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Mystery Book with Older Russian Man Giving the Boot to Former Dance Instructor…

Susan commented that she would like to find the author of this book. Since you all are so good about identifying “missing” authors, I thought the sooner the better. I know the frustration involved when I can’t place an author.

Susan:

“Looking for a mystery about a former dance instructor who is dumped by her husband, an older Russian man who is on a “Dancing with the Stars” kind of show. The woman has to go live with her father in a Seniors community.

This just came out and I cannot remember the title of the book. Please help!“

Yikes, I guess I’m going to have to come clean and tell you that Susan posted this comment in October 2012, that should help with the last clue she provided in her description.

Thank you!

Cozy Mystery Book with Mediterranean Sailing…

I have quite a few questions from Cozy Mystery readers and right now I am making an effort to finally go through them. I am so embarrassed about how long it is taking me to post some of them. Embarrassed enough that I am not going to tell you all when these questions came in. So, you know that means they are from a while back!

This question is from Phyllis:

“I have been trying to remember the title of a cozy that I read several years ago, which mentioned some sailing in the Mediterranean with stops in Puerto Banus and Marbella, Spain…“

If you think you might know who the author or book is that Phyllis is referring to, please post a comment. Thank you!

April 2013 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in April 2013:

Susan Wittig Albert: Widow’s Tears (This will be the 21st in the China Bayles Mystery Series.)

Laura Alden: Curse of the PTA (This will be the 4th in the Beth Kennedy PTA Mystery Series.)

Barbara Allan: Antiques Chop (This will be the 7th in the Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery Series.)

Connie Archer: A Broth of Betrayal (This will be the 2nd in the Soup Lover’s Mystery Series.)

Jeffrey Archer: Best Kept Secret (This will be the 3rd in the Clifton Chronicles Series.)

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince (This will be the 18th in the Aunt Dimity Mystery Series.)

Donald Bain & “Jessica Fletcher”: Prescription for Murder (This will be the 39th in the Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series.)

David Baldacci: The Hit (This will be the second in the Will Robie Mystery Series.)

Linda Barnes: The Perfect Ghost (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Ella Barrick (aka Laura DiSilverio & Lila Dare): The Homicide Hustle (This will be the 3rd in the Ballroom Dance Mystery Series.)

Jessica Beck: A Baked Ham (This will be the 4th in the Classic Diner Mystery Series.)

Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber): The Good, the Bad, and the Witchy (This will be the 3rd in the Wishcraft Mystery Series.)

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Takes Tea at Three (This is a Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series omnibus. It contains books 7, 8, & 9.)

Susanna Calkins: A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate (This will be the 1st in the NEW Lucy Campion Mystery Series.)

Joelle Charbonneau: End Me a Tenor (This will be the 2nd in the Glee Club Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme novel.)

Mary Higgins Clark: Daddy’s Gone A Hunting (This will be a Stand Alone.)

J. J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene): That Old Flame of Mine (This will be the 1st in the NEW Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mystery Series.)

Waverly Curtis: Chihuahua Confidential (This will be the 2nd in the Barking Detective Mystery Series.)

Laura DiSilverio (aka Ella Barrick & Lila Dare): Malled to Death (This will be the 3rd in the Mall Cop Mystery Series.)

Vicki Doudera: Final Settlement (This will be the 4th in the Darby Farr Mystery Series.)

Hallie Ephron: There Was an Old Woman (This will be a Stand Alone.)

“Jessica Fletcher” & Donald Bain: Prescription for Murder (This will be the 39th in the Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series.)

Sara Hoskinson Frommer: Her Brother’s Keeper (This will be the 7th in the Joan Spencer Mystery Series.)

Sarah Graves: A Bat in the Belfry (This will be the 16th in the Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery Series.)

Susanna Gregory: Death in St James’s Park (This will be the 8th in the Thomas Chaloner Mystery Series.)

Susanna Gregory: Murder by the Book (This will be the 18th in the Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew Mystery Series.)

Iris Johansen: Taking Eve (This will be the 15th in the Eve Duncan Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Lucy Lawrence & Josie Belle): Going, Going, Ganache (This will be the 5th in the Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series.)

Marie Moore: Game Drive (This will be the 2nd in the Sydney March Mystery Series.)

Katherine Hall Page: The Body in the Piazza (This will be the 21st in the Faith Fairchild Mystery Series.)

James Patterson & Maxine Paetro: 12th of Never (This will be the 12th in the Women’s Murder Club Mystery Series.)

Anne Perry: Midnight at Marble Arch (This will be the 28th in the Thomas & Charlotte Pitt Mystery Series.)

Ann B. Ross: Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble (This will be the 14th in the Miss Julia Mystery Series.)

Lisa Scottoline: Don’t Go (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Clea Simon: Parrots Prove Deadly (This will be the 3rd in the Pru Marlowe, Pet Noir Mystery Series.)

Joanna Campbell Slan: Death of a Dowager (This will be the 2nd in the Jane Eyre Chronicles Mystery Series.)

Dorothy St. James: Oak and Dagger (This will be the 3rd in the White House Gardener Mystery Series.)

Aimée & David Thurlo: A Time of Change (This will be the 1st in the NEW Navajo Rez Mystery Series.)

Lea Wait: Shadows on a Cape Cod Wedding (This will be the 6th in the Antique Print Mystery Series.)

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

Cynthia Gallant-Simpson, Stuart M. Kaminsky, K. D. McCrite, & Patricia Rockwell – Four Author Additions to the Cozy Mystery Site

I have four new-to-the-site authors to introduce you all to. These are authors who I have been told belong on the Cozy Mystery site, by Cozy Mystery readers like you.

Cynthia Gallant-Simpson writes two series. The first is the Deadly Mystery Series, which takes place in Cape Cod. Liz Ogilvie-Smythen is a British expatriate who inherits the Cranberry Inn. Gallant-Simpson’s other series is called the Nantucket CULINARY Mystery Series, which features a caterer as its sleuth.

Stuart M. Kaminsky writes the Toby Peters Mystery Series. All of you fans of the old black and white movies from the 1940s will recognize the Hollywood stars Kaminsky features in this series – Errol Flynn, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and Judy Garland are just a few who can be found in this series. Toby is a private detective who is often used by the Hollywood studios to get their big-name stars out of trouble .

K.D. McCrite, a psychologist, is one of the authors of the Annie’s Attic Mystery Series books. McCrite is now writing the Eastgate Mystery Series, which features Carrie Jean Lockwood, an assistant pastor in Arkansas.

Patricia Rockwell is an ex-professor who currently writes two mystery series. Essie Cobb, Senior Sleuth Mystery Series is the first of those series, and it features Essie and three of her senior citizen cohorts from an assisted living facility. Rockwell’s Pamela Barnes, Acoustic Mystery Series features a psychology professor (and acoustics expert) in California.

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