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August 2010 Mystery Book New Releases

The following mystery books will be released in August 2010:

Nevada Barr: Burn (This will be the 16th in the Anna Pigeon Mystery Series…)

Lorna Barrett (aka L. L. Bartlett): Chapter & Hearse (This will be the 4th in the Booktown Mystery Series…)

Cynthia Baxter: Crossing the Lion (This will be the 9th in the Reigning Cats & Dogs Mystery Series…)

Jessica Beck: Fatally Frosted (This will be the 2nd in the Donut Shop Mystery Series…)

Judy Clemens: The Grim Reaper’s Dance (This will be the 2nd in the Grim Reader Mystery Series…)

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Roast Mortem (This will be the 9th in the Coffeehouse Mystery Series …)

Bill Crider: Murder in the Air (This will be the 17th in the Dan Rhodes Mystery Series…)

Ellen Crosby: The Viognier Vendetta (This will be the 5th in the Wine Country Mystery Series…)

Lonnie Cruse: Fifty-Seven Traveling (This will be the 2nd in the Kitty Bloodworth, ’57 Mystery Series…)

Clive Cussler & Grant Blackwood: Lost Empire (This will be the 2nd in the Fargo Adventure Series…)

Carole Nelson Douglas: Cat in an Ultramarine Scheme (This will be the 22th in the Midnight Louie Mystery Series…)

Dick Francis & Felix Francis: Crossfire (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Charlaine Harris & Toni L. P. Kelner (editors): Death’s Excellent Vacation (This will be an Anthology…)

Veronica Heley: Murder by Mistake (This will be the 11th in the Ellie Quicke Mystery Series…)

Miranda James (aka Dean James, Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans): Murder Past Due (This will be the 1st in the NEW Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series…)

Faye Kellerman: Hangman (This will be the 19th in the Decker & Lazarus Mystery Series…)

Toni L. P. Kelner & Charlaine Harris (editors): Death’s Excellent Vacation (This will be an Anthology…)

Tracy Kiely: Murder on the Bride’s Side (This will be the 2nd in the Elizabeth Parker Mystery Series…)

Victoria Laurie: The Curse of Deadman’s Forest (This will be the 2nd in the Children’s Oracles of Delphi Keep Mystery Series…)

Amanda Lee (aka Gayle Trent): The Quick and the Thread (This will be the 1st in the NEW Embroidery Mystery Series…)

Laura Lippman: I’d Know You Anywhere (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Debbie Macomber: 1022 Evergreen Place (This will be the 10th in the Cedar Cove Series – not a mystery…)

Nancy Mehl: Missing Mabel (This will be one of the Hometown Mystery Series… Author is found on the Heartsong Presents page…)

Leslie Meier: Wicked Witch Murder (This will be the 16th in the Lucy Stone Mystery Series…) (This will be a Halloween theme mystery…)

James Patterson & Liza Marklund: The Postcard Killers (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Kathy Reichs: Spider Bones (This will be the 13th in the Temperance Brennan Mystery Series…)

Cynthia Riggs: Touch Me Not (This will be the 9th in the Martha’s Vineyard Mystery Series…)

Peter Robinson: Bad Boy (This will be the 19th in the Inspector Banks Mystery Series…)

Carolyn J. Rose: Hemlock Lake (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Jennifer Stanley (aka J. B. Stanley & Ellery Adams): The Way of the Guilty (This will be the 3rd in the Hope Street Church Mystery Series…)

Terri Thayer: False Impressions (This will be the 3rd in the Stamping Sisters Mystery Series…)

Aimée & David Thurlo: Never-Ending-Snake (This will be the 14th in the Ella Clah Mystery Series…)

Charles Todd: An Impartial Witness (This will be the 2nd in the Bess Crawford Mystery Series…)

Penny Warner:  How to Crash a Killer Bash (This will be the 2nd in the Party Planning Mystery Series…)

Heather Webber: Deeply, Desperately (This will be the 2nd in the Lucy Valentine Mystery Series…)

♦To go back to the Cozy Mystery Book New Releases page, click here.♦

PS>>> I amended the above post so that it shows that Miranda James is indeed Dean James, Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans>>> I had asked for verification of this, thus the Cleo Coyle comment posted below…

Tess Gerritsen – Rizzoli & Isles AND The Closer on TNT channel tonight!

I know that I am sounding like a television commercial lately… but just want to remind those of you who are addicted (as I am!) to The Closer… It’s finally back.

Also, the debut of Terri Gerritsen’s Rizzoli & Isles show is tonight. Since I haven’t seen it yet, I can only hope that it is as good as some of the other shows the cable channels have been airing lately. Some of my very favorite shows can be found on TNT and USA! Who’d have thunk it?!?

Here is a link to my previous entry about TNT‘s new show :  Tess Gerritsen’s Rizzoli & Isles show.

And, here is a link that sort of provides a little information on another TNT show: The Closer.

I can only hope that Rizzoli & Isles is as good as The Closer!

Hercule Poirot : Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie – PBS NEW Masterpiece Mystery!

Do NOT forget that the latest version of Murder on the Orient Express will be airing tonight, July 11, 2010. Yes, it’s true! The (British) actor David Suchet will deliver yet another perfect portrayal of the Belgian private investigator. (What Jeremy Brett is to Sherlock Holmes, David Suchet is to Hercule Poirot!)

I recently re-watched the 1974 movie version of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (directed by Sidney Lumet) just so that I could compare that particular version to tonight’s Masterpiece Mystery! 90-minute version. (Having already read the Agatha Christie mystery, and seen both the 1974 version of the movie, and a 1930/1940 movie, I knew I wouldn’t be spoiling the actual plot.)

The 1974 movie stars Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot, and has a dream cast of actors from the 1970s. (Watching the 1974 Albert Finney Murder on the Orient Express reminded me of watching Murder, She Wrote… and having all of the “A-list” guest stars in one 2-hour movie…)

If you have a yearning for seeing: Albert Finney and (by alphabetical order) Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark,and Michael York… all in the confines of a very luxurious, absolutely splendorous train setting, with gorgeous chandeliers that shimmer and shine, mother-of-pearl inlays in the (¿mahogany?) wood paneling of the walls, private sleeping cars that are without doubt unequal today, shared sleeping berths that would make you wish you could travel in the second-class section >>>Well then, this 1974 Murder on the Orient Express is for you!

BUT >>> If you have a desire for watching Hercule Poirot as only David Suchet can portray him, then make sure you are either sitting in front of your television tonight (on your local PBS station) OR you don’t forget to set your mode of recording!

I only wish that Hugh Frasier (Capt. Hastings) and Pauline Moran (Miss Lemon) could have come aboard!

Mystery Series with Tribal Herbology AND Mystery Series with WWII, New York Private Eye…

It’s that time again when I ask for help in identifying authors for Cozy Mystery site readers.  OK… I feel like I know this first author, but cannot seem to bring it to the front of my brain. So…

Allison would like to know who the author of these books is…

“The major character has an American Indian background and uses cures and concoctions based on traditional tribal herbology. She primarily deals with cases of abused women and usually takes them away and furnishes them with secure housing.
Does anyone recognize this author?”

AND

Linda would like to know the identity of this author…

“I know this is pretty vague information, however it’s all I can remember.  I’m looking for the author of 2 books – the books feature a female private investigator in New York City after WW2.  She works with a male FBI agent and she is looking for her boyfriend who has been missing since the war.  In the second book she goes to Germany to locate a missing woman and also searches for her boyfriend.  I think the books were published in 2007 or ’08.”

If anyone has a suggestion, please post a comment so that Linda and Allison can get back to reading some of their favorite authors. And, thank you for your help!

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