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March 2010 Mystery Book New Releases

The following mystery books will be released in March 2010:

Sandra Balzo: From the Grounds Up (This will be the 5th in the Maggie Thorsen Mystery Series…)

Jo Bannister: Liars All (This will be the 9th in the Brodie Farrell Mystery Series…)

Carrie Bebris: The Intrigue at Highbury: Or, Emma’s Match (This will be 5th the in the Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery Series…)

Jessica Beck: Glazed Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW Donut Shop Mystery Series…)

Jennie Bentley: Plaster and Poison (This will be the 3rd in the Do-It-Yourself Mystery Series…)

Rhys Bowen: The Last Illusion (This will be the 9th in the Molly Murphy Mystery Series…)

Stephen J. Cannell: The Pallbearers (This will be the 9th in the Shane Scully Mystery Series…)

C. S. Challinor: Phi Beta Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Rex Graves Mystery Series…)

Laura Childs: The Teaberry Strangler (This will be the 11th in the Tea Shop Mystery Series…)

Barbara Cleverly: A Darker God (This will be the 3rd in the Laetitia Talbot Mystery Series…)

Harlan Coben: Caught (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Susan Conant & Jessica Conant-Park: Cook the Books (This will be the 5th in the Gourmet Girl Mystery Series…)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Red Delicious Death (This will be the 3rd in the Orchard Mystery Series…)

Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul: The Silent Sea (This will be the 7th in the Oregon Files Mystery Series…)

Linda Fairstein: Hell Gate (This will be the 12th in the Alexandra Cooper Mystery Series…)

Jonathan Kellerman: Deception (This will be the 25th in the Alex Delaware Mystery Series…)

Josi S. Kilpack: Devil’s Food Cake (This will be the 3rd in the Culinary Mystery Series…)

Victoria Laurie: Ghouls Gone Wild (This will be the 4th in the Ghost Hunter Mystery Series…)

Lisa Lutz: The Spellmans Strike Again (This will be the 4th in the Izzy Spellman Mystery Series…)

Evan Marshall: Dark Alley (This will be the 3rd in the Hidden Manhattan Mystery Series…)

Nancy Martin: Our Lady of Immaculate Deception (This will be the 1st in the NEW Roxy Abruzzo Mystery Series…)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Lucy Lawrence): Sprinkle with Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW Cupcake Mystery Series…)

Karen E. Olson: Pretty in Ink (This will be the 2nd in the Tattoo Shop Mystery Series…)

Anne Perry: The Sheen on the Silk (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Deanna Raybourn: The Dead Travel Fast (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Sara Rosett: Mint Juleps, Mayhem, and Murder (This will be the 5th in the Ellie Avery Mom Zone Mystery Series…)

Clea Simon: Grey Matters (This will be the 2nd in the Dulcie Schwartz Mystery Series…)

Rebecca Tope: Fear in the Cotswolds (This will be the 7th in the Thea Osborne Mystery Series…)

Jacqueline Winspear: The Mapping of Love and Death (This will be the 7th in the Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series…)

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Cozy Mystery Book Series: American Professor, Antique Shop…

I got a comment from Dawsalee asking for help. I feel like I should know this author, but I just can’t remember who he/she is. Do any of you have any ideas?

“I’m trying to find the name of the author who wrote at least two cozies set in England. The protagonist was an American professor who went to the Lake District (I think) to write about one of the poets. While there she meets a reformed thief who is running his own antique shop. It is not the Vicky Bliss series by Elizabeth Peters.”

Please post a comment if you think you might know who this author is…

Texas "Cowboys" and Their "Cowboy" Habits…

Let me preface this entry by saying that I have lived in several states, and countries. My father was a career Air Force man, so we moved a lot. I was born in Florida, although I spent the first year and a half of my life in Cuba. I have also lived in Chile, Spain, and Panama. The states I have lived in are various… Virginia, Maryland, Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, Florida, Connecticut, and for the last 17 years, Texas.

Perhaps I never noticed the subject of this entry, which bothers me so much in any of the other places I have lived because I wasn’t paying attention. OR, perhaps I wore rose-colored glasses and/or blinders throughout my life. Feel free to write and let me know that this actually is a common-place “activity” in other states. I have to say, however, that I certainly hope it isn’t!

I simply cannot stand to see men spit! I have never been aware of this good-grief-awful habit in any of the other place I have lived or visited. What is it about Texas that makes grown men think that it is all right to simply lean over and spit in public?!?!? Even in the days of chewing tobacco, didn’t the men use spittoons? And, really since all of these men aren’t doing the tobacco-in-their-lip-thing, just who do they think they are? Cowboys out on the range, driving their cattle to Kansas?

My grandfather and uncle were true cowboys… I mean real cowboys. Not the type of city slickers who don their cowboy boots, Stetson hats, and big belt buckles, while driving around in their big gas-guzzling trucks, never having seen a horse up close. My uncle owned a livestock auction barn in Colorado many years ago, and my grandfather was a rancher of cattle and horses. My mother’s family actually used to move cattle from one plot of land to the other… on horseback. So, I think that I can safely say they were a “cowboy” family. And, I NEVER saw any of them spit!

What is it about Texas? Or am I simply becoming more intolerant as I grow older? What is it that makes these grown men think that it’s acceptable to be so crude in public? Or am I simply expecting too much?

*****Disclaimer::: Don’t get me wrong, a very small percentage of men here in Texas have this uncontrollable habit!****

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