The Cozy Mystery List Blog

Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV

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!

Janie Bolitho, Amanda Flower, Maria E. Schneider, & Paige Shelton… Mystery Book Authors…

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

Janie Bolitho: Bolitho writes two British mystery series. The Rose Trevelyan series features a Cornish countryside artist who just happens to be a sleuth, and the Ian Roper series features a chief inspector.

Amanda Flower: Flower, a college librarian, writes the India Hayes mystery series which features a college librarian who happens to sleuth.

Maria E. Schneider has written three Stand Alone mysteries. Two of Schneider’s mysteries combine sci-fi/fantasy elements with the mysteries. (Expect to see a little romance thrown in, also!) 

Paige Shelton: Shelton writes the Farmer’s Market Mystery Series which features Becca Robins, a farm owner who makes jams and preserves, when she’s not out solving mysteries.

Tess Gerritsen: Rizzoli & Isles Television Show

OK, OK >>> I realize that some of you are not television fans, and that you would rather be hearing about books.  But, I have one more thing to add, which I found while looking around for the upcoming Jesse Stone movie.

Here’s some good news for fans of Tess Gerritsen‘s Jane Rizzoli mystery books: TNT is going to be airing Rizzoli & Isles, a new medical examiner/police procedural television show very soon >>> starting some time this summer.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with this non-cozy Gerritsen mystery series, it features a detective (Jane Rizzoli) and a medical examiner (Maura Isles) who solve mysteries in Boston, Massachusetts. The Jane Rizzoli role will be played by Angie Harmon (remember her from Law & Order?) and Sasha Alexander (NCIS) in the part of Maura Isles. Lorraine Bracco will be in the show playing Harmon’s mother… which is great news for me, since I enjoy her work so much.

I don’t have a lot of details, other than they are filming the show, and TNT has ordered ten episodes.

TNT has “gone outside of the box” with several of their shows, and I LOVE that! It seems that the TNT higher-ups don’t believe that shows’ strong leading roles have to be carried by men. I watch several of the TNT shows with female leads (one of which is The Closer with Kyra Sedgwick) and am absolutely delighted that in this day, when we are telling our young women that yes, they can and should be majoring in fields like engineering, physics, and math, that TNT is willing to put their production money where society’s mouth is! (Does that make sense? Probably not, but I think you can get my drift…)

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