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September 2012 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in September 2012:

Susan Wittig Albert (aka 1/2 of Robin Paige): The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose (This will be the 3rd in the Darling Dahlias Mystery Series.)

Sandra Balzo: Dead Ends (This will be the 2nd in the Main Street Mystery Series.)

M. C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Hiss and Hers (This will be the 23rd in the Agatha Raisin Mystery Series.)

Jennie Bentley (aka Jenna Bennett  & Bente Gallagher): Wall-to-Wall Dead (This will be the 6th in the Do-It-Yourself Mystery Series.)

Stephen Booth: Dead and Buried (This will be the 13th in the Cooper & Fry Mystery Series.)

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Takes a Second Look (This is an omnibus with  books 4,  5, & 6 of the Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series.)

Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Islieb): Death in Four Courses (This will be the 2nd in the Key West Food Critic Mystery Series.)

Nancy Bush: Nowhere To Hide (This will be a Stand Alone.) (Actually, August 29)

Grace Carroll (aka Carol Culver): Died with a Bow (This will be the 2nd in the Accessories Mystery Series.)

Harlan Coben: Seconds Away (This will be the 2nd in the Young Adult Mickey Bolitar Mystery Series.)

Margaret Coel: Buffalo Bill’s Dead Now (This will be the 16th in the Wind River Reservation Mystery Series.)

Lesley Cookman: Murder at the Manor (This will be the 9th in the Libby Sarjeant Mystery Series.)

Clive Cussler & Thomas Perry: The Tombs (This will be the 4th in the Fargo Adventure Series.)

Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul: Mirage (This will be the 9th in the Oregon Files Series.)

Casey Daniels (aka Miranda Bliss & Kylie Logan): Supernatural Born Killers (This will be the 9th in the Pepper Martin Mystery Series.)

Joanne Dobson & Beverle Graves Myers: Face of the Enemy  (This will be the 1st in the NEW Helluva War Mystery Series.)

Sharon Fiffer: Lucky Stuff (This will be the 8th in the Jane Wheel Mystery Series.) (This is a St. Patrick’s Day theme mystery.)

Shelley Freydont: Foul Play at the Fair (This will be the 1st in the NEW Celebration Bay Mystery Series…) (This is a Halloween theme mystery.)

Rebecca M. Hale: How to Tail a Cat (This will be the 4th in the Cats and Curios Mystery Series.)

Veronica Heley: Murder in Mind (This will be the 13th in the Ellie Quicke Mystery Series.)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Hide & Snoop (This will be the 7th in the Odelia Grey Mystery Series.)

Tracy Kiely: Murder Most Austen (This will be the 4th in the Elizabeth Parker Mystery Series.)

Josi S. Kilpack: Tres Leches Cupcakes (This will be the 8th in the Culinary Mystery Series.)

Laurie R. King: Garment of Shadows (This will be the 12th in the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes Mystery Series.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene: Treacherous Toys (This will be the 5th in the Renaissance Faire Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Meg London (aka Peg Cochran): Murder Unmentionable (This will be the 1st in the NEW Sweet Nothings Mystery Series.)

Beverle Graves Myers & Joanne Dobson: Face of the Enemy  (This will be the 1st in the NEW Helluva War Mystery Series.)

James Patterson & Maxine Paetro: Confessions of a Murder Suspect (This will be a Stand Alone.)

James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge: Zoo  (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams): A Fistful of Collars (This will be the 5th in the Chet and Bernie Mystery Series.)

J. D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts): Delusion in Death (This will be the 36th in the Eve Dallas Mystery Series.)

Sara Rosett: Mistletoe, Merriment and Murder (This will be the 7th in the Ellie Avery Mystery Series.) (Actually, Oct. 1) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Hank Phillippi Ryan: The Other Woman (This will be the 1st in the Jane Ryland & Jake Brogan Mystery Series.)

Denise Swanson: Murder of the Cat’s Meow (This will be the 15th  in the Scumble River Mystery Series.)

Peggy Webb: Elvis and the Blue Christmas Corpse (This will be the 5th in the Southern Cousins Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

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

Mystery Books that Take Place in Indiana…

Here are some fun Indiana facts:

The capital is Indianapolis.
The largest city is Indianapolis.
State motto is “The Crossroads of America”.
State nickname is “Hoosier State”.
State flower is the Peony.
State bird is the Cardinal.

Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site who feature Indiana locations/settings in their books:

Madelyn Alt: Bewitching Mystery Series

Annie’s Amish Inn Mystery Series

Julia Buckley: Writer’s Apprentice Mystery Series

V.M. Burns: RJ Franklin Mystery Series

Vannetta Chapman: Amish Village Mystery Series AND Shipshewana Mystery Series

Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series 

Jeanne M. Dams: Hilda Johansson Mystery Series

Sara Hoskinson Frommer: Joan Spencer Mystery Series

Karen Anne Golden: The Cats That… Mystery Series

Peg Marberg: Interior Design Mystery Series

Ralph M. McInerny (aka Monica Quill): Notre Dame Mystery Series AND Andrew Broom Mystery Series

Jana Lynn Shellman: Poppy Hannah 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 Alaska…

Here are some fun Alaska facts:

The capital is Juneau.
The largest city is Anchorage.
State motto is “North To The Future”.
State nickname is “The Last Frontier”.
State flower is the Forget-me-not.
State bird is the Willow Ptarmigan.

Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site who feature Alaska locations/settings in their books:

Vicki Delany: Klondike Mystery Series

Susan Froetschel: Alaska Grey

Sue Henry: Alaska Mystery Series

Christopher Lane: Inupiat Mystery Series

Dani Pettrey: Alaskan Courage Mystery Series

Dana Stabenow: Kate Shugak Mystery Series AND Liam Campbell Mystery Series

Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell): No Night is Too Long

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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August Is Here, and It’s Bittersweet for Me!

Wow! It’s August already!

At the beginning of the summer I wrote about our daughter coming home for the summer to study for the Bar. She took the three-day exam at the end of July, and then immediately started the process of moving. It’s been a big summer for her!

We have spent the last week moving her to her first “official” job, – although as some of you know through this blog, she interned every summer during both her college and law school years. Our house has looked like a storage place since she came home to study. We had all of her bins from school out in our living room, with new bins upstairs that she used to pack her “childhood” things into. We had her rowing machine in our family room, and our dining room table housed her breakable things, in short, we have been in a sort of transition stage.

I woke up two days ago with this epiphany: This is it! She is moving on with her life, and from now on, she will simply be “visiting” us… a wonderful accomplishment for her, but not so great for me as her mother! Her bedroom here now houses only has personal mementos: high school newspapers from her years as a reporter and editor, U.I.L. awards, fiction she wrote, history and science papers and projects, all things that probably mean more to me than they do to her. (She’s still young, with the passing of time she may just find that those things do indeed matter to her!)

Her life is going just as she planned. She will be working in a job she truly wants, she’ll be able to see her college roommate who will still be in Austin for another half year, and she will be living close enough to our home that she can visit when she wants, but far away so that we can’t just drop in when we want. (She hasn’t said the last part of that sentence, but I’m not so old that I can’t remember what it was like to be her age!)

So, with her moving out – and on with her life – it will be a time for the rest of us to adjust to our new family structure. My husband and I will slowly convert into the role my parents held all the years since I graduated from college and moved on with my life. It’s a cycle that is inevitable, one which I would much prefer reversing, but unfortunately, in all things related to time, cannot.

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