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Recommendations for NEW Cozy Mystery Readers…

A couple of days ago, Michelle submitted a comment asking for help.

“I just started reading cozy mysteries so what is new to me is probably good old reading for the rest of the mystery fans. I absolutely love the Wine Country Mysteries by Michele Scott. I currently am still reading those and I just discovered the Coffee House Mysteries by Cleo Coyle. If any of you have any rec’s I would love to hear them…”

I know that amongst us, we have many different likes and dislikes. The authors I might suggest might be quite different that authors who you all might think that Michelle would enjoy, and vice versa.

So, do any of you have a Cozy Mystery author (or even two or three!) who you think should be on the top of any new Cozy Mystery reader list?

I do! (I’ll start with just one… I don’t want to monopolize!)

Anne George: the Southern Sisters Mystery Series is full of heart and great characters, and also fun to read.

Please post a comment with your recommendation(s)…

PS>>> I have just posted a list of all of the mystery book authors who Cozy Mystery site readers have recommended. Here is the list of the Recommendations for Cozy Mystery Authors for NEW Cozy Mystery Readers.

Elizabeth J. Duncan, Fay Risner, Ian Sansom, & Catherine Shaw… Four New Additions to the Cozy Mystery Site…

I am currently trying to add mystery authors to the site who Cozy Mystery site readers have recommended. These are authors who the recommending people believe belong on the site.

The four newest mystery authors to the Cozy Mystery site are:

Elizabeth J. Duncan writes the Penny Brannigan Mystery Series which features a Welsh manicurist and her best friend/business partner. duncans frist mystery was nominated for an Agatha Award Best First Novel…

Fay Risner is the author of the Amazing Gracie Mystery Series, which features a 1900s retired Iowa farmer who lives in a senior citizens’ home…

Ian Sansom writes the Mobile Library Mystery Series which takes place in Northern Ireland and features a vegetarian librarian as its sleuth…

Catherine Shaw pens the Vanessa Duncan Cambridge Mystery Series. The sleuth in this mystery series is an 1800s Cambridge teacher…

Blue Bloods is Finally Here! (Friday Night CBS Line Up)

OK, so I was previously wrong about the title for the new police procedural, but I am correct about it now… Blue Bloods is finally here!  At the risk of repeating myself (since I already wrote an entry about this new CBS show) please click on the link above to get the specifics. (Just disregard the first few paragraphs of that entry…)

But of course, as I am rarely not more verbose than I need to be, let me just say, I have already set up our mode of taping>>> Actually, I have set this show up on three modes of taping! That’s how excited I am about trying this new police procedural. (Before I forget, Blue Bloods is on TONIGHT… on CBS, 9:00 for us, but check with your time regions…)

Boy! Was I perplexed when I last saw Donnie Wahlberg on Rizzoli and Isles – as the new boss at the precinct who grew up with Rizzoli. (And, “old boss” since he was only at the precinct a few episodes before being promoted.) I thought that perhaps Blue Bloods had been cancelled and this was his new gig. I actually Googled to make sure that this was just a temporary guest spot for him. I was relieved to see that Blue Bloods was still in the CBS plans…

Here’s hoping that Blue Bloods is as good as some of us hope that it is!

Welcome Autumn! AND What Mystery Are You Reading?

Can you believe that autumn is officially here?!? I’m really ready for it AND for the cooler weather! (Although children in San Antonio have been known to Trick or Treat in shorts… on more than just sporadic years.)

With autumn (finally) here, I know a lot of us are planning on spending lazy weekends reading a good Cozy Mystery. Anyway, I am.. So, I thought I would again ask you all if you wouldn’t mind telling us what mysteries you are currently reading.

I’m going to start by saying that while in the car and doing housework, I am listening to the first Fethering mystery by Simon Brett. I am really enjoying this mystery book, and am wondering why in the world it took me so long to discover this series. (I think that I asked the same question when I read the first of Simon Brett’s Melita Pargeter mysteries and enjoyed it so much that I added him to my list of favorite authors.)

As for my “real book” (my hard copy book), I mentioned before that I am going through one of my “trying new authors” (to me!) phases. I am just now starting to read the first in Ann Cleeve‘s George and Molly Palmer-Jones Birdwatching Mystery Series, and am enjoying it so far.

Anyway… If you wouldn’t mind telling us what mystery you’re reading, we would love to hear from you… a great way for the rest of us to take a look at authors who we might have not “noticed” before!

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