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A Little of This and a Little of That… (A Few Updates)

I have gotten some letters and/or comments with updates that I missed on some of “my” authors on the Cozy Mystery site. Thanks to those of you who sent me corrections/additions. Here are the pages I recently fixed:

Arlene Sachitano: I have added the mystery books I was missing from her Harriet Truman / Loose Threads Mystery Series. I try to stay on top of it with “my” authors, but every once in a while, I don’t!

Debbie Macomber: Yes, yes, I know Macomber doesn’t write mystery books, but I had several people suggest I add her “good feeling” books to the site, so I did. Every once in a while I have to remember to check and see if she has new books out. Lucky for her readers, she usually does! (Some of you know her from the fact that both of her Mrs. Miracle books were made into Christmas movies for the Hallmark channel.)

Edward Marston (aka Keith Miles & Conrad Allen): I had forgotten to add a few of his mystery books in the Redmayne & Bale Mystery Series. I think I have his page correct now.

I don’t sew, but I always look forward to watching the PBS Sewing with Nancy shows – especially the last ten minutes of each show – where she highlights a unique style of sewing or a person with special sewing abilities. One of the recent shows I watched had Jennifer Chiaverini on, talking about her Elm Creek Quilts Series of books. That reminded me that I had to update her page, which I did.

Barb (who was so fantastic about keeping me in the loop for Guidepost’s Patchwork Mystery Series) has just started telling me about Guidepost’s new series: Secrets of Mary’s Bookshop. Thank you, Barb!

Also, Edie Claire‘s seventh Leigh Koslow mystery is out. (I don’t know how I missed this book, since Claire is one of my favorite authors.) The e-book format of Never Haunt a Historian is already out, and the Never Haunt a Historian paperback will be following very shortly.

Let’s see, I’m trying to remember if there is anything else I have been working on that I need to tell you all about. I have gone through all of my notes, and I think this should do it.

P.S. >>> I just found one more note to myself. I also updated Suzanne Adair‘s page to include her second Revolutionary War Mystery Series.

Mystery Authors Akin to Elizabeth Peters…

This comment is from Amy. She is looking for suggestions of authors she might enjoy reading next, based on her previous mystery book encounters. Amy asks:

“I am looking for new authors to read. I really enjoyed Elizabeth Peters’ stand alone books and the Vicki Bliss series but I have finished them. I also really enjoyed some of Mary Stewart’s books. The settings are so well described that they make me want to travel. I am tired of spending money on what seems like a good mystery but it ends up being a smutty romance or has really horrible crime details. I like a romance as part of a mystery but I want mostly mystery and I don’t want explicit sex, gory murders, graphic violence or lots of bad language. (I can take a bit of sex and a bit of bad language, it just needs to be sparse.) I’m not into multiple partners. That’s not romantic. Any advice from others readers?”

Do any of you have any ideas as to whom Amy might enjoy reading next?

(By the way, Elizabeth Peters list is on my site here.)

Thank you for your help!

Cozy Mystery Book with a Touch of Paranormal, and a Whole Lot of Sweeping!

It’s that time again! I have a “notepad” called “Blog Entries” that I keep a list of questions and/or comments from some of you, so that I can get input (usually help!) from you all. This latest letter is from Adele. She writes:

“… I have been perusing your web site and trying to find a book that I read a few years back. Ok…I bought it in paperback from a local book dealer (not Amazon, so no record of purchase). The book is now long gone, but I would like to read more of this author. And silly me, of course I forgot to write down the author’s name.

I think it was a cooking cozy mystery. I’m pretty sure it took place somewhere in Boston – New England in general, definitely not Georgia. There is magic involved as one of the characters kept trying to make the shop broomstick fly and eventually did and it chased the culprit down the street. The broomstick always comes back to the owner. The owner of the shop is the protagonist. I don’t remember if it was a pie shop, muffin shop or bakery shop.

… Thanks for any clue or hint you can give me.”

I wrote to Adele and told her I would ask you all for your help in identifying the author of this book. (I also told her that we have a pretty good success rate!)

Thank you for your help!

June 2013 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in June 2013:

Jeffrey Allen: Father Knows Death (This will be the 3rd in the Stay at Home Dad Mystery Series.)

Mary Kay Andrews (aka Kathy Hogan Trochek): Ladies’ Night (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Janet Bolin: Thread and Buried (This will be the 3rd in the Threadville Mystery Series.)

Stephen Booth: Already Dead (This will be the 14th in the Cooper & Fry Mystery Series.)

Kate Carlisle: A Cookbook Conspiracy (This will be the 8th in the Bibliophile Mystery Series.)

Grace Carroll (aka Carol Culver): Murder After a Fashion (This will be the 3rd in the Accessories Mystery Series.)

Jane K. Cleland: Lethal Treasure (This will be the 8th in the Josie Prescott Mystery Series.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Steamed to Death (This will be the 2nd in the Gourmet De-Lite Mystery Series.)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Monument to the Dead (This will be the 4th in the Museum Mystery Series.)

Susan Rogers Cooper: Dark Waters (This will be the 12th in the Milt Kovak Mystery Series.)

Jeanne M. Dams: Murder at the Castle (This will be the 13th in the Dorothy Martin Mystery Series.)

Krista Davis: The Diva Frosts a Cupcake (This will be the 7th in the Domestic Diva Mystery Series.)

Lindsey Davis: The Ides of April (This will be the 1st in the NEW Flavia Albia Mystery Series.)

Jeffery Deaver: The Kill Room (This will be the 19th in the Lincoln Rhyme Mystery Series.)

Kerry Greenwood: Medea (This is a reprint of the 3rd in Greenwoods Delphic Women Trilogy.)

Beth Groundwater: Fatal Descent (This will be the 3rd in the Rocky Mountain Outdoor Adventures Mystery Series.)

Janice Hamrick: Death Rides Again (This will be the 3rd in the Jocelyn Shore Mystery Series.) (This is a Thanksgiving theme mystery book.)

Carl Hiaasen: Bad Monkey (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Tami Hoag: The 9th Girl (This will be the 4th in the Sam Kovac Mystery Series.)

Dorothy Howell: Evening Bags and Executions (This is the 7th in the Haley Randolph Mystery Series.)

Allison Kingsley (aka Kate Kingsbury & Rebecca Kent): Trouble Vision (This will be the 3rd in the Raven’s Nest Bookstore Mystery Series.)

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Mayhem at the Orient Express (This will be the 1st in the NEW League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series.)

Catriona McPherson: As She Left It (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Joyce Carol Oates: Bellefleur (This will be a Stand Alone.)

James Patterson & Howard Roughan: Second Honeymoon (This will be the 2nd in the Honeymoon Mystery Series.)

Kate Sedley: The Christmas Wassail (This will be the 22nd in the Roger the Chapman Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery book.) (Actually, July 1)

Maggie Sefton: Close Knit Killer (This will be the 11th in the Knitting Mystery Series.)

Clea Simon: Grey Dawn (This will be the 6th in the Dulcie Schwartz Mystery Series.)

Robert K. Tanenbaum: Tragic (This will be the 25th in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Mystery Series.)

Sue Owens Wright: Braced for Murder (This will be the 4th in the Beanie & Cruiser Mystery Series.)

To go back to the Cozy Mystery New Book Release page, click here.

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