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Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV

New Releases – September 19 to 25, 2016

Here’s this week’s list of upcoming releases!

M. C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Pushing up Daisies (This will be the 27th in the Agatha Raisin Mystery Series.)

Alan Bradley: Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d (This will be the 8th in the Flavia de Luce Mystery Series.)

Harlan Coben: Home (This will be the 11th in the Myron Bolitar Mystery Series.)

Leslie Langtry: Movie Night Murder (This will be the 4th in the Merry Wrath Mystery Series.)

Joyce Carol Oates: Soul at the White Heat (not a mystery)

Robert K. Tanenbaum: Infamy (This will be the 28th in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Mystery Series.)

 

Four New-to-the-Site Cozy Authors: Stephanie Blackmoore: Wedding Planner Mystery Series, Susan Breen: Maggie Dove Mystery Series, Sandra Bretting: Missy DuBois Mystery Series, Sarah Fox: Pancake House Mystery Series

I’m adding another set of new authors to the site >>> four more specifically. As always, these are authors I’ve heard of from visitors to the site, either through comments or by email.

 Stephanie Blackmoore is a Pittsburgh native who now lives in Missouri. Before becoming an author, she has had a career as a lawyer and a librarian. She is the author of the Wedding Planner Mystery Series, which stars Mallory Shepard, a wedding planner who also plans on opening a bed and breakfast in the small town of Port Quincy, Pennsylvania.

 

 

 Susan Breen is a creative writing teacher at Gotham Writers in Manhattan, and is also on the faculty of both the New York Pitch Conference and New York Writers Workshop. Her Cozy Mystery series is the Maggie Dove Mystery Series, starring a Sunday school teacher in Westchester County, New York, who eventually opens a detective agency.

 

 Sandra Bretting was born in southern California, but moved east (well, Mid-West anyway) to attend the Missouri School of Journalism, where she discovered her true passion of writing fiction. She worked as a freelancer for the Los Angeles Times for a while before moving to Houston, Texas, where she continued her career as a freelance journalist and began her career in Cozy Mystery writing. She is the author of the Missy DuBois Mystery Series, starring the owner of a hat shop on the Great River Road in Louisiana, which is known for its many plantations.

Sarah Fox is a legal writer from Vancouver, British Columbia. She writes the Pancake House Mystery Series starring Marley McKinney, manager of a pancake house. This series includes recipes! She also writes the Music Lover’s Mystery Series, starring Midori Bishop, a violinist in a philharmonic orchestra.

I hope you enjoy all these great looking Cozy Mystery authors!

“Name Dropping” Other Authors In Cozies

Book ClubAs I was recently reading A Killer Read, (you can read my blog post on that Cozy here), I couldn’t help but notice how often Lizzie and her fellow Book Club members mention their favorite mystery authors. The novel even introduces most of them at about the same time as they mention some of their own personal favorite reading material, a good way for canny mystery lovers to get a flavor of the sort of person each might be from their literary leanings. Quotations from mystery authors also begin each chapter. There are even reading lists at the end of the book of other mysteries that are thematically appropriate for each member of the Ashton Corners Book Club.

Of course, this is all very appropriate for the series >>> it does revolve around a mystery book club, after all! So it isn’t out of place or jarring, except for the slight surprise I get every time I see a “real person” inserted into a fictional world. And this isn’t the only Cozy series I can think of where real world Cozy authors are mentioned “in setting” in a Cozy >>> Miranda James comes to mind, as I believe that both Carolyn Haines and Charlaine Harris are mentioned as authors who have visited Charlie’s bookstore (hmm… maybe another possibility for me to reread some time soon…)

So I thought I’d ask if you enjoy seeing mentions of your other favorite authors in Cozies that you are reading. Personally I like it >>> as long as it is appropriate to the book! Also, are there any other series that you can think of that insert a character’s personal reading material into the setting that you particularly enjoy? If so, please post a comment. Thank you!

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