The Cozy Mystery List Blog

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

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…)

At Risk & The Front Win Garano's Movies, Not Kay Scarpetta, but Definitely Patricia Cornwell

So, while I was checking out when the next Jesse Stone movie would air, I came across some more information that should be interesting to all of us mystery book lovers. Patricia Cornwell‘s Win Garano Mystery Series will be featured on the Lifetime channel.

At Risk (Saturday, April 10) and The Front (Saturday, April 17) will be made-for-television movies starring Andie MacDowell (as Monique “Money” Lamont) and Daniel Sunjata (as Win Garano).

I am sure that most of you know that Patricia Cornwell is a New York Times bestselling author. It surprised me to find out that Cornwell’s Win Garano mystery series is the one that was selected to be filmed. I would have guessed that Cornwell’s wildly popular Kay Scarpetta mystery series would have been the chosen one to film. 

I’m glad to see that the Lifetime channel is bringing us movies by more and more of our mystery authors. Recently they aired some of Ann Rule‘s true crime books, and now this.

Bravo for Lifetime!

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