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Mystery Books that Take Place in Massachusetts:

Here are some Fun Massachusetts Facts:

State Motto: “By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty.”
Massachusetts’ name means “at or about the great hill.”
State Flower is the Mayflower.
Capital is Boston.
State Bird is the Chickadee.
Harvard was the first North American college, founded in 1636. Every December 16, there is a reenactment of the Boston Tea Party at the Boston harbor.

Authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site and who feature Massachusetts locations in their books:

Annie’s Quilted Mystery Series 

Judith Arnold: Lainie Lovett Still Kicking Mystery Series

Linda Barnes: Carlotta Carlyle Mystery Series AND Michael Spraggue Mystery Series

Nero Blanc (aka Cordelia Frances Biddle & Steve Zettler): Crossword Mystery Series

Anne Canadeo: Black Sheep Knitting Mystery Series

Susan Conant: Dog Lover’s Mystery Series, Cat Lover’s Mystery Series, & Gourmet Girls Series (with her daughter Jessica Conant-Park)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Orchard Mystery Series

Sharon Love Cook: Rose McNichols Mystery Series

Philip R. Craig: Martha’s Vineyard Mystery Series

Dicey Deere: Torrey Tunet Mystery Series (Boston native in Ireland)

Joanne Dobson: Karen Pelletier Mystery Series

Patricia Driscoll: Grace Oliver Mystery Series (Cape Cod)

G.H. Ephron (aka Hallie Ephron & Donald A. Davidoff): Peter Zak Mystery Series

Janet Evanovich: Unmentionables / Diesel Mystery Series

Cynthia Gallant-Simpson:  Deadly Mystery Series AND Nantucket Mystery Series

Sally Goldenbaum: Seaside Knitters Mystery Series

Sally Gunning: Peter Bartholomew Mystery Series

Barbara Hamilton: Abigail Adams Mystery Series

Sherry Harris: Sarah Winston Garage Mystery Series

Julianne Holmes: Clock Shop Mystery Series

Toni L.P. Kelner: Where Are They Now? Mystery Series

Harry Kemelman: Rabbi Small Mystery Series

Kathryn Lasky Knight: Calista Jacobs Mystery Series

Mary Kruger: Knitting Mystery Series

Jane Langton: Homer Kelly Mystery Series

Anna Maclean (aka Jeanne MacKin): Lousia May Alcott Mystery Series

Charlotte MacLeod (aka Alisa Craig): Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mystery Series AND Peter Shandy & Helen Shandy Mystery Series

Ada Madison (aka Camille Minichino & Margaret Grace): Sophie Knowles Mystery Series

Francine Mathews (aka Stephanie Barron):  Nantucket Mystery Series

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Local Foods Mystery Series

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Carriagetown Mystery Series

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Quaker Midwife Mystery Series

Margaret Miles: Bracebridge Mystery Series

Camille Minichino (aka Margaret Grace): Periodic Table Mystery Series

Katherine Hall Page: Faith Fairchild Mystery Series

Robert B. Parker: Jesse Stone Mystery Series, Spenser (for Hire) Mystery Series, AND Sunny Randall Mystery Series

Cynthia Peale: Beacon Hill Mystery Series

Carol J. Perry: Witch City Mystery Series

Nancy Pickard: Jenny Cain Mystery Series

Suzanne Price: Grime Solvers Mystery Series

Cynthia Riggs: Martha’s Vineyard Mystery Series

Hank Phillippi Ryan: Charlotte McNally Mystery Series

Hank Phillippi Ryan: Jane Ryland & Jake Brogan Mystery Series

P.B. Ryan: Gilded Age Mystery Series

Secrets of Mary’s Bookshop – a Guidepost mystery series

Clea Simon: Theda Krakow Mystery Series

Winona Sullivan: Sister Cecile Mystery Series

Sarah Stewart Taylor: Sweeney St. George Series

Heather Webber: Lucy Valentine Mystery Series

Eugenia Lovett West: Emma Streat Mystery Series

Leslie Wheeler: Living History Mystery Series

Lauren Willig: Pink Carnation Mystery Series

Please feel free to contact me if you see an author from the Cozy Mystery Site who belongs on this list, or if you have any comments.

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Katherine Hall Page Contest!!!

Agatha Award winner Katherine Hall Page just contacted me and told me about a contest she will be having. The prize is a signed advanced copy of her new book, The Body in the Sleigh, which is due out in October.

To enter, click here: www.katherine-hall-page.org

The Body in the Sleigh is the 18th in the Faith Fairchild Mystery Series, and for those of you who love seasonal/holiday mysteries… add this one to your Christmas list! (I know I will!)

I won’t give away all of the book’s “happenings,” but I will tell you that Faith and her husband (the Reverend Thomas Fairchild) will be enjoying an unusual holiday season. The Reverend is home while recovering from a recent surgery, which means there will be more time to spend together as a family. Unfortunately Faith finds an atypical sleigh passenger in an antique sleigh…

PS>>> Did you know that Katherine Hall Page is the first person to win three categories of the Malice Domestic Agatha Awards?

Yep!

Katherine Hall Page won the Agatha Best Novel in 2005 for The Body in the Snowdrift and was nominated in 2002 for The Body in the Bonfire. In 1990 she won the Agatha Best First Novel for The Body in the Belfry. And, in 2001 she won the Agatha Best Short Story in 2001 for The Would-be-Widower and was nominated for The Two Marys in 2004.

That’s a whole lot of Cozy Mystery reading!

Ruth Birmingham, Walter Sorrells, Lynn Abercrombie, David Handler, 1/2 of Russell Andrews, Charlotte Hughes, Marne Davis Kellogg : Four (not 7?) New Authors to the Cozy Mystery Site

Here are the last of the authors I have posted on the Cozy Mystery Site. As you all know, I get recommendations from site readers who think that “their” authors will fit in with the site’s Cozy theme. If you have recommended an author who is not in this last batch to be posted, not to worry! I am already working on the next group of authors who you all have recommended to be part of the Cozy Mystery Site.

Walter Sorrells, Ruth Birmingham, & Lynn Abercrombie: All three of these authors are one-and-the-same person. Birmingham writes the Sunny Childs Mystery Series, Lynn Abercrombie has the Cold Case Thriller Series, and Walter Sorrells writes stand-alone thrillers, along with the Hunted Series and the Chass Pureheart Series for young adults.

David Handler (and 1/2 of Russell Andrews): Handler writes two mystery series by himself: the Berger & Mitry Mystery Series, which features a film critic and a policewoman and the Stewart Hoag & Lulu Mystery Series, which features a loyal Basset Hound and her ghostwriter owner. Handler teams up with Peter Gethers to write as Russell Andrews.

Charlotte Hughes: Hughes writes the Kate Holly Mystery Series which features a clinical psychologist. She also co-authors the Max Holt Full Series with Janet Evanovich.   

Marne Davis Kellogg: Kellogg writes two series: the Kick Keswick Mystery Series which features a retired jewel thief and auctioneer, and the Lilly Bennett Mystery Series which features a Wyoming private detective.

Thank you all for your author recommendations!

Marnette Falley, Karen E. Olson, Wendy Roberts, & Beth Sherman : Four New Mystery Authors on the Cozy Mystery Site

As most of the regular readers of the Cozy Mystery Site already know, I add new authors (to me, anyway!) to the site that you all have recommended. When I post the new authors, I haven’t read any of them (yet!) >>> but I must say that some of the recommended authors really do look interesting to me.

Marnette Falley: Falley wrote the latest (fourth) book in the popular Queen Bees Quilt Mystery Series, which was started by Sally Goldenbaum.

Karen E. Olson: Olson writes the Tattoo Shop Mystery Series which is set in Las Vegas. (I believe this is the first with the tattoo theme.) She also writes the Annie Seymour Mystery Series…

Wendy Roberts: Roberts writes the Ghost Dusters Mystery Series which features a death scene cleaning company. The main character gets help solving mysteries from ghosts.

Beth Sherman: Sherman writes the Jersey Shore Mystery Series which features a ghostwriter (as in “author” not the 6th sense!) from the Jersey Shore…

“Thank you” to all of you who have made author recommendations!

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