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Which Came First, the Chicken OR the Wrong Crowd?!? (Another Rant)

February 4, 2014

Have any of you ever noticed how many people “get in with the wrong crowd“?

Well, I have! I should probably tell you I watch several ID (Investigation Discovery) channel true crime shows.  (I should probably also tell you that this is an entry that has nothing to do with mystery books, Cozy, or non…)

It seems like more and more I hear the culprits on these shows described as something like  “He was a wonderful boy. He helped aged ladies across the street, he rescued cats from high tree branches, he knit blankets for the cold, but then he … got in with the wrong crowd.

It’s at this point that the television show lets us see our previously described Eagle Scout joining in with the wrong crowd as they smoke their cigarettes, drink their booze, and sit around all day tripping aged ladies as they cross the street.

Recently, every time I hear about the wrong crowd, I find myself wondering who the first person in this wrong crowd was. I mean, who established this wrong crowd? Why is it that the previously described Eagle Scout wasn’t the first member of this wrong crowd? Why does the TV show imply that had it not been for these other wrong crowd members, our upstanding guy would never have thought to massacre five people in his neighborhood, as well as the cat he had previously saved from the tree branch?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to continue watching my true crime shows, but I do think it would be downright refreshing if just once I heard the guilty described as: He/she started the wrong crowd.

What do you think? Did the wrong crowd always exist before the criminal joined it, or did the criminal actually start the wrong crowd?

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March 2014 Mystery Book New Releases

February 1, 2014

The following Mystery Books will be released in March 2014:

Jeffrey Archer: Be Careful What You Wish For (This will be the 4th in the Clifton Chronicles Mystery Series.)

Rhys Bowen: City of Darkness and Light (This will be the 13th in the Molly Murphy Mystery Series.)

Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey): Shunned and Dangerous (This will be the 3rd in the Amish Mystery Series.)

Duffy Brown: Pearls and Poison (This will be the 3rd in the Consignment Shop Mystery Series.)

Fiona Buckley: A Traitor’s Tears (This will be the 12th in the Ursula Blanchard Mystery Series.)

Alyse Carlson: Keeping Mum (This will be the 3rd in the Garden Society Mystery Series.)

Laura Childs: Steeped in Evil (This will be the 15th in the Tea Shop Mystery Series.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Iced to Death (This will be the 3rd in the Gourmet De-Lite Mystery Series.)

Clive Cussler & Justin Scott: The Bootlegger (This will be the 7th in the Isaac Bell Mystery Series.)

Mary Daheim: The Alpine Yeoman (This will be the 25th in the Emma Lord Alpine Mystery Series.)

Daryl Wood Gerber (aka Avery Aames): Inherit the Word (This will be the 2nd in the Cookbook Nook Mystery Series.)

Rebecca M. Hale: How to Paint a Cat (This will be the 5th in the Cats and Curios Mystery Series.)

David Handler: The Coal Black Asphalt Tomb (This will be the 10th in the Berger & Mitry Mystery Series.)

Veronica Heley: False Diamond (This will be the 8th in the Abbot Agency Mystery Series.)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Dummy of a Ghost (This will be a Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery novella.)

Josi S. Kilpack: Fortune Cookie (This will be the 10th in the Culinary Mystery Series.)

Molly MacRae: Spinning in Her Grave (This will be the 3rd in the Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery Series.)

G.A. McKevett: Killer Physique (This will be the 19th in the Savannah Reid Mystery Series.)

James Patterson & Marshall Karp: NYPD Red 2 (This will be the 2nd in the NYPD Red Mystery Series.)

Anne Perry: Death on Blackheath (This will be the 29th in the Thomas & Charlotte Pitt Mystery Series.)

Peter Robinson: Children of the Revolution (This will be the 21st in the Inspector Banks Mystery Series.)

David Rosenfelt: Without Warning (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Annelise Ryan (aka Allyson K. Abbot & Beth Amos): Board Stiff (This will be the 5th in the Mattie Winston Mystery Series.)

Catherine Shaw: Fatal Inheritance (This will be the 5th in the Vanessa Duncan Cambridge Mystery Series.) (This is a New Year’s Eve mystery.)

Clea Simon: Grey Howl (This will be the 7th in the Dulcie Schwartz Mystery Series.)

Nicola Slade: The Dead Queen’s Garden (This will be the 3rd in the Charlotte Richmond Investigates Mystery Series.)

Denise Swanson: Dead Between the Lines (This will be the 3rd in the Devereaux’s Dime Store Mystery Series.)

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Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for February 2014

January 31, 2014

These are the mystery movies that I have found which will be airing during February 2014. So far I have been able to find mystery movies that will be airing on both the Turner Classic Movie channel and the Hallmark Movie channel.

I have gone through TCM‘s Now Playing for February 2014 and see that there are a lot less mystery movies this month. The reason for this is that they are focusing on the Oscars, and are showing Oscar-related movies for thirty one days in a row. That’s a lot of really good viewing! But since I only focus (for the most part) on mystery movies, I won’t be highlighting all of TCM’s highlighted Oscar movies.

February 2014 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – February 2

5:00 AM
THE LETTER (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:15 PM
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – February 3

1:15 AM
SPELLBOUND (1945)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – February 4

2:45 PM
Z (1969)
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras Cast: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
C-127 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – February 6

12:15 PM
THE BAD SEED (1956)
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
C-129 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:30 PM
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
BW-134 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM
WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
C-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – February 7

5:30 AM
NIGHT MUST FALL (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, Dame May Whitty
BW-116 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – February 8

8:00 AM
CROSSFIRE (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:30 AM
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

7:00 PM
THE HEIRESS (1949)
A plain young woman’s money makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
BW-115 mins, TV-PG, CC
***This is not a mystery, but I absolutely love this movie. Olivia de Havilland is exceptional in this.***

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – February 10

8:30 PM
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
BW-120 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – February 11

7:30 AM
THE LADY EVE (1941)
A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him.
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
BW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC
***I’ve said this before, but this is one of my very favorite Barbara Stanwyck movies. It makes me laugh every time I see it. (This is not a mystery.) ***

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – February 12

3:00 PM
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – February 15

4:00 AM
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
C-82 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – February 16

9:00 AM
THE THIN MAN (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC

2:30 PM
THE LION IN WINTER (1968)
England’s Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir.
Dir: Anthony Harvey Cast: Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Merrow
C-134 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
***I think this movie is terrific. (It is not a mystery.)***

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – February 17

7:00 AM
GAMBIT (1966)
A man dreams of the perfect robbery but can’t seem to pull it off.
Dir: Ronald Neame Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom
C-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – February 18

8:45 AM
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968)
A bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring him in.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke
C-102 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – February 19

1:30 AM
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
BW-161 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – February 20

5:15 AM
THE LETTER (1929)
A planter’s wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what
happened.
Dir: Jean De Limur Cast: Jeanne Eagels, O. P. Heggie, Reginald Owen
BW-60 mins, TV-PG
***I have never seen this version of The Letter. I have enjoyed the 1940 version with Bette Davis, which they aired on February 2.***)

12:30 PM
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945)
A beautiful neurotic will stop at nothing to hold onto her husband’s love.
Dir: John M. Stahl Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain
C-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – February 22

12:00 AM
GASLIGHT (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – February 25

12:15 AM
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (1965)
A British agent infiltrates the enemy by allowing himself to be disgraced at home.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner
BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

7:30 AM
LIFEBOAT (1944)
Survivors of a torpedoed boat take in a German Naval officer from the sub that sank them.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak
BW-97 mins, TV-14, CC

9:15 AM
IN COLD BLOOD (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
BW-134 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – February 26

9:00 PM
THE LITTLE FOXES (1941)
An ambitious woman takes on her corrupt brothers and honest husband in her drive for wealth.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
BW-116 mins, TV-PG, CC
***Yow! The whole cast is terrific, and Bette Davis is phenomenally brutal! (This is not a mystery.)***

***** ***** ***** *****

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. I hope they don’t change their line-up!)

***** ***** ***** *****

Now, on to the mystery movies that will be playing on the Hallmark Movie channel during February 2014. I’m also listing the Hallmark Movie channel mystery movies in Central time zone.

February 2014 Hallmark Movie Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – February 2 through Monday – February 3

There will be a Murder, She Wrote marathon going all day on the Hallmark Movie channel. It will start at 8:00 AM on Sunday and run through Monday at 4:00 AM.

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – February 9

8:00 AM
McBride: Fallen Idol
McBride and Phil represent a young man accused of murdering a famous and success lawyer, who is also McBride’s mentor.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta DuBois, and Matt Lutz.

10:00 AM
McBride: Requiem
In life, Ava Fletcher was a virtuoso classical violinist and a darling of the critics, if not her peers. In death, she’s McBride’s new puzzle, and she’s got a grieving father eager to nail her low-class fiancé. McBride isn’t convinced, especially with an orchestra pit full of suspects all of who have solid motives for snipping Ava’s strings.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois and Matt Lutz

12:00 PM
McBride: Semper Fi
On a quiet street, in a seemingly ordinary home, a horrific crime has occurred, and a fireman and former marine medic is accused of killing his wife and daughters.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, and Matt Lutz.

2:00 PM
McBride: The Doctor is Out…Really Out
When therapist George Prescott is murdered, investigator Jim McBride is summoned to questions the doctor’s biggest head cases, including vindictive lovers, jealous colleagues, and vengeful rivals.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois,and Matt Lutz.

4:00 PM
McBride: Tune In For Murder
McBride’s case involves two larger than life radio stars who host the highly successful morning show “Ron and Bob.” But when Ron is murdered and all the evidence points to Bob, McBride and Phil begin investigating and what they turn up are a lot of unanswered questions.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, and Matt Lutz.

6:00 PM
McBride: Anybody Here Murder Marty?
When Tracy, an aspiring singer breaks up with her longtime boyfriend Joe on the set of a popular talk show, everyone assumes it’s nothing more than tv tabloid hijinks. But when the talk show host turns up dead, all evidence points to Joe. McBride must take center stage and clear his client of murder.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, and Matt Lutz.

8:00 PM
McBride: The Chameleon Murder
As a favor to a friend, defense attorney McBride takes on a client accused of murdering a woman. When McBride and his partner Phil investigate the deceased, they discover she had many identities and with each new life she was leading the list of suspects grows larger. Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, Matt Lutz.

10:00 PM
McBride: It’s Murder, Madam
An actress, furious that she has been duped into working at an escort service, goes to confront her boss about the situation. She is shocked when she discovers her boss’s dead body and is later arrested for the murder. Defense attorney McBride takes on the case to prove Marilyn is innocent.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, Matt Lutz.

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – February 10

12:00 AM
McBride: Dogged
The annual L.A. Kennel Club Dog Show gets treated to an unexpected surprise when a backstage murder incriminates the winning canine’s lovely handler.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta DuBois, and Matt Lutz.

2:00 AM
McBride: Murder Past Midnight
Ex-cop turned defense attorney, Jim McBride takes on a new and very beautiful client accused of murdering her husband.
Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, and Matt Lutz.

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – February 16

08:00 AM
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
Jesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she hopes he will reopen the case.
Stars Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, and William Devane.

10:00 AM
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Tom Selleck returns to the role of small town police chief Jesse Stone in this prequel to Stone Cold. His first assignment is to inestigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may or may not be tied in with a local domestic-abuse case.
Also stars Stephen Baldwin and Saul Rubinek.

12:00 PM
Jesse Stone: Stone Cold
Jesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of Paradise. When a series of murders takes place, he’s forced to face his own demons in order to solve the crimes.
Stars Tom Selleck and Mimi Rodgers.

02:00 PM
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Tom Selleck returns to the role of Jesse Stone, the troubled police chief of Paradise, Mass. As Stone obsesses on solving a local murder, he also works a domestic violence case and faces a run-in with Boston mobsters that may lead to grave consequences.
Stars Tom Selleck.

04:00 PM
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
The fourth installment of the Jesse Stone series finds restless New England police chief Stone fighting boredom by attempting to solve a twelve year-old cold case involving a murdered bank teller.
Stars Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker and Sean Young.

06:00 PM
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
Jesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she hopes he will reopen the case.
Stars Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker and William Devane.

08:00 PM
Jesse Stone: No Remorse
Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a crime spree in Paradise on their own. Jesse pours his energy into his work in an effort to push away his twin demons: booze and women. When his investigation leads to notorious mob boss Gino Fish, Jesse’s pursuit becomes hazardous.
Stars Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker and Kohl Sudduth.

10:00 PM
Jesse Stone: No Remorse
Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a crime spree in Paradise on their own. Jesse pours his energy into his work in an effort to push away his twin demons: booze and women. When his investigation leads to notorious mob boss Gino Fish, Jesse’s pursuit becomes hazardous.
Stars Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker and Kohl Sudduth.

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday- – February 17

12:00 AM
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Tom Selleck returns to the role of small town police chief Jesse Stone in this prequel to Stone Cold. His first assignment is to inestigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may or may not be tied in with a local domestic-abuse case.
Also stars Stephen Baldwin and Saul Rubinek.

02:00 AM
Jesse Stone: Stone Cold
Jesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of Paradise. When a series of murders takes place, he’s forced to face his own demons in order to solve the crimes.
Stars Tom Selleck and Mimi Rodgers.

***** ***** ***** *****

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the Hallmark Movie channel site.)

***** ***** ***** *****

If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during February 2014, please post a comment.

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Mystery Books Recommendations – January 2014

January 26, 2014

I am sorry, but I absolutely cannot believe that the first month in 2014 is coming to a close! It seems like it was just yesterday that we were all getting ready for Halloween yet, looking at my calendar, I can see that January is almost over.

So, being the end of January, it is the perfect time for me to ask you ALL if there is a Cozy Mystery book (or two, three, or even four!) that you read this past month, which you think the rest of us have absolutely, without a question, got to know about.  Also, would you tell us why you enjoyed that particular Cozy Mystery? (The reasons you like the book are what make the rest of us interested in your Cozy Mystery book recommendations.)

I am going to start with a Cozy Mystery book which I read this past month that made me add yet another author to my favorite authors list. The book I am talking about is by Mary V. Welk. I had been toying with the idea of reading her series for a while, but the thing that held me back was the fact that her last mystery was published in 2004. When I “try” authors, I prefer it if they are currently writing mysteries. (With all of the author cuts the publishers seemed to make a few years back, it has made me hesitant to start with an author I know is no longer writing. I prefer getting to know characters that have the possibility of continuing.)

When I saw that Mary V. Welk was again publishing her Rhodes to Murder Mystery Series (Criminal Mischief was published in October 2013) I decided to finally “try” her. Boy am I glad I did! (And boy, am I glad she’s publishing more Cozy Mysteries!) I usually don’t read Christmas theme mysteries after Christmas, but I decided that I would make this exception, since I had been wanting to read Welk’s books for a while.

I read Welk’s A Merry Little Murder (aka A Deadly Little Christmas), the first mystery in the Rhodes to Murder series. This series features Caroline Rhodes, a nurse who has relocated to a small Illinois college town so that she can be close to her son and daughter in law. Caroline has recently lost her husband, and is trying to start her life without him. It hasn’t been an easy road for her. Caroline befriends Professor Carl Atwater (or more accurately, he befriends her) and together they try to solve the mystery of a rather dangerous Christmas tree.

I enjoyed the setting of Welk’s A Merry Little Murder. The little college town is very Cozy, and of course, being Illinois at Christmas time, it was cold and snowy… exactly what I enjoy reading during our 70º winter days. Also, I liked Caroline. She is a flawed woman, but smart. She is a very believable “person”, a fleshed-out character for me. She is someone I could envision knowing and liking. Her relationships with both her son and daughter in law seem real to me. And the fact that she can have a male side-kick who is not a love interest nor a policeman/detective is an added bonus for me!

When I finished the mystery I felt like I was leaving Caroline and wanted to know what she would do next. She was that “real” to me.

[As usual, I ask that you don’t tell us about the mystery books you read that you didn’t like.]

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to their page on the Cozy Mystery site. Their page has all of the author’s books listed chronologically.]

What Cozy Mystery book (or author) have you read during January 2014, and why did you enjoy it (or him/her)?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read this past month:

Victoria Abbott (aka Jary Jane Maffini & Victoria Maffini): Book Collector’s Mystery Series

Robin Allen: Poppy Markham: Culinary Cop Mystery Series

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series

Anne Canadeo: Black Sheep Knitting Mystery Series

Laurie Cass: Bookmobile Cat Mystery Series

Bailey Cates (aka Cricket McRae): Magical Bakery Mystery Series

Joelle Charbonneau: Rebecca Robbins Mystery Series

Laura Childs: Tea Shop Mystery Series

Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra): Candy-Coated Mystery Series

Hy Conrad: Mr. Monk Mystery Series

Jana DeLeon: Miss Fortune Mystery Series

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Penny Brannigan Mystery Series

Jerrilyn Farmer: Madeline Bean Mystery Series

Barbara Graham: Quilted Mystery Series

Virginia Hamilton: Vintage Kitchen Mystery Series

Betty Hectman: Crochet Mystery Series

Joan Hess: Claire Malloy Mystery Series

Ellen Elizabeth Hunter: Magnolia Mystery Series

Miranda James (aka Dean James, Honor Hartman, & Jimmie Ruth Evans): Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series

Carol Ann Martin: Weaving Mystery Series

Maggie Sefton: Molly Malone Mystery Series

Deborah Sharp: Mace Bauer Mystery Series

Livia J. Washburn: Fresh-Baked Mystery Series

Mary V. Welk: Rhodes to Murder Mystery Series

Christine Wenger: Do or Diner

Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series

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