I know that the Cozy Mystery site has readers from all over the world, so I am sometimes skeptical about posting an entry that only relates to the USA. However, please bear with me…
For those of you site readers in the USA…
Happy 4th of July!
Authors Similar to Anne George …
Anne George is the author of the wildly enjoyable Southern Sisters Mystery Series. This wonderful Cozy Mystery series features two sisters (“Mouse” and “Sister”) in Alabama who could NOT possibly be more different. Anne George is able to highlight the sisters’ differences while showing just how close two sisters ought to be!
If you have run out of Anne George’s Southern Sisters Mystery Series and want to try to find another author who might fill the void, here is a list of authors who just might be able to do that!
Authors similar to Anne George:
Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series…
Jill Churchill: Jane Jeffrey Mystery Series…
Barbara Colley: Charlotte LaRue Mystery Series
Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Coffeehouse Mystery Series…
Amanda Cross: Kate Fansler Mystery Series…
Elizabeth Duncan: Penny Brannigan Mystery Series…
Earlene Fowler: Benni Harper Mystery Series…
Carolyn Hart: Death on Demand Mystery Series AND Henrie O Mystery Series…
Joan Hess: Claire Malloy Mystery Series…
Madison Johns: Agnes Barton Senior Sleuth Mystery Series…
Laura Levine: Jaine Austen Mystery Series…
Charlotte MacLeod (aka Alisa Craig): Peter Shandy & Helen Shandy Mystery Series AND Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mystery Series…
Nancy Martin: Blackbird Sisters Mystery Series…
Emilie Richards: Ministry is Murder Mystery Series
Ann B. Ross: Miss Julia Series…
Deborah Sharp: Mace Bauer Mystery Series…
Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series...
Patricia Sprinkle: Thoroughly Southern Mystery Series…
Kathy Hogan Trochek (aka Mary Kay Andrews): Callahan Garrity Mystery Series
Livia J. Washburn: Fresh Baked Mystery Series
Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to Anne George, and I will add them to the list.
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Mysteries of Sparrow Island Series … Complete List …
I just posted the Mysteries of Sparrow Island Mystery Series on the Cozy Mystery site. I know that it took me way longer than it should have, but I finally finished it. I had quite a few requests for the complete list of the books in the series, and am sorry that it took me so long to get it done.
Better Late than Never!
The Mysteries of Sparrow Island follow Abigail Stanton (an ornithologist) who moves to Sparrow Island off of the state of Washington’s coast. Abby relocates to the island in order to help her sister (Mary) to adjust to her new life after a debilitating car accident which leaves Mary in a wheelchair. (Finnegan, Mary’s service dog, also helps.
This is a Christian theme mystery series which was offered by Guideposts as a membership club.
Washington, DC Visit … Gettysburg & Havre de Grace …
As I mentioned before, my husband and I went on a very short trip to visit our daughter. (She is interning in DC for the summer.) We lived out there when both our son and daughter were quite young, so we thought that it might be fun to go out and “show her around” the places we used to enjoy.
We lived in the DC area two different times. One of the times was a wonderful planned community called Columbia (in Maryland.) My husband commuted from Columbia to George Washington University for a year… which meant he had to go park his car in New Carrollton and then ride the metro downtown. That’s quite a daily commute! But, we loved being close to both the DC and the Baltimore areas. The Baltimore Aquarium is one of the finest of its kind… anyway it was (+/-) 20 years ago, and as a “young” family, we loved our trips to the Baltimore Zoo.
For this visit, we actually flew into the Baltimore airport and stayed out in that vicinity, rather than try to get a hotel in downtown DC. As long as we were renting a car, we thought we might as well commute back and forth, either by rental car or metro. We definitely saved money by renting a car VS. the price of hotels in downtown DC! (And I’m not talking about five star hotel accommodations!)
I had forgotten what it is like living in a very large-city environment… having access to wonderful transportation like the metro. [They tried to pass a metro-type of deal here in San Antonio -years ago- which was quickly defeated by a lot of people who had never experienced the joys of metro transportation. I think that it was at about the same time there was a big push toward getting our water DE-fluoridated. (That’s probably not a real word… but you probably can get the gist…)]
Anyway, back to our DC trip… It was so wonderful being in an area where you can drive less than two hours in any given direction and see something interesting.
We visited Gettysburg, Pennsylvania one day, and that was a truly emotional experience. If ever you go to the DC area, try to take the bus tour around the Gettysburg National Park. (Our tour guide is a teacher during the school year, and she was phenomenal!)
We took another day to visit a little (Maryland) town called Havre de Grace. I grew up listening to my grandmother talk about where she came from and thought that I would revisit this town, so that my daughter could get a sense of my grandmother. It is a beautiful town on the Susquehanna River – which flows into the Chesapeake Bay. We truly enjoyed the day.
As you can see, we didn’t do the “usual” things that people do when visiting the DC area, but, we did have an UNusually good time going off of the beaten path; immersing ourselves in both the history of our nation and the history of our family.
