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May 2010 Mystery Book New Releases

The following mystery books will be released in May 2010:

Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Death Threads (This will be the 2nd in the Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series…)

Bill Crider & Clyde Wilson: Mississippi Vivian (This will be the 2nd in the Ted Stephens Series…)

Clive Cussler: The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy (This will be a Stand Alone for children…) (Another  very successful mystery author for adults has written a novel for children. I know I have written – many times – about how great I think this is!)

Denise Dietz: Soap Bubbles (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Earlene Fowler: State Fair (This will be the 14th in the Benni Harper Mystery Series…)

Carolyn Haines: Delta Blues (This will be a Stand Alone Anthology, edited by Carolyn Haines…)

Charlaine Harris: Dead in the Family (This will be the 10th in the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery Series…)

L. C. Hayden: When Death Intervenes (This will be the 5th in the Harry Bronson Mystery Series…)

Elise Hyatt: French Polished Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Daring Finds Mystery Series…)

Joyce & Jim Lavene: A Timely Vision (This will be the 1st in the NEW Missing Pieces Mystery Series…)

Donna Leon: A Question of Belief (This will be the 19th in the Guido Brunetti Mystery Series…)

Amy Myers: Tom Wasp and the Newgate Knocker (This will be the 2nd in the Tom Wasp Mystery Series…)

Robert B. Parker: Blue-Eyed Devil (This will be the 4th in the Virgil Cole Western Series…)

Nancy Pickard: The Scent of Rain and Lightning (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Ann Purser: The Hangman’s Row Enquiry (This will be the 1st in the NEW Ivy Beasley Mystery Series…)

Joanna Campbell Slan: Photo, Snap, Shot (This will be the 3rd in the Kiki Lownstein Scrap-n-Craft Mystery Series…)

Leann Sweeney: The Cat, the Professor and the Poison (This will be the 2nd in the Cats in Trouble Mystery Series…)

Elaine Viets: Half-Price Homicide (This will be the 9th in the Dead End Job Mystery Series…)

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J. B. Stanley (aka Jennifer Stanley) A New Favorite Mystery Author for Me!

Well, I am off of the “catch-up-with-all-my-favorite-Cozy-mystery-authors” bandwagon, and it’s only April! Some of you may remember that I set a goal at the beginning of the year to read through all of my favorite authors so that I could enjoy their new mystery books as they published them. That goal has flown with the wind!

Instead of enjoying my favorite Cozy mystery authors, I am finding myself enjoying NEW Cozy mystery authors. The latest addition to my new list is J. B. Stanley (aka Jennifer Stanley).

I just started her (new to me) Supper Club Mystery Series, and I am finding myself really looking forward to those quiet times during the day when I can get some reading done. I have tried a few other new (to me) authors recently, and found myself struggling to get to page 100 of their books, which is the (absolute!) most I “make” myself read a book that I am not enjoying. Now that it is taking me longer and longer to read books these days, I simply do not want to waste my time reading books I don’t enjoy…

Anyway, Carbs & Cadavers is the first in J. B. Stanley‘s Supper Club mystery series, and I am absolutely loving it. It has a lot of Cozy characteristics: small town where everyone seems to know each other, non-police main character, no gruesome details or explicit adult situations, author’s command of the language (making it unnecessary to need to use profanity to get across strong emotions), and main characters with whom I would enjoy spending time. It also has something which very much appeals to me: the main characters don’t all have long, unruly, beautiful, auburn tresses, and they aren’t (unbeknownst to them only!!!) beautiful people with perfect bodies.

Could You, Would You, Vote, Vote, Vote!?!

Most of you are familiar with Maria E. Schneider, a site reader who writes mysteries AND frequently leaves comments here. Some of you may remember when Maria asked us to help her decide on the book cover for her last book, Executive Lunch.

Maria has a new book that is in the process of being published, and she would like some help deciding which of book covers is the most preferred by mystery readers. Maria has the possible covers from which to choose for her new book, Tracking Magic.

Here is her site’s address to go cast your ballot:

http://www.bearmountainbooks.com/ (The voting is over.)

I know which one I like the most, how about you?

Site Reader Needs Help Solving Mystery of Mystery Book Author's Mysterious Identity…

As some of you know, I sometimes ask your help in solving little mysteries for some of the Cozy Mystery Site readers. This comes to us from Sandy:

“I was hoping one of the cozy mystery fanatics like myself would be able to help me find a series I “found” and “lost” a few years ago. The main characters where divorced but back together and I believe the woman was an accountant or investment broker. The husband inherited a trunk of treasure/gold? from a wayward uncle.

Does this ring any bells for anyone? I have been looking for awhile now and have googled every combination of the info I could think of but haven’t been able to find this series.

Thanks in advance for any help any one can provide.”

OK, Cozy Mystery Readers… Your mission, should you agree to accept it >>> Let’s see if we can come up with the name of the author and/or mystery series for Sandy!

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