Can you believe it is already June?!?
I can’t!
I just wanted to wish you all a happy and healthy June!
Arlington: Call to Honor – A Time to Remember…
A few years ago, my daughter and I went on a tour of Arlington National Cemetery. It was truly an inspirational tour. Years later, I still (literally) get goose bumps thinking of the many, many cemetery headstones, all belonging to men and women who have served in our country’s armed forces. It is truly a humbling experience.
About a month ago, I was able to watch a documentary called Arlington: Call to Honor (on the Smithsonian channel) about Arlington National Cemetery. It is a really good one-hour show. (The show will be played tonight at 9:00 and midnight – Eastern.) It features the young men who take care of Arlington’s burial ceremonies, and shows just how special these special armed forces men are… from taking care of the horses, to shining the bridles, to having to mask their feelings of sorrow as they inter yet another person at the cemetery.
I know we should always strive to remember all of those who have given so much of themselves to keep us all safe. But, I also know that life is hectic and hurried. And because of this, I am glad that we have Memorial Day each year – so that we can think about those who have given so much for all of us!
Authors Similar to Carola Dunn
Diana sent me a letter asking for help finding authors similar to sleuth Daisy Dalrymple’s creator, Carola Dunn:
“I’m hoping you’ll be willing to give me a suggestion or two – I especially love … Carola Dunn (Daisy Dalrymple). … do you have any specific author suggestions?”
I am going to start the list off with Jacqueline Winspear (who Diana suggested in her letter) and some other authors who I think Diana might be able to substitute Carola Dunn with, now that she is all caught up with Dunn’s Daisy Dalrymple mysteries.
Authors Who Are Similar to Carola Dunn:
Susan Wittig Albert: Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mystery Series
Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series
M. C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Hamish Mcbeth Mystery Series
Rhys Bowen: Molly Murphy Mystery Series AND Lady Georgiana Mystery Series
Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series
Marion Chesney (aka M. C. Beaton): Edwardian Murder Mystery Series
Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin Mystery Series
Dianne Day: Freemont Jones Mystery Series
Ann Granger: Markby & Mitchell Village Whodunit Mystery Series
Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher Mystery Series and Corinna Chapman Mystery Sereis
Kate Kingsbury (aka Rebecca Kent): Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Series
Catriona McPherson: Dandy Gilver Mystery Series
Robin Paige (aka Susan Wittig Albert & Bill Albert): Kate Ardleigh Sheridan & Sir Charles Sheridan Victorian Mystery Series
Victoria Thompson: Gaslight Mystery Series
Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series
Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to Carola Dunn, and I will add them to the list.
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Sharon Pape, Debbie Steever, Sara Woods, & Suzanne Young … Four New Additions to the Cozy Mystery Site…
I have finally added some new mystery authors to the Cozy Mystery site! I have so many authors who you all have recommended as belonging on the site, and I know that I should get them posted faster. But, of course, there are no excuses for taking this much time…
So, here are the four newest mystery author additions to the Cozy Mystery site:
Sharon Pape used to be a teacher. She is now writing the Portrait of a Crime Mystery Seires which will fall under the paranormal subgenre. Her main sleuth (Aurora – Rory McBain) is a police sketch artist who has inherited her uncle’s Victorian mansion AND an 1870s federal marshal who inhabits the old house.
Debbie Steever writes Stand Alone mysteries. One of them involves two brothers and a journal full of family secrets that their father left them after his death. Another of Steever’s Stand Alone mysteries is about a highschool reunion that goes terribly wrong… for both the corpse and the suspect…
The next author has several aliases:
Sara Woods: Antony Maitland Mystery Series
Mary Challis: Jeremy Locke Mystery Series
Margaret Leek: Stephen Marryat Mystery Series
All three of the above series have British barristers as their sleuths.
Anne Burton: Richard Trenton Mystery Series
The above series has a British banker as its sleuth.
Suzanne Young has her degree in English, which she parlayed into a very varied career, which included working as the project director on a National Science Foundation grant at MIT. Young writes the Edna Davies Mystery Series. Edna is an amateur herbalist who lives in Rhode Island (on the coast) and solves mysteries.
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