Please tell the rest of us about a few of your very favorite Cozy Mystery reads of February 2013. These authors should be authors who have written mystery books that you absolutely have GOT to tell the rest of us about. The books/series should be those mysteries that you absolutely loved reading this month. Please include WHY you enjoyed these authors.
I will add the recommended authors to this entry as they come in. (Please do not tell us about the authors you did not like.) Thank you!
What Cozy Mystery book (or author) have you read during February 2013, and why did you enjoy it (or him/her)?
Here are the current authors who some of you have read this past month, and wanted to tell the rest of us about:
Lucy Arlington (Jennifer Stanley & Sylvia May): Novel Idea Mystery Series
Maggie Barbieri: Murder 101 Mystery Series
Kerry Barger: The Story of Lataine’s Ring
Christy Barritt: Squeaky Clean Mystery Series
Josie Belle (aka Jenn McKinlay & Lucy Lawrence): Good Buy Girls Mystery Series
Sheila Webster Boneham: Drop Dead on Recall
Rhys Bowen: Molly Murphy Mystery Series
Susan M. Boyer: Lowcountry Boil
Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey): Amish Mystery Series
Lilian Jackson Braun: The Cat Who ***** Mystery Series
Simon Brett: Fethering Mystery Series
Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series
Duffy Brown: Consignment Shop Mystery Series
Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib): Key West Food Critic Mystery Series
Erika Chase: Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery Series
G. K. Chesterton: Father Brown Mystery Series
Laura Childs: Scrapbooking Mystery Series
Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Gourmet De-Lite Mystery Series
Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): County Cork Mystery Series
Elizabeth Craig (aka Elizabeth Spann Craig & Riley Adams): Southern Quilting Mystery Series
Philip R. Craig: Martha’s Vineyard Mystery Series
Deborah Crombie: Kincaid & James Mystery Series
Waverly Curtis: Barking Detective Mystery Series
Mary Daheim: Emma Lord Alpine Mystery Series
Lila Dare (Ella Barrick & Laura DiSilverio, & Joanna Campbell Slan): Southern Beauty Shop Mystery Series
Carola Dunn: Cornish Mystery Series
Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swensen Mystery Series
L. A. Frazier: Back on the Market
Erle Stanley Gardner: Perry Mason Mystery Series
Anne George: Southern Sisters Mystery Series
Sue Grafton: Kinsey Millhone Mystery Series
Stephen F. Havill: Posadas County Mystery Series
B. B. Haywood: Candy Holliday Mystery Series
Lee Hollis: Hailey Powell Food & Cocktail Mystery Series
Hazel Holt: Mrs. Malory Mystery Series
Sofie Kelly: Magical Cats Mystery Series
William X. Kienzle: Father Koesler Mystery Series
Mary Lou Kirwin: Librarian Mystery Series
Rita Lakin: Gladdy Gold Mystery Series
Victoria Laurie: Psychic Eye Mystery Series
Liz Lipperman: Clueless Cook Mystery Series
Anna Loan-Wilsey: Hattie Davish “Have Typewriter Will Travel” Mystery Series
Karen MacInerney: Mother’s Day Out
Charlotte MacLeod (aka Alisa Craig): Peter Shandy Mystery Series
Ada Madison (aka Camille Minichino & Margaret Grace): Sophie Knowles Mystery Series
Mary Jane Maffini: Charlotte Adams Mystery Series
J. J. Murphy: Algonquin Round Table Mystery Series
Stuart Palmer: Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series
Louise Penny: Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series
James Runcie: Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
Mark Schweizer: Liturgical Mystery Series
Connie Shelton: Samantha Sweet Mystery Series
Evelyn Smith: Miss Melville Regrets
Josephine Tey: Alan Grant Mystery Series
Suzi Weinert: Garage Sale Stalker
Lois Winston: Revenge of the Crafty Corpse
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OK, since we had such good luck yesterday in identifying the sleuth for Betts, let’s see if we can come up with this sleuth for Kathy.
I am going to try to go through a few questions and/or requests for help that I have received from some Cozy Mystery readers. I have several queries to ask your help with. The first one comes from Betts. Betts writes: