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

Annie’s Antique Shop, Annie’s Amish Inn, & Sugar Creek Amish Mystery Series have just been added to the Cozy-Mystery site.

For those of you who have been asking for me to post the latest Annie’s mystery series >>> well I finally got them done! I have just added two of the Annie’s mystery series (Annie’s Antique Shop & Annie’s Amish Inn) and one of the Guideposts mystery series (Sugar Creek Amish) to the Cozy-Mystery site. Guideposts is a company that has specialized in the motto “Inspiration. Faith. Hope.” for many years. They have both Cozy Mystery series as well as non mystery series. Annie’s is a craft company that also has several Cozy Mystery series.

Here’s a re-cap of all of the ones I have posted on the site, along with the three new pages:

 Guideposts Mystery Series:

Guideposts Non Mystery Series:

 Annie’s Mystery Series:

***** As usual, if you subscribe to any of the Annie’s or Guideposts series, I would appreciate it if you would send me the names of the upcoming books in the series. Thank you! *****

Four New-to-the-Site Cozy Authors: Kristi Abbott: Gourmet Popcorn Shop, Julianna Deering: Drew Farthering, Ann Myers: Santa Fe Café, Janice Peacock: Glass Bead

I’m adding another set of great looking Cozy Mystery Series authors to the site, as always from the recommendations of Cozy Mystery site member recommendations. It seems like I’m not even making a dent in my “Authors to Post” list >>> but I’m trying!

 Kristi Abbott (aka Eileen Rendahl & Eileen Carr) lives in California, but like her the sleuth in her Gourmet Popcorn Shop Mystery Series, was born in Ohio. The Popcorn Shop series features Rebecca Anderson, the owner of said shop, Pops, which is located in Grand Lake, Ohio. Rebecca is often accompanied by Sprocket, her Poodle, as she finds herself solving mysteries. And, this series includes popcorn related recipes! As Eileen Carr she writes Stand Alone mysteries (romantic suspense) and as Eileen Rendahl she writes both Stand Alone mysteries, the Messenger Mystery Series (which is a best selling paranormal mystery series) and Stand Alone non-mysteries.

A fifth generation Texan, Julianna Deering (aka DeAnna Julie Dodson) is a big fan of quilting, cross stitching, and hockey. She is the author of the Drew Farthering Mystery Series. This series stars an English gentleman in the 1930s (Drew Farthering) and his American friend, Madeline Parker. As DeAnna Julie Dodson she has written several of the Annie’s Attic Mystery Series and Annie’s Secrets of the Quilt Mystery Series.

 Ann Myers might live in Colorado, but she loves Santa Fe so much that she wrote about it in her Santa Fe Café Mystery Series. This series stars the chef at a Santa Fe café, Rita Lafitte. So far, all of the mysteries set in the Tres Amigas Café have taken place during different holiday seasons. And as an added bonus, the series includes recipes!

 

 

 Janice Peacock has drawn on her own personal experience working in a glass studio to write the Glass Bead Mystery Series. This series stars Jax O’Connell, a glass beadmaker and jeweler in Seattle, Washington.

I hope you enjoy all these newly added authors!

Favorite Summer Cozy Mysteries!

summerWow, it feels like it’s already summer down here in San Antonio! But at the same time >>> the year seems to be going so quickly that I can’t believe summer’s almost here! Whenever the weather starts getting hot (and here in Texas it gets pretty doggone hot pretty quickly), I’m sure to start thinking about reading summer-themed Cozies.

I was thinking maybe we could compile a list of our ultra favorite Summer Cozy Mysteries.

As you all might be aware, we do already have a Summer Cozy Mystery Theme page. So what I’m talking about isn’t necessarily just every possible summer themed Cozy Mystery you can think up >>> that’s what the theme page is for after all! Instead I’m just looking for a short number of your “personal favorites” so to speak, so just one pick (or maybe two or three) would be great! And yes, considering that all three are squarely within the summer time frame, some of your favorite Fourth of July Mystery Cozies, Father’s Day Mystery Cozies, and Labor Day Mystery Cozies would definitely be appropriate recommendations! (Of course, feel free to recommend Cozies that aren’t already on those lists!)

I’ll put up a few quick recommendations of my own, just to get things started. Please leave a comment to add your favorites.

FAVORITE SUMMER COZY MYSTERIES:

Donald Bain & “Jessica Fletcher”: Murder on Parade (I couldn’t stop myself and read this holiday Cozy out of chronological order!)

Donna Andrews: Some Like It Hawk

Susan Bernhardt: Murder by Fireworks

Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra): Oh Say Can You Fudge

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Murder Most Frothy

Isis Crawford (akaBarbara Block): A Catered Fourth of July

Kathi Daley: Bikinis in Paradise

Joanne Fluke: Lemon Meringue Pie Murder 

Shelley Freydont: Independence Slay

Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper & Donna Lea Simpson): Bowled Over

Lee Harris: 

Leslie Meier: Tippy Toe Murder

P.S. If you want to see a whole bunch of Cozy Mystery themes, visit the Cozy Mysteries by Themes page on my site. But, if you’re only interested in Cozies with holiday themes, visit the Holiday Mystery Book List page on my site.

Cozy Mystery News – June 2016

I hate to start this Cozy Mystery tidbit entry with bad news >>> but it is! Some of you have told us about CBS’ new Nancy Drew television show. Apparently CBS had the pilot made, but decided against buying it. There are conflicting stories about why the pilot wasn’t bought by CBS, one of which is that it was just too feminine. (Imagine that! A show based on a female sleuth was just too feminine!) In all fairness,  the president of the network later said they also passed on other shows, and that the feminine factor wasn’t the reason they chose to pass on this project.

On to the good news points of interest…

 Susan Furlong (aka Lucy Arlington) will be writing a new suspense series with a sleuth who was once a police in the military and is now an “Irish Traveller”. As a lot of you know, Susan writes both the Georgia Peach and the Pippi O’Brienthe mysteries as well as the Novel Idea mysteries which she writes as Lucy Arlington.

It looks like Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins will be busy in yet another of their sleuthing situations! D.E. Ireland (aka Sharon Farrow & Meg Macy) will be featured in their third: Get Me to the Grave on Time. But wait, that’s not the only good news! There will then be two more mysteries that follow this one! (Sharon Farrow also writes the Berry Basket Mystery Series.)

Here’s some terrific news for Cozy Mystery readers who love cats, pets, or simply love Cozies! T.C. LoTempio (aka Toni LoTempio) will be starting a new series called the Cat Rescue Mystery Series. Purr M for Murder (how about that for a clever title?) will be the first book in this series which is set in a shelter for animals. LoTempio currently writes the Nick & Nora Mystery Series.

 Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence) will be releasing the ninth Cozy in her Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series, titled Caramel Crush. Now that’s great news! (McKinlay also writes the Library Lover’s series as well as the Hat Shop Mystery Series. As Josie Belle she writes the GoodBuy Girls mysteries, and as Lucy Lawrence she writes the Decoupage Mystery Series.)

Some of us have followed the exploits of Lucy Stone for years! Leslie Meier writes the very popular Lucy Stone (holiday) Mystery Series, and she will be releasing the 24th in the series, Turkey Trot Murder. However, the good news doesn’t stop here! She has just been green-lighted for at least three more mysteries in this series. Yahoo!

Here’s some more good news: Dorothy St. James (who writes the White House Gardener Mystery Series) has just been given the go-ahead for a new Cozy Mystery series: the Chocolate Shop series. The sleuth will own a gourmet shop in an “artsy” community in South Carolina.

And for those of you who read Maggie Toussaint‘s Dreamwalker Mystery Series >>> her sleuth, Baxley Powell will be featured in two more mysteries as she communicates telepathically with the pets she takes care of in Georgia. Dadgummit and Counfound It will be the next two in this series. Toussaint also writes the Cleopatra Jones and the Moss Bog mystery series.

And, that’s a wrap!

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