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Extra, Extra!!! Katherine Hall Page Has a Contest Going! How Would You Like to Win a FREE Copy of Her New Book?!?

OK, I know I usually post my entries in the early morning hours, but I am making an exception for this! I just received this from Katherine Hall Page, and I KNOW that a lot of you are going to want to find out about this as SOON AS POSSIBLE!

Hi

Wanted to let you know that I’m running a contest for a signed First Edition of The Body in the Gazebo (Morrow, April) on my website, http://www.katherine-hall-page.org

In addition, the first 20 entrants will receive a signed backlist hardcover.

Many thanks and Best Wishes,
Katherine

So, don’t waste time! Get going…. See if you can be one of the first 20 entrants who will receive a terrific FREE (signed) hardcover gift… not to mention a signed First Edition of The Body in the Gazebo!

Sister Carol Anne O’Marie / Sister Mary Helen Mystery Series…

I have recently been on another Cozy Mystery quest. Because I get all of these recommendations from Cozy Mystery site readers, I devote a lot of my reading time to trying out some of the authors. I just finished “going through” three new (to me!) authors. 

The bad news is that I didn’t make it to my “50 page rule” for two of the three authors. I can see how these two authors could be considered top-selling authors. I really can! I just can’t see me wanting to spend even 50 pages with their heroine/sleuths. One of the series is a highly respected culinary series, and the other series is a top-selling supposedly funny series that features a young, supposedly funny sleuth. However, the third of the three authors has captured my attention, and this is not a series I thought I would enjoy. But>>> I seem to be doing just that!

Sister Carol Anne O’Marie was brought to my attention quite a while ago. (I wish I could remember when I posted her page on the site.) I get so many recommendations that I simply can’t read all of the authors, but for some reason I decided to take a chance on this most unlikely (for me!) mystery series. I am glad I read the editorial reviews instead of just relying on the customer comments when I clicked on Novena for Murder! I am enjoying this first book in the Sister Mary Helen Mystery Series.

Any book by an unknown (to me!) author that I read past page 50 is promising. So, I will continue to read this first book in the series and see how I feel about it after I hit page 100. If an author can’t capture my Cozy Mystery attention by then, then I simply annotate my rather obvious grading system: “***** YUCK” and either move on to a new author or go back to one off of my “Favorite Authors” list…

March 2011 Mystery Book New Releases

The following mystery books will be released in March 2011:

Ellery Adams (aka Jennifer Stanley & J. B. Stanley): A Deadly Cliché (This will be the 2nd in the Books by the Bay Mystery Series…)

Catherine Aird: Past Tense (This will be the 23rd in the Inspector Sloan Mystery Series…)

Simon Beaufort: A Dead Man’s Secret (This will be the 8th in the Geoffrey Mappestone Mystery Series…)

Rhys Bowen: Bless the Bride (This will be the 10th in the Molly Murphy Mystery Series…)

C. S. Challinor: Murder on the Moor (This will be the 4th in the Rex Graves Mystery Series…)

Laura Childs: Scones and Bones (This will be the 12th in the Tea Shop Mystery Series…)

Harlan Coben: Live Wire (This will be the 10th in the Myron Bolitar Mystery Series…)

Mary Daheim: The Alpine Vengeance (This will be the 22nd in the Emma Lord Mystery Series…)

Carola Dunn: Anthem for Doomed Youth (This will be the 19th in the Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series…)

Hallie Ephron (aka 1/2 of G. H. Ephron): Come and Find Me (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Linda Fairstein: Silent Mercy (This will be the 13th in the Alex Cooper Mystery Series…)

Chris Forman: Killer Cuisine (This will be the 1st in the NEW Ian Wallace Mystery Series…)

J. G. Goodhind: Wicked Words (This will be the 6th in the Honey Driver Mystery Series…)

Beth Groundwater: Deadly Currents (This will be the 1st in the NEW Rocky Mountain Outdoor Adventures Mystery Series…)

Charlaine Harris: Vampires: the Recent Undead (This will be an Anthology, Edited by Paula Guran…)

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles: Body Line (This will be the 13th in the Bill Slider Mystery Series…)

Carolyn Hart: Dead by Midnight (This will be the 21st in the Death on Demand Mystery Series…)

Veronica Heley: False Money (This will be the 5th in the Abbott Agency Mystery Series…)

Linda O. Johnston: Beaglemania (This will be the 1st in the NEW Pet Rescue Mystery Series…)

Joyce & Jim Lavene: A Touch of Gold (This will be the 2nd in the Missing Pieces Mystery Series…)

Lucy Lawrence (aka Jenn McKinlay): Sealed with a Kill (This will be the 3rd in the Decoupage Mystery Series…)

Nancy Martin: Sticky Fingers (This will be the 2nd in the Roxy Abruzzo Mystery Series…)

Judi McCoy: Begging for Trouble (This will be the 4th in the Dog Walker Mystery Series…)

Diana Orgain: Formula for Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Maternal Instincts Mystery Series…)

James Patterson & Neil McMahon: Toys (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Sara Rosett: Mimosas, Mischief, and Murder (This will be the 6th in the Ellie Avery Mystery Series…)

Paige Shelton: Fruit of All Evil (This will be the 2nd in the Farmers’ Market Mystery Series…)

Alexander McCall Smith: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (This will be the 12th in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Mystery Series…)

Patricia Sprinkle: Friday’s Daughter (This will be a Stand Alone. This is not a mystery…)

Denise Swanson: Murder of a Bookstore Babe (This will be the 13th in the Scumble River Mystery Series…)

Penny Warner: How to Survive a Killer Séance (This will be the 3rd in the Party Planning Mystery Series…)

Laura Wilson: An Empty Death (This will be the 2nd in the Ted Stratton Mystery Series…)

Jacqueline Winspear: A Lesson in Secrets (This will be the 8th in the Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series…)

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