craft magazine to a total of 10 entries (she already has at least one more coming out in addition to the seven I have names for on her page at the moment). Ehrhart is also the author of the Maxx Maxwell Mystery Series, which stars a blues singer and waitress in New Jersey.
Finally, Kellye Garrett will be starting what sounds like a new series with Like a Sister, the first entry starring a woman who is investigating the suspicious death of half-sister, who was a reality tv star living in the Bronx of New York City. This will be at least a two book series. Kellye Garrett is also the writer of the Detective By Day Mystery Series, starring a Hollywood actress in Los Angeles.
