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Mysteries with Recipes AND Recipe Books by Mystery Authors

I have had several comments and letters asking me to compile a list of Mysteries with Recipes. At first I thought this would be a rather daunting theme. I mean, I don’t read all of the authors who happen to have recipes in their Cozy Mysteries. Obviously I know which of my favorite authors include recipes in their mysteries, but what about those who I don’t read? And what about those authors of mysteries who I do read, but have forgotten they include recipes?

Aha, that’s where you ALL come in. If you know of an author of mysteries books who I have forgotten to include, who has recipes in his/her books, please post a comment.

Authors Who Write Mysteries with Recipes:

Avery Aames (aka Daryl Wood Gerber): Cheese Shop Mystery Series

Kathy Aarons: Chocolate Covered Mystery Series

Allyson K. Abbott (aka Annelise Ryan & Beth Amos): Mack’s Bar Mystery Series (both alcoholic and non drinks)

Kristi Abbott: Gourmet Popcorn Shop Mystery Series

Ellery Adams (aka Jennifer Stanley, J. B. Stanley, & 1/2 of Lucy Arlington): Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery Series

Riley Adams (aka Elizabeth Spann Craig & Elizabeth Craig): Memphis BBQ Mystery Series

Susan Wittig Albert: Darling Dahlia Mystery Series

Susan Wittig Albert: China Bayles Mystery Series

Ellie Alexander: Bakeshop Mystery Series

Connie Archer: Soup Lover’s Mystery Series

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince from the Aunt Dimity Mystery Series

Judy Baer: Recipes and Wooden Spoons (Book #3 in Tales from Grace Chapel Hill)

Mignon F. Ballard: Augusta Goodnight Mystery Series

Lorna Barrett (aka Lorraine Bartlett & L. L. Bartlett): Booktown Mystery Series

Jessica Beck: Donut Shop Mystery Series

Maymee Bell (aka Tonya Kappes): Southern Cake Baker Mystery Series

Claudia Bishop (aka Mary Stanton): The Case of the Ill-Gotten Goat from Casebook of Dr McKenzie Mystery Series

Claudia Bishop (aka Mary Stanton): Hemlock Falls Mystery Series

Bethany Blake: Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery Series (recipes for pets)

Miranda Bliss (aka Kylie Logan & Casey Daniels): Cooking Class Mystery Series

Jacklyn Brady (aka Sherry Lewis): A Piece of Cake Mystery Series

Kathleen Bridge: Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery Series

Julia Buckley: Undercover Dish Mystery Series

Leslie Budewitz: Food Lovers’ Village Mystery Series and Seattle Spice Shop Mystery Series

Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib): Key West Food Critic Mystery Series

V.M. Burns: RJ Franklin Mystery Series

Janet Cantrell (aka Kaye George): Fat Cat Mystery Series (recipes for people and cat treats)

Grace Carroll (aka Carol Culver): Accessory Mystery Series

Sammy Carter: Candy Shop Mystery Series

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

Chris Cavender (aka Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, Casey Mayes, & Tim Myers): Pizza Lovers Mystery Series

Laura Childs: Tea Shop Mysteries AND Scrapbooking Mysteries AND Cackleberry Club Mystery Series

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London ): Gourmet De-Lite Mystery Series

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Cranberry Cove Mystery Series

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

Susan Conant & Jessica Conant-Park: Gourmet Girl Mystery Series

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Orchard Mystery Series

J. J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene): Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mystery Series

Maya Corrigan: Five-Ingredient Mystery Series

Shelley Costa: Miracolo Mystery Series

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Coffee House Mystery Series

Philip R. Craig:  Martha’s Vineyard Mystery Series

Isis Crawford (aka Barbara Block): Mysteries with Recipes Mystery Series

Carol Culver (aka Grace Carroll): Pie Shop Mystery Series

Kathi Daley: Zoe Donovan Mystery Series

Diane Mott Davidson: Goldy Bear Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Domestic Diva Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Paws and Claws Mystery Series (recipes for both pets and their owners)

Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): Country Store Mystery Series

Gale Deitch: Trudie Fine Mystery Series

Devon Delaney: Cook-Off Mystery Series

Christine DeSmet: Fudge Shop Mystery Series

Denise Dietz: Diet Club Mystery Series

Leighann Dobbs: Lexy Baker Mystery Series

Peggy Ehrhart: Knit & Nibble Mystery Series

Nancy Fairbanks (aka Nancy Herndon): Culinary Food Writer Mystery Series

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series

Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swensen Mystery Series

Sarah Fox: Pancake House Mystery Series

Susan Furlong (aka Lucy Arlington & Susan Furlong-Bolliger): Georgia Peach Mystery Series

Rosie Genova: Italian Kitchen Mystery Series

Daryl Wood Gerber (aka Avery Aames): Cookbook Nook Mystery Series

Debra H. Goldstein : Sarah Blair Mystery Series (quick and easy recipes)

Sarah Graves: Death by Chocolate Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Corinna Chapman Mystery Series

Nancy Haddock: Silver Six Crafty Mystery Series

Gemma Halliday: Wine & Dine Mystery Series

Victoria Hamilton: Merry Muffin Mystery Series

Susannah Hardy (aka Sadie Hartwell): Greek to Me Mystery Series

B. B. Haywood: Candy Holliday Mystery Series

Betty Hechtman: Yarn Retreat Mystery Series

A.L. Herbert: Mahalia Watkins Soul Food Mystery Series

Lee Hollis: Hailey Powell Food & Cocktail Mystery Series

Mary Ellen Hughes: Pickled and Preserved Mystery Series

Julie Hyzy: White House Chef Mystery Series

Leslie Karst: Sally Solari Mystery Series

Tina Kashian: Kebab Kitchen Mystery Series

Josi S. Kilpack: Culinary Mystery Series

Kelly Lane: Olive Grove Mystery Series

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Pumpkin Patch Mystery Series

Elizabeth Lee (aka Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli): Nut House Mystery Series

Liz Lipperman (aka Lizbeth Lipperman): Clueless Cook Mystery Series

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Chili Cook-Off Mystery Series

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Ethnic Eats Mystery Series

Colette London: Chocolate Whisperer Mystery Series

Virginia Lowell: Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery Series

Karen MacInerney: Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Local Foods Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay (aka Lucy Lawrence & Josie Belle): Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series

Donna McLean: Ms. Tilda’s Best Recipes (cookbook related to the Sparrow Falls Mystery Series)

Liz Mugavero: Pawsitively Organic Gourmet Pet Food Mystery Series (includes pet treat recipe)

Ann Myers: Santa Fe Cafe Mystery Series

Tim Myers (aka Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, Chris Cavender, Casey Mayes, Jessica Beck, & D.B. Morgan): Candlemaking Mystery Series

Katherine Hall Page: Faith Fairchild Mystery Series

Nancy J. Parra (aka Nancy Coco): Baker’s Treat Mystery Series

Allison Cesario Paton: Mrs. Bundle Mystery Series

Andrea Penrose: Lady Arianna Regency Mystery Series

Cate Price: Deadly Notions Mystery Series

Hannah Reed (aka Deb Baker): Queen Bee Mystery Series

Virginia Rich: Eugenia Potter Mystery Series

Delia Rosen: Deadly Deli Mystery Series

Ann B. Ross: Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble from the Miss Julia Mystery Series

Michele Scott: Wine Lover’s Mystery Series

Paige Shelton: Farmers’ Market Mysteries AND Country Cooking School Mystery Series

Joanna Cambell Slan: Kiki Lowenstein Scrab-N-Craft Mystery Series

Karen Rose Smith: Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery Series

J. B. Stanley (aka Jennifer Stanley, Ellery Adams, 1/2 of Lucy Arlington): Supper Club Mystery Series

Lou Jane Temple: Spice Box Historical Mystery Series

Gayle Trent (aka Amanda Lee): Daphne Martin Cake Mystery Series

Teresa Trent: Pecan Bayou Mystery Series

Diane Vallere: Costume Shop Mystery Series

Ann Waldron: Princeton Murders Mystery Series

Livia J. Washburn: Fresh-Baked Mystery Series

Kirsten Weiss: Doyle Mystery Series – Susan Witsend is the owner of a UFO themed bed and breakfast. These mysteries contain breakfast recipes in them.

Melinda Wells (aka Linda Palmer): Della Cooks Mystery Series

Christine Wenger: Comfort Food Mystery Series

Linda Wiken (aka Erika Chase): Dinner Club Mystery Series

 

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Here are some Recipe Books by Cozy Mystery Authors:

Ellery Adams, Deb Baker, Lorraine Bartlett, Kate Collins, Maggie Sefton, Leann Sweeney, & Heather Webber:  The Cozy Chicks Kitchen

Tea Time with the Cozy Chicks – Ellery Adams, Lorraine Bartlett, Duffy Brown, Kate Collins, Mary Kennedy, Mary Jane Maffini, Maggie Sefton, & Leann Sweeney >>> Recipes, Tea Menus, and More!

Patricia Cornwell: Scarpetta’s Winter Table

Diane Mott Davidson: Goldy’s Kitchen Cookbook

Joanne Fluke’s Lake Eden Cookbook: Hannah Swensen’s Recipes from the Cookie Jar

Nancy Lynn Jarvis, editor: Cozy Food: 128 Cozy Mystery Writers Share Their Favorite Recipes

Julie Murphy & Sally Abney Stempinski: The Cat Who … Cookbook

Katherine Hall Page: Have Faith in Your Kitchen

The Cozy Cookbook: More than 100 Recipes from Today’s Bestselling Mystery Authors (with Avery Aames, Ellery Adams, Leslie Beudewitz, Laura Childs, Cleo Coyle, Victoria Hamilton, B.B. HAywood, Julie Hyzy, Jenn McKinlay, & Paige Shelton)

Here are some more of my CULINARY – COOKING THEMES:

Cozy Mystery Authors with Culinary Themes: A – D

Cozy Mystery Authors with Culinary Themes: F – K

Cozy Mystery Authors with Culinary Themes: L – R

Cozy Mystery Authors with Culinary Themes: S – W Plus Some!

Cozy Mystery Authors with Culinary Themes: Even More!

Where to Start with Culinary Cozy Mystery Series…

For any additions or corrections, please post a comment. Thank you!

♦To access a whole lot more Cozy Mysteries by Theme click on this link.♦

Who Are These Mystery Characters In My Mystery Book?!?

A while ago (and I’m embarrassed at how long it has taken me to post this!) Regina sent me a letter about the following:

“… I am becoming a little annoyed with authors who write long series of books and in the latest book refer to characters who have appeared in previous books. If an author writes a book every year in a series, I, for one, can only remember the basics of the last book but not every minor character. This has happened to me again as I started to read ***** *****’s newest book and I could not remember most of the characters. I bought the last book for my Nook so I could become familiar with the newest book characters.”

This sort of has a connection with what I feel about the times my favorite Cozy Mystery authors have their sleuths visit a far away place. I don’t  usually like the out of town trips because I feel like I get invested with the main character’s small circle of secondary and tertiary home town characters.

I liken what you are talking about with my sleuth coming back to her home town for the next three books and then in the fourth book, one of the secondary or tertiary characters from out of town comes to visit. It’s at those times that I think “Who is this person?”

How do you feel about an author bringing back a character from a long time ago? Do you think the author is simply trying to “liven things up”? Do you find yourself having to “look up” who that character is/was? OR Is your memory better than ours?

Mystery Book Themes: Full-Figured Sleuths (Plus Sized Sleuths)

Here’s another comment, this time from *Susan:

“Danna, could we possibly have a blog entry on Mysteries with Real Women? Please?

Among my recommendations would be Anne Purser, whose middle-aged wife-and-mother sleuth works as a house-cleaner, (Just an ordinary, everyday, real-life woman!) along with both the G.A. McKevett mysteries featuring Savannah Reid, and the ‘Corinna Chapman’ mysteries by Kerry Greenwood.
Reid is a plus-sized Southern PI who likes to eat, and says if anyone else doesn’t like it, too bad!!
Corinna is a Size 20 Australian baker with a similar attitude. (And a gorgeous lover, to boot! (*Jealous Hmph!*)
Marcia Talley is another candidate. Her heroine is a married woman, post-mastectomy for breast cancer, who has decided that a (Surgical) replacement breast is not for her.
The list might also include some of the Senior Sleuths, such as Sue Henry’s Maxie (And her Daschund, Stretch!) who decided, post-retirement, to go travelling on her own, in a camper – And why not!

Underdressed / under-fed 20-something darlings Need Not Apply!!”

Here are the Full-Figured Sleuths (Plus-Sized Sleuths):

Cathy Ace: Cait Morgan Mysteries

Melissa Bourbon (aka Misa Ramirez): Lola Cruz Mysteries

Simon Brett: Melita Margeter Mysteries

Simon Brett: Fethering Mysteries

Meg Cabot: Heather Wells Mysteries

Dorothy Cannell: Ellie Haskell Mysteries (Plus size in first book only.)

Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin Mysteries

Selma Eichler: Desiree Shapiro Mysteries

Shamini Flint: Inspector Singh Mysteries (not a woman, but is plus-sized)

Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swensen Cookie Jar Mysteries (I’ve only read the first few books so I don’t know when Hannah gains the weight.)

Anne George: Southern Sisters Mysteries

Kerry Greenwood: Corinna Chapman Mysteries

Ellie Griffiths: Ruth Galloway Mysteries (not  really cozies)

Sue Henry: Maxie & Stretch Mysteries

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Odelia Grey Mysteries

Laura Levine: Jaine Austen Mystery Series

Kathryn Lilley: Fat City Mysteries

Mary Marks: Martha Rose Quilting Mystery Series

G.A. McKevett: Savannah Reid Mysteries

Camille Minichino: Periodic Table Mysteries

Ann Morven: Sheil B. Wright Mysteries

Mary Grace Murphy: Noshes Up North Mystery Series

Lynne Murray: Josephine Fuller Mysteries

Barbara Neely: Blanche White Mysteries

Anne Purser: Lois Meade Mysteries

Annelise Ryan (aka Beth Amos): Mattie Winston Mysteries

Susan Santangelo: Baby Boomer Mysteries

Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Mysteries

J. B. Stanley: Supper Club Mysteries

Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe (a bit more traditional than Cozy, but close enough…)

Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mysteries

Marcia Talley: Hannah Ives Mysteries

Can you think of any Cozy Mystery authors who have full-figured sleuths? (By “full-figured” I mean Plus Sized.) Please post a comment with your suggested authors. I will add them to the list. Thank you!

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August 2013 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in August 2013:

Laurien Berenson: Gone with the Woof (This will be the 16th in the Melanie Travis Mystery Series.)

Gail Bowen: The Gifted (This will be the 14th in the Joanne Kilbourn Mystery Series.)

Rhys Bowen: Heirs and Graces (This will be the 7th in the Royal Spyness Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Remnants of Murder (This will be the 8th in the Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series.)

Erika Chase: Cover Story (This will be the 3rd in the Ashton Corners Mystery Series.)

Alys Clare: Land of the Silver Dragon (This will be the 5th in the Aelf Fen Mystery Series.)

Barbara Cleverly: A Spider in the Cup (This will be the 11th in the Joe Sandilands Mystery Series.)

Kate Collins: Seed No Evil (This will be the 14th in the Flower Shop Mystery Series.) (This is a wedding theme mystery.)

Bill Crider: Compound Murder (This will be the 20th in the Dan Rhodes Mystery Series.)

Diane Mott Davidson: The Whole Enchilada (This will be the 17th in the Goldy Bear Mystery Series.)

Carole Nelson Douglas: Cat in an Alien X-Ray (This will be the 25th in the Midnight Louie Mystery Series.)

Shelley Freydont: Cold Turkey (This will be a Novella in the Celebration Bay Mystery Series.) (This is a Thanksgiving theme mystery.)

David Handler: Runaway Man (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Faye Kellerman: The Beast (This will be the 21st in the Decker & Lazarus Mystery Series.)

William Kent Krueger: Tamarack County (This will be the 13th in the Cork O’Connor Mystery Series.)

Amanda Lee (aka Gayle Trent): Cross-Stitch before Dying (This will be the 6th in the Embroidery Mystery Series.)

Nancy Martin: Little Black Book of Murder (This will be the 9th in the Blackbird Sisters Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Lucy Lawrence & Josie Belle): Cloche and Dagger (This will be the 1st in the NEW Hat Shop Mystery Series.)

Sharon Pape:  Alibis and Amethysts (This will be the 1st in the NEW Crystal Shop Mystery Series.

James Patterson & David Ellis: Mistress (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Louise Penny: How the Light Gets In (This will be the 9th in the Armand Gamache Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Kathy Reichs: Bones of the Lost (This will be the 16th in the Temperance Brennan Mystery Series.)

Delia Rosen: From Herring to Eternity (This will be the 4th in the Deadly Deli Mystery Series.)

Maggie Sefton: Poisoned Politics (This will be the 2nd in the Molly Malone Mystery Series.)

Paige Shelton: If Bread Could Rise to the Occasion (This will be the 3rd in the Country Cooking School Mystery Series.)

Marcia Talley: Dark Passage (This will be the 12th in the Hannah Ives Mystery Series.) (Actually, September 1.)

Robert K. Tanenbaum: Tragic (This will be the 26th in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Mystery Series.)

Charles Todd: A Question of Honor (This will be the 5th in the Bess Crawford Mystery Series.)

Lauren Willig: The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (This will be the 10th in the Pink Carnation Mystery Series.)

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