B.B. Cantwell, Jessie Crockett, Constance & Gwenyth Little, and Tyora Moody: Five New Authors on the Cozy Mystery Site
As I mentioned in my previous entry, here are the newest addition of Cozy Mystery authors who I have added to the site. These are authors who have been recommended by some of you who think they belong on the Cozy Mystery site.
B.B. Cantwell: Portland Bookmobile Mystery Series
The sleuth is named Hester McGarrigle and she is the librarian in Portland, Oregon who takes books to people in the library’s book mobile. (B.B. Cantwell is a husband and wife writing team made up of Brian and Barbara Cantwell. Brian is a newspaper journalist while Barbara was once a bookmobile librarian in Portland.)
Jessie Crockett: Sugar Grove Mystery Series AND Granite State Mystery Series
Dani Greene is the name of the main sleuth in Crockett’s Sugar Grove Mystery Series. Dani returns home to work on her family’s sugar maple farm in New Hampshire.
Constance & Gwenyth Little: Stand Alone Mysteries
There is some speculation that if these two sisters had written their mystery books in a series format, they would be much more well-known today. The two Australian-born sisters lived in New Jersey and collaborated on all of their mystery books. (All of the titles of their mysteries include the word “black” except for the first one, which has the color “grey” in it.)
Tyora Moody: Eugeena Patterson Mystery Series
Moody is a Christian author who writes this series which has, as its sleuth, Eugeena Patterson. Eugeena is a recently widowed grandmother who lives in South Carolina. she was previously a social studies teacher, but now she spends her time sleuthing. Unfortunately, Eugeena has been diagnosed with Diabetes, which has a part in the books.
Cozy Mystery Site’s History with Author Recommendations
When I started the Cozy Mystery (List) site, I only made pages for Cozy Mystery authors. They were the Cozy Mystery authors who I was currently reading at the time, or they were Cozy Mystery authors with whom I was familiar. All of the authors I posted were writers I could vouch for.
At first I didn’t swerve from the Cozy Mystery authors path. But little by little I started adding authors who were not Cozy Mystery authors, people like E. F. Benson, Colin Dexter, and Reginald Hill. These were all authors who I had read and enjoyed.
I then started getting recommendations of mystery authors. They were all authors who some of you thought the rest of us should know about. I got so many requests that I finally had to post (on my contact page) that I only wanted Cozy Mystery authors. For years, I would send a thank you message to each person who recommended a mystery author, but then I got so many requests that I had to start sending out a form letter advising the recommending person I had gotten his/her recommendation, and that I would take a look at their author later. (Which reminds me, I actually always look at the authors who are recommended. I either do a Google search, or in a lot of cases, the recommending person has sent me the author’s website, which I always look at.)
While I appreciate a lot of the recommendations I get, I have to say that I get a lot! I have now gone to a system that I never envisioned going to. I get so many recommendations that I now have posted:
… Since this is a Cozy Mystery site, please recommend only Cozy Mystery authors.
I am currently receiving so many requests that from here forward I will not be able to respond to each submittal. I’m sorry.
Yikes! This sounds rather impersonal for me to do, but my husband finally convinced me that I was spending way too much time thanking people for their recommendations, and way too little time actually posting new authors!
Having said that, I am going to go get some new authors posted on the site…
Hennepin County Judge & Minneapolis Sleuth = ?
Here is the third of these “identify the author” entries. Elise asks for our help with this:
I’ve been searching for a book I read in the early 90s by a local Minneapolis author. It was his debut novel and set in Minneapolis. I vaguely remember the plot involved the detective uncovering a secret of a Hennepin County judge that was involved in a young male prostitution ring of sorts.
I don’t remember the author or the name of the book. Any help would be appreciated!
So, if you know who Elise might possibly be looking for, please post a comment. Thank you!
