The Cozy Chicks Kitchen
Well, seven Cozy Mystery authors have gotten together and decided to do something about those types of “problems”. The book is called The Cozy Chicks Kitchen, and the seven authors are:
Ellery Adams/J. B. Stanley (Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery Series & Supper Club Mystery Series),
Deb Baker/Hannah Reed (Yooper Mystery Series & Beekeeping Mystery Series),
Lorraine Bartlett (Victoria Square Mystery Series),
Kate Collins (Flower Shop Mystery Series),
Maggie Sefton (Knitting Mystery Series),
Leann Sweeney (Cats in Trouble Mystery Series), and
Heather Webber (Lucy Valentine Mystery Series).
In the book’s description, it says they cover all types of food categories: appetizers, entrées, vegetable sides, soups and salads, desserts, and even drinks.
Several people have written to tell me about the book, so that I could tell you all. It sounds like a really cute premise for a cookbook, and I’m hoping that authors who typically include several recipes at the end of their Cozy Mystery books (like Diane Mott Davidson) take up this great idea and put out cookbooks of their own. (Actually, with my cooking skills, I doubt I could replicate any of Goldy Bear’s recipes!)
Masterpiece Mystery Endeavor – PBS July 1, 2012 (Tonight)
I meant to write about this show when I found out about it, weeks ago. You know what they say about putting off until tomorrow…
Short notice, but tonight, on your local PBS stations, Masterpiece Mystery will be airing Endeavor. For those of you who are Inspector Morse fans, you will know that his first name, although highly guarded, was actually revealed as >>> you guessed it! >>> Endeavor. Morse’s mother had been a Quaker, and assigned this very big name to her little baby, something he never quite grew into. Thus, everyone called him Morse. (That was years ago, before it became commonplace for people to name their babies with such unusual names.)
This 1 1/2 hour Masterpiece Mystery episode stars Shaun Adams as Morse, the young version of the Morse many of us “knew” as John Thaw’s portrayal. Inspector Morse was an opera-loving, Oxford-educated man, who enjoyed working the most difficult crossword puzzles while listening to the most beautiful classical music, sipping the finest liquor. (Oh, and he never met a beautiful woman he didn’t want to know better! Even though she might be a suspect in his current murder investigation…)
Yes, I guess I do sound like what I am: a Colin Dexter fan! Although he doesn’t write Cozy Mystery books, his Inspector Morse books are some of the very finest police procedural mystery books I have ever read. And, of course, I am like many in that I have seen every one of the Inspector Morse television mystery shows, at least once.
So, go set up your mode of taping OR make sure you are sitting in front of your television tonight, with it set on your local PBS station’s channel, and get ready to be introduced to a young Endeavor Morse, before he owned his beloved red Jaguar.
PS >>> Watch for John Thaw’s daughter – Abigail – playing the part of a very busy newspaper editor. The editor is being questioned by Endeavor, while she is trying to get work done at her desk. She asks his name, hears it, and finally looks up to see him and ask him if they have ever met. He says no, to which she replies “Another life then.”
Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations – June 2012
These monthly recommendations of authors are great ways for us to take a look at your authors, and read the reasons you like them. Then, for those of us who are looking for the same things you listed, we can try the authors. So, please nominate one, two, or even three of your favorite Cozy Mystery authors who you read during the month of June 2012, and please tell us why you enjoyed the authors’ mystery books. (And, please don’t tell us about the authors you tried reading and didn’t like.)
What Cozy Mystery book (or author) have you read during June 2012, 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:
Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series
Donald Bain & “Jessica Fletcher”: Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series
K. K. Beck: Iris Cooper Mystery Series
Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series
Frances Brody: Kate Shackelton Mystery Series
Heron Carvic: Miss Setton Mystery Series
Erika Chase: Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery Series
Laura Crum: Gail McCarthy Mystery Series
Krista Davis: Domestic Diva Mystery Series
Anna Dean: Dido Kent Mystery Series
Charlotte & Aaron Elkins: Alix London Mystery Series
Janet Evanovich: Stephanie Plum Mystery Series
Judy Fitzwater: Jennifer Marsh Mystery Series
“Jessica Fletcher” & Donald Bain: Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series
Anne George: Southern Sisters Mystery Series
Isidore Haiblum: Murder in Gotham
Victoria Hamilton: Vintage Kitchen Mystery Series
Janice Hamrick: Jocelyn Shore Mystery Series
B. B. Haywood: Candy Holliday Mystery Series
Hazel Holt: Mrs. Malory Mystery Series
P. D. James: Adam Dalgliesh Msytery Series
Rita Lakin: Gladdy Gold Mystery Series
Edward Marston (aka Conrad Allen & Keith Miles): Railway Detective Mystery Series
Nancy Martin: Blackbird Sisters Mystery Series
Leslie Meier: Lucy Stone Mystery Series
Julie Moffett: No One to Trust
Katherine Hall Page: Faith Fairchild Mystery Series
Patricia Rockwell: Bingoed, an Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mystery Series
Sax Rohmer: Hangover House
Mark Schweizer: Liturgical Msytery Series
Cynthia Smith: Emma Rhodes Mystery Series
Lillian Stewart: The Blue Hackle
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