The Cozy Mystery List Blog

I am so happy to have six new authors’ pages posted on the Cozy Mystery site. These are authors who have come recommended as belonging on the site:

Pip Granger: Rosie Featherby Mystery Series
The first mystery in this series was nominated for the Barry Award and the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Rosie is a girl who is being raised by her uncle and aunt in post WW II London.

Terris McMahan Grimes: Theresa Galloway Mystery Series
Grimes has her degree in English and writes this series, which features a working wife and mother sleuth and, her mother. The first mystery in the series was nominated for the Agatha Award and won the Anthony Award.

Erin Hart: Nora Gavin/Cormac Maguire Mystery Series
Nora is an American anthropologist and Cormac is an Irish archaeologist who sleuth together in Ireland. The first mystery in the series was nominated for the Anthony and Agatha Awards.

Sasscer Hill: Nikki Latrelle Racing Mystery Series
Hill writes this series which features a young horse jockey in Maryland. The first mystery in the series was nominated for both the Agatha Award and the Macavity Award for Best First Novel.

C. J. Sansom: Matthew Shardlake Mystery Series
Sansom is a lawyer with both his BA and PhD in history. He writes this historical mystery series which is set in 16th century England.

Cynthia Smith: Emma Rhodes Mystery Series
Emma is a British private investigator for the very wealthy. Her clients are so rich, they pay her $20,000  to take their cases. Emma likes to refer to herself as a “private resolver” – and guarantees a solution in two weeks time.

I have added six new authors to the Cozy Mystery site. These authors have all been recommended by some of you who think they would make good additions to the site.

Meredith Cole: Lydia McKenzie Mystery Series
Cole’s first book in the Lydia McKenzie Mystery Series was nominated for the prestigious Agatha Award. Lydia (main sleuth) is a New York photographer who replicates crime scenes so well in her photographs that it makes it look like she could somehow by involved in the crimes.

April Henry: Claire Montrose Mystery Series, Triple Threat Club Mystery Series, and Young Adult Stand Alone Mysteries
Henry’s first Claire Montrose mystery was nominated for the esteemed  Agatha Award for Best First Novel. She currently is co-authoring the Triple Threat Club Mystery Series with Lis Wiehl.

Lee Hollis: Hailey Powell Food & Cocktail Mystery Series
Lee Hollis is a pseudonym for brother (Rick Cop) and sister (Holly Simason). Rick wrote for several smash hit sitcoms (among them, Golden Girls and Wings) and Holly writes a cooking column in a newspaper. Together they write the Hailey Powell Food & Cocktail Mystery Series, which features a sleuth who is a newspaper “manager” and cooking column writer.

Barbara Neely: Blanche White Mystery Series
Neely’s first Blanche White mystery won the honored Agatha Award and Anthony Award for Best First Novel. The sleuth, Blanche, is an African American woman who works as a housekeeper.

Nicola Upson: Josephine Tey Mystery Series
As many of you know, Josephine Tey was the Scottish author of the Scotland Yard Inspector Grant Mysteries. Upson writes this mystery series, focusing on Tey as the 1930s London sleuth. (Upson “read English” at the University of Cambridge.)

Lis Wiehl: Triple Threat Club Mystery Series and East Salem Trilogy
Wiehl, a Harvard-educated lawyer (with her M.A. in Literature) writes the Triple Threat Club Mystery Series (with April Henry) and she also co-authors the East Salem Trilogy with Pete Nelson. the Triple Threat Club series features three women (a reporter, a prosecutor, and an FBI Agent) who pool all of their resources to solve crimes.