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Four New-to-the-Site Cozy Authors: Gretchen Archer: Davis Way Crime Caper, Catherine Bruns: Cookies & Chance, Mary Feliz: Maggie McDonald, Nancy Herriman: Mystery of Old San Franscisco

I’m adding new authors to the site —-> four authors this time. As always, these are authors I’ve heard of from visitors to the site, either through comments or by email. I haven’t had a chance to read any of their books yet, but I think they look interesting!

Gretchen Archer lives in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee with her son, husband, and Yorkie. (Her daughters have flown the coop.) She is the bestselling author of the Davis Way Crime Caper Mystery Series, starring a security expert in the Bellissimo Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi.

 

 

Catherine Bruns is an Upstate New York native, with a bachelor’s degree in English and Performing Arts. She’s worked as a newspaper reporter and press release author. She is the author of the USA Today bestselling Cookies & Chance Mystery Series, starring a baker in Colwestern, New York, and the Cindy York Mystery Series, starring a real estate agent. She’s a busy author who lives with her husband, three sons, and both cats and dogs.

Mary Feliz lives in Silicon Valley in California, but has lived in many other places – including five states and two different countries. She is a graduate of Smith College with a degree in Sociology, and has worked in corporate communications. She’s the author of the Maggie McDonald Mystery Series, starring a mother, wife, and professional organizer. Mary actually joined the National Association of Professional Organizers so that she could immerse herself in her character’s profession!

 Nancy Herriman was once an engineer, but ended that career to raise her children and take up writing. She now lives in Ohio (after twenty years of living in Arizona) with her husband and sons. She writes the Mystery of Old San Francisco Mystery Series, which stars Celia Davies. Although Celia was born in Great Britain, she lives in San Francisco during the 1860s. She is a nurse who has founded a free medical clinic for the poor to be able to receive medical attention.

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

Clever Book Titles VS. Really Nice Book Covers

I was just working on the Soon to be Released Mysteries page, and was struck by how many really clever titles there are out there! I mean, I knew that lots of Cozy Mystery authors are coming up with really clever titles, but it seems like now more than ever! Gone are the days of Murder at the Vicarage or The Body in the Library. Instead, we have titles like Die Like an Eagle and Much Ado about Muffin. (Incidentally, almost every time I see Die Like an Eagle I start humming Steve Miller’s Fly Like an Eagle!)

I know we’ve talked a number of times about how important the books’ covers are. See this post for just one example. But I thought it would be interesting to talk about titles vs. covers.

So, with all these clever Cozy Mystery book titles, I started wondering:

Which attracts you the most: the book’s title or the book’s cover? Do you find yourself picking up a book just because the title is clever or is it the artwork that grabs you?

Please post a comment and let us all know which one you think is more important, and if you can, why.

Thanks!

A Third New Cozy Mystery Wedding Themed Book Coming September 2016

Yikes! Well, it looks like I messed up a bit yesterday! I thought there were only two upcoming wedding themed Cozies coming out, but Ellen Byron was kind enough to contact me to let me know that her upcoming book, Body on the Bayou (which will be the 2nd in her Cajun Country Mystery Series) will also be a wedding-themed Cozy! In this novel, Maggie Crozat, full-time bed-and-breakfast manager and part-time sleuth will be serving as maid of honor to her co-worker Vanessa and the local police chief, Rufus Durand. (Hmmm… Rufus is getting married…) Unfortunately, tragedy will strike, as it always must in murder mysteries, when one of Vanessa’s cousins turns up dead in the bayou!

As before, if you’re looking for other great looking wedding-themed Cozy Mystery releases, you’ll find plenty if you check at the wedding theme page on my site! Wedding Themed Cozies

Two New Cozy Mystery Wedding Themed Books Coming September 2016

Normally I only highlight upcoming new series and and holiday-themed Cozy Mystery releases, but this month I’ve also decided to discuss two additional upcoming Cozy Mystery releases scheduled for September… because both are wedding themed! And I know that a lot of site visitors love their wedding themed Cozies!

The first release up will be Margaret Grace‘s Matrimony in Miniature, the 9th in her Miniature Mystery Series.  There’s a highly anticipated wedding taking place, but unfortunately, a murder has just taken occurred in the venue! Gerry and granddaughter Maddie will need to get to the bottom of this unexpected death if the wedding is to take place in its proper location. Margaret Grace also writes the Postmistress Mystery Series (under the name Jean Flowers), the Periodic Table Mystery Series (under the name Camille Minichino), and the Sophie Knowles Mystery Series (under the name Ada Madison).

The other wedding-themed Cozy Mystery release for September will be Lethal Lifestyles, the 6th in LynDee Walker‘s Headlines in Heels Mystery Series. In this entry, reporter Nichelle Clark is acting as maid of honor in a friend’s wedding when a corpse becomes an unexpected guest at the rehearsal weekend. She’ll need to work fast to uncover the complicated history between the deceased and the groom-to-be if she’s going to salvage this happy union!

If you’re interested in seeing other great looking wedding-themed Cozy Mystery releases, be sure to check out the wedding theme page on my site! Wedding Themed Cozies

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