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Mystery Books that Take Place in Montana

Here are some fun Montana facts:
The capital is Helena.
The largest city is Billings.
State motto is “Gold and Silver”
State nickname is the Big Sky Country.
State flower is the Bitterroot.
State bird is the Western Meadowlark.
State animal is the Grizzly Bear.
Montana has the greatest number of different mammal species in the USA.

Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site who feature Montana locations in their books:

Leslie Budewitz: Food Lovers’ Village Mystery Series

Rae Davies: Dusty Deals Mystery Series

Sharon Dunn: Bargain Hunters Mystery Series AND Ruby Taylor Mystery Series

Sandra West Prowell: Phoebe Siegel Mystery Series

Please feel free to comment if you see an author from the Cozy Mystery Site who belongs on this list, or if you have any corrections.

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Mystery Books that Take Place in Missouri

Here are some fun Missouri facts:
The capital is Jefferson City.
The largest city is Kansas City.
State motto is “The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law”
State nickname is the Show Me State .
State flower is the White Hawthorn.
State bird is the Bluebird.
State animal is the Missori Mule.
Missouri (as well as Tennessee) is bordered by eight states.

Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site who feature Missouri locations in their books:

Hannah Alexander: Hideaway Mystery Series

Jean Hager: Iris House Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series

Janis Harrison: Bretta Solomon Gardening Mystery Series

Shirley Kennett: P J Gray Mystery Series

Suzann Ledbetter: Hannah Garvey Mystery Series

Rett MacPherson: Torie O’Shea Mystery Series

Christine Matthews & Robert J. Randisi: Gil & Claire Hunt Mystery Series

Linda Rodriguez: Skeet Bannion Mystery Series

Paige Shelton: Country Cooking School Mystery Series

Joanna Campbell Slan: Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mystery Series

Lou Jane Temple: Heaven Lee Mystery Series

Elaine Viets: Mystery Shopper Mystery Series, Death Investigator Mystery Series, AND Francesca Vierling Mystery Series

Vineyard Quilt Mystery Series: Several authors write this series.

Please feel free to comment if you see an author from the Cozy Mystery Site who belongs on this list, or if you have any corrections.

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March 2013 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in March 2013:

Victoria Abbott (aka Mary Jane Maffini & daughter Victoria Maffini): The Christie Curse (This will be the 1st in the NEW Book Collector’s Mystery Series.)

Ellery Adams (aka J. B. Stanley, Jennifer Stanley, & 1/2 of Lucy Arlington): Peach Pies and Alibis (This will be the 2nd in the Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery Series.)

Jo Bannister: Deadly Virtues (This will be a Stand Alone.)

M. C. Beaton (: Death of Yesterday (This will be the 29th in the Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series.)

Claudia Bishop (aka Mary Stanton): A Fete Worse than Death (This will be the 18th in the Hemlock Falls Mystery Series.)

Rhys Bowen: The Family Way (This will be the 12th in the Molly Murphy Mystery Series.)

Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey): Assaulted Pretzel (This will be the 2nd in the Amish Mystery Series.)

Laura Childs: Sweet Tea Revenge (This will be the 14th in the Tea Shop Mystery Series.)

Harlan Coben: Six Years (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Clive Cussler & Justin Scott: The Striker (This will be the 6th in the Isaac Bell Series.)

Lila Dare (currently aka Joanna Campbell Slan, no longer aka Laura DiSilverio & Ella Barrick): Wave Good-Bye (This will be the 4th in the Southern Beauty Shop Mystery Series.)

Victoria Hamilton: Bowled Over (This will be the 2nd in the Vintage Kitchen Mystery Series.) (This is a Fourth of July theme mystery book.)

Erin Hart: The Book of Killowen (This will be the 4th in the Nora Gavin / Cormac Maguire Mystery Series.)

Veronica Heley: False Alarm (This will be the 7th in the Abbott Agency Mystery Series.)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: The Silent Ghost (This will be a novella in the Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Series.)

William Kent Krueger: Ordinary Grace (This will be a Stand Alone.)

G. A. McKevett: Killer Honeymoon (This will be the 18th in the Savannah Reid Mystery Series.)

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

Thomas Perry: The Boyfriend (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Denise Swanson: Nickeled-and-Dimed to Death (This will be the 2nd in the Devereaux Dime Store Mystery Series.) (This is an Easter theme mystery book.)

Kari Lee Townsend: Trouble in the Tarot (This will be the 3rd in the Fortune Teller Mystery Series.)

Jacqueline Winspear: Leaving Everything Most Loved (This will be the 10th in the Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series.)

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