Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): Murder at the Taffy Shop (This will be the 2nd in the Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery Series.)
Agatha Frost: Fresh Linen Fraud (This will be the 5th in the Claire’s Candles Cozy Mystery Series.)
Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – March 2021
If you read a Cozy mystery this month and want to recommend it to the rest of us, be sure to post it here! For this month, I read the first entry of Sharon Farrow Berry Basket Mystery Series. For the reasons I want to recommend it, be sure to check out the blog entry!
So, what have you been reading that you can recommend in March? Please be sure to tell us why you liked these Cozies so much. I know we’re all always on the lookout for more particularly good Cozy Mystery authors! (If you have a lot of Cozies you think are great, please post the ones you like the most at the top of the list.)
As always, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.
What really good Cozy Mystery did you read during March 2021 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?
Ellie Alexander (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley): Sloan Krause Mystery Series
Madelyn Alt: Bewitching Mystery Series
Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series
Rita Mae Brown: Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series
Emmie Caldwell: Craft Fair Knitters Mystery Series (first entry A Wicked Yarn)
Linda Castillo: Kate Burkholder Mystery Series (first entry Sworn to Silence)
Vivien Chien: Noodle Shop Mystery Series
Ellen Crosby: Wine Country Mystery Series
Reagan Davis: Knitorious Cozy Mystery Series (first entry Knit One Murder Two)
Maria DiRico (aka Ellen Byron): Catering Hall Mystery Series
Elizabeth J. Duncan: Penny Brannigan Mystery Series
Sharon Farrow: The Berry Basket Mystery Series
Jessica Fellowes: Mitford Murders Mystery Series (first entry The Mitford Murders)
Alison Golden: Reverend Annabelle Dixon Mystery Series
Fiona Grace: Lacey Doyle Cozy Mystery Series (first entry Murder in the Manor)
T E Kinsey: Lady Hardcastle Mystery Series (first entry A Quiet Life in the Country)
Libby Klein: Poppy McAllister Mystery Series
Amanda Lee (aka Gayle Trent & Gayle Leeson): Embroidery Mystery Series AND Down South Cafe Mystery Series
Judi Lynn: Jazzi Zanders Mystery Series (first entry The Body in the Attic)
Alexis Morgan: Abby McCree Mystery Series
Carlene O’Connor: Irish Village Mystery Series
Amy Pershing: Cape Cod Foodie Mystery Series (first entry A Side of Murder)
Dorothy St. James: Beloved Bookroom Mystery Series
Lea Wait (aka Cornelia Kidd): Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series
Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series
I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month.
♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦
P.S. I usually don’t comment on your recommendations since they speak for themselves.
Mystery Books that Take Place in West Virginia…
Mystery Books that Take Place in West Virginia…
Here are some West Virginia facts:
The capital and the largest city is Charleston.
State motto is “Mountaineers Are Always Free”.
State nickname is the Mountain State.
State flower is the Rhododendron.
State bird is the Cardinal.
Virginia was named after Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen.
Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site who feature West Virginia locations/settings in their books:
Christina Freeburn: Faith Hunter Scrap This Mystery Series – Faith Hunter was an Army Judge Advocate General (lawyer) who now runs a scrapbooking store in West Virginia.
Julie Anne Lindsey (aka Jacqueline Frost, Julie Chase, & Bree Baker): Apple Cider Shop Mystery Series – Winnie Montgomery and her grandmother own an apple orchard in West Virginia.
New Releases – March 22 to March 28, 2021
Janet Evanovich and Peter Evanovich: The Bounty (This will be the 7th in the Fox and O’Hare Mystery Series.)
Jeanne Glidewell: Ripped Off (This will be the 6th in the Ripple Effect Cozy Mystery Series.)
Jacqueline Winspear: The Consequences of Fear (This will be the 16th in the Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series.)
