Here are four mystery author additions to the Cozy Mystery site. It has taken me a while to finally get myself in gear, and hopefully I can get some more authors posted soon. (These are authors who you all have recommended for me to include on the site.)
Ali Brandon (aka Diane A.S. Stuckart) writes the Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series. Brandon has a degree in Journalism and is also the author (as Stuckart) of the Leonardo da Vinci (Historical) Mystery Series. The Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series takes place in Brooklyn, and features not only the Texan transplant sleuth, but also her cat, Hamlet.
Waverly Curtis (aka Waverly Fitzgerald and Curtis Colbert) writes the Barking Detective Mystery Series, which takes place in Seattle. Geri Sullivan is an investigator who owns Pepe, “Chihuahua extraordinaire”. (Waverly Fitzgerald is the author of four Victorian historical romances and a teacher of adult writing classes. Colbert is the author of the Jake Rossiter & Miss Jenkins Mystery Series.)
Molly MacRae pens the Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery Series. The series is set in Tennessee, and features the new owner of a wool shop. Kath Rutledge has inherited her grandmother’s shop along with an unhappy ghost.
Andrea Penrose received both her masters and bachelors degrees in the arts from Yale. She writes the Lady Arianna Regency Mystery Series which is set in London during the early 1800s.
I have received a few comments and letters asking for help in coming up with mystery books that don’t focus on murders. I know, I know, the first thing I also think of when thinking of a mystery novel is… death, and that’s death – as in not natural! But when you think of it, there are all sorts of things that could be the basis of a mystery book: stealing, forging, cheating, cooking… well not really cooking as in the culinary theme sense – but definitely poisoning – but that usually ends in murder, which this theme is NOT about!