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Mother’s Day Mystery Book List

Here are some mystery books that have a Mother’s Day theme.

Christine E. Collier…. A Holiday Sampler (Mother’s Day, Father’s Day)

Nancy Fairbanks…. Bon Bon Voyage

Martin Greenberg (editor)….. Murder for Mother (anthology)

Jane Haddam….. Murder Superior

Lee Harris….. The Mother’s Day Murder

Sue Ann Jaffarian ….. Pull My Paw (Short Story)

Patricia MacDonald…… Mother’s Day

Leslie Meier….. Mother’s Day Murder

Nancy Pickard (editor)….. Mom, Apple Pie & Murder (Anthology)

Joshua Quittner & Michelle Slatalla….. Mother’s Day

Motherhood Is Murder: Anthology with 4 mini-mysteries featuring mothers (not Mother’s Day) by Mary Daheim, Carolyn Hart, Jane Isenberg, & Shirley Rousseau Murphy

If you would like to see some other Holiday Mystery Book lists, please click here.

P.S. If you know of any other mystery books that have a Mother’s Day theme, I would appreciate it if you would post a comment. Thank you!

Laura Childs Interview – April 2014

Click here for the Interview with Laura Childs page.

I recently decided to try adding Cozy Mystery authors’ interviews as a semi-regular feature to the Cozy Mystery site. When I started thinking about this, I made up a tentative list of authors who I thought would be people from whom you all would enjoy hearing. I wanted to resume my author interviews with an author who you all have recommended many times on the monthly Cozy Mystery book recommendations lists. I thought best selling Laura Childs would be an ideal interviewee.

As most of you know, Ms. Childs is the author of three best selling series: the Tea Shop Mystery Series, the Scrapbooking Mystery Series, and the Cackleberry Club Mystery Series.

I want to publicly thank Laura Childs for providing this interview. I hope you all enjoy it!

Click here for the Interview with Laura Childs page.

P.S. Don’t forget to enter the Laura Childs Giveaway!

P.P.S. I also want to thank the Cozy Mystery readers who helped me come up with the questions I asked Ms. Childs. Thank you!

Laura Childs Giveaway – Enter Now!

***** Sorry, the Laura Childs Giveaway is officially over. Thanks for your participation.*****

As I have mentioned, best selling mystery author Laura Childs has graciously offered to give away four of her latest mystery books. She is providing two inscribed copies each of Eggs in a Casket and Steeped in Evil.

For a chance to win one of these four books, all you need to do is send an email to the following address:

giveaway@cozy-mystery.com

I’ll be accepting emails until 9:00 AM on Monday, May 12, 2014. After the contest closes, I’ll use Random.org to choose the four winners.

Only one entry per person, please. You are not required to write any content in the email. (I will not be responding to the entry emails.) The giveaway is limited to USA residents.

Good luck!

***** Sorry, the Laura Childs Giveaway is officially over. Thanks for your participation.*****

Malice Domestic Convention 2014 – 2013 Agatha Awards

Well, I guess we know where most of our favorite Cozy Mystery authors are right now, and what they are doing this weekend! That’s right, the 26th Malice Domestic Convention is underway right now in Bethesda, Maryland.

I have often said that out of all of the awards that are given to mystery authors/books, the Agatha Awards are by far the Coziest of Cozy! And, those are the very same awards that are being handed out this weekend at the 26th Malice Domestic Convention. (The Agatha Awards are so Cozy that they are actually tea pots that are inscribed!)

This is where some of our very favorite authors first came to our attention, either having been nominated or having won an award for his/her first mystery novel. If you take a look at the Agatha Awards Best First Novels page, you will (no doubt) recognize a lot of the authors. It seems like a lot of our favorite Cozy Mystery authors started winning awards right here.

Next take a look at the Agatha Awards Best Novel page. Yow! You will see more of our favorite Cozy Mystery authors on this page! Also, in 2011 they began giving the Agatha Awards Best Historical Novel awards. I can’t imagine why it took so long for them to add this category, but I’m certainly glad they did!

I have already listed the authors and their nominated mystery books on these pages. I’ll be posting the winners soon… very soon!

Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!

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