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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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Mystery Books that Take Place on Cruise Ships – Mystery Books at Sea

Who doesn’t like a restful, yet fun, traveling experience at sea?

Thank you to both Judith and BB for providing us with this great list of Mystery Books that Take Place on Cruise Ships.

This Cozy Mystery Cruise Ship Theme includes mystery books that take place at sea:

Cathy Ace
Cait Morgan Mystery Series
The Corpse with the Diamond Hand

Ellie Alexander (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley)
Bakeshop Mystery Series
A Crime of Passion Fruit

Arleen Alleman
Darcy Farthing Mystery Series
Currents Deep and Deadly
Currents of Vengeance

Conrad Allen (aka Edward Marston & Keith Miles)
Dillman Mystery Series
Murder on the Lusitania
Murder on the Mauretania
Murder on the Minnesota
Murder on the Caronia
Murder on the Marmora
Murder on the Salsette
Murder on the Oceanic
Murder on the Celtic

Steve Allen
Steve Allen Mystery Series
Murder on the Atlantic

Marian Babson
Death Sails at Midnight
Cruise of a Death Time

Donald Bain & “Jessica Fletcher”
Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series
Murder on the QE2
Panning for Murder
The Queen’s Jewels

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

K. K. Beck
Iris Cooper & Jack Clancy Mystery Series
Death in a Deck Chair

Mike Befeler
Paul Jacobson Geezer-Lit Mystery Series
Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder

Susan Bernhardt
Kay Driscoll Mystery Series
Paradise Can Be Murder

J.S. Borthwick
Deane & McKenzie Mystery Series
Bodies of Water
My Body Lies over the Ocean

Candy Calvert
Darcy Cavanaugh Cruise Mystery Series
Dressed to Keel
Aye Do or Die
Mai Tai to Murder

Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot Mystery Series
Death on the Nile

Carol Higgins Clark
Regan Reilly Mystery Series
Decked

Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark
Santa Cruise

Susan Rogers Cooper
Milt Kovak Mystery Series
Dark Waters

Susan Rogers Cooper
E. J. Pugh Mystery Series
Don’t Drink the Water

Maya Corrigan
Five-Ingredient Mystery Series
S’more Murders

Kathy Cranston
Bee’s Bakehouse Mystery Series
Cruises are Murder

Mary Daheim
Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series
Dead Man Docking

William Doonan
Henry Grave Msytery Series
Grave Passage
Mediterranean Grave
Grave Indulgence

Carola Dunn
Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series
To Davy Jones Below

Aaron Elkins
Alix London Mystery Series
A Cruise to Die For

“Jessica Fletcher” & Donald Bain
Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series
Murder on the QE2
Panning for Murder
The Queen’s Jewels

Shelley Freydont
Lindy Haggerty Mystery Series
High Seas Murder

Jeanne Glidewell
Ripple Effect Mystery Series
Rip Your Heart Out

Kerry Greenwood
Phrynne Fisher Mystery Series
Death by Water

Carolyn Hart
Death on Demand Mystery Series
Murder Walks the Plank

Carolyn Hart
Henrie O Mystery Series
Set Sail for Murder

Sue Henry
Alaska Mystery Series
Death Takes a Passage

Cheryl Hollon
Webb’s Glass Shop Mystery Series
Shattered at Sea

Maria Hudgins
Dotsy Lamb Travel Mystery Series
Death on the Aegean Queen

Maddy Hunter
Passport to Peril Mystery Series
Hula Done It?

J. A. Jance
J. P. Beaumont Mystery Series
Birds of Prey

R.T. Jordan
Polly Pepper Mystery Series
Set Sail for Murder

Sharon Kahn
Ruby, the Rabbi’s Wife Mystery Series
Don’t Cry for Me, Hot Pastrami

Joshua Kinser
Art Heist on the High Seas
The Cruise Ship Capers and the Missing Klimt

Mary Kruger
Gilded Age Mystery Series
No Honeymoon for Death

Rita Lakin
Gladdy Gold Mystery Series
Getting Old is the Best Revenge

Laura Levine
Jaine Austen Mystery Series
Killer Cruise

Liz Lipperman
Clueless Cook Mystery Series
Murder for the Halibut

Peter Lovesey
The False Inspector Dew

Alyssa Maxwell
Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery Series
A Murderous Marriage

G.A. McKevett
Savannah Reid Mystery Series
Every Body on Deck

Marie Moore
Sydney March Mystery Series
Shore Excursion

Joanne Pence
Angie Amalfi Mystery Series
Cooks Overboard

Elliott Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery Series
First Class Murder

June Shaw
Cealie Gunther Mystery Series
Deadly Reunion

Elizabeth Daniels Squire
Peaches Dann Mystery Series
Where’s There’s a Will

Susan Sussman & Sarajane Avidon
Morgan Taylor Mystery Series
Cruising for Murder

Denise Swanson
Scumble River Mystery Series
Murder of a Needled Knitter

Marcia Talley
Hannah Ives Mystery Series
Dark Passage

Stella Whitelaw
Casey Jones Mystery Series
Second Sitting
Dead Slow Ahead
A Wide Berth

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Mystery Books that Take Place in Kansas

21191966[1]Here are some fun Kansas facts:

The state capital is Topeka.
The largest city is Wichita.
State motto is “Ad astra per aspera” (To the stars through difficulties.)
State nickname is Sunflower State.
State flower is the Sunflower .
State bird is the Western Meadowlark .
State animal is the buffalo.
Kansas got its name for the Konza (aka Kaw or Kansa) Native Americans who lived there.

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

Sally Goldenbaum: Queen Bees Quilt Mystery Series (wrote first 3 in series)

Marnette Falley: Queen Bees Quilt Mystery Series (continued series at book 4)

Nancy Mehl: Ivy Towers Mystery Series (Mehl is on the Heartsong Presents Mysteries page)

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

Charlene Weir: Police Chief Susan Wren Mystery Series

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

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Top Chef Television Show – Personal Guilty Pleasure

chefSo, I’ve got something of a confession to make…  For a few years now Top Chef has been a TV show I watch with my family.

I admit that I’m not all that proud of watching this show. It certainly isn’t something I expected to like at first – I’d go so far as to call it something of a guilty pleasure.

We first started watching Top Chef a little bit after my daughter went away to college for the first time.  Her roommate watched the series, and they watched a season together before my daughter recommended it to the rest of us.  We were a bit skeptical at first (so-called “reality television” has something of a negative connotation in our household) but the rest of the family agreed to watch through a full season before making a decision.

Somewhat to my surprise, I ended up enjoying it.  As I have mentioned many times before, I’m not really into cooking, but watching obviously passionate people talk about the subject that they know so much about is a really interesting experience, even if you don’t know that “julienning” is just a fancy terms for cutting something into strips.  We’ve started watching a number of other cooking shows as well since then, but Top Chef still remains our favorite to watch, and then pick apart. (Let’s face it, isn’t picking them apart one of the things people like about reality television shows?)

Honestly, I didn’t really think that I’d be into shows like Top Chef, but now they’re a big part of what we watch.  It’s especially nice that I can watch them with the entire family, or at least we can all discuss them afterwards.  We all have slightly different interests in terms of television, but cooking competition shows have turned out to be one thing that we can all enjoy to varying degrees.

If you haven’t tried this particular show yet, I would recommend that you watch a season in its correct chronological order. It may just surprise you. You might actually look forward to watching it, or at least to “discussing it” with your friends and/or family.

PS >>> We watch the shows as they air on the Bravo channel, so we hear a lot of bleeps. I don’t know if they bleep out all the objectionable words when you watch the shows on DVDs.

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