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February 2009 Mystery Book New Releases

The following mystery books will be released in February 2009:

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon (This will be the 14th in the Aunt Dimity Mystery Series…)

Lorna Barrett (aka L. L. Bartlett): Bookmarked for Death (This will be the 2nd in the Booktown Mystery Series…)

M. C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Death of a Witch (This will be the 25th in the Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series…)

Annette Blair: A Veiled Deception (This will be the 1st in the NEW Vintage Magic Mystery Series…)

Kate Carlisle: Homicide in Hardcover (This will be the 1st in the NEW Bibliophile Mystery Series…)

Kate Collins: Evil in Carnations (This will be the 8th in the Flower Shop Mystery Series…)

Susan Conant & Jessica Conant-Park: Fed Up (This will be the 4th in the Gourmet Girl Mystery Series…)

Jimmie Ruth Evans (aka Honor Hartman & Dean James): Leftover Dead (This will be the 5th in the Trailer Park Mystery Series…)

Linda Fairstein: Lethal Legacy (This will be the 11th in the Alexandra Cooper Mystery Series…)

Jerrilyn Farmer & Joan Rivers: Murder at the Academy Awards® (This will be the 1st in the NEW Red Carpet Murder Mystery Series…)

Joanne Fluke: Cream Puff Murder (This will be the 11th in the Cookie Jar Mystery Series…)

Margaret Grace (aka Camille Minichino): Malice in Miniature (This will be the 3rd in the Miniature Mystery Series…)

Rosemary Harris: The Big Dirt Nap (This will be the 2nd in the Dirty Business Mystery Series…)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Booby Trap (This will be the 4th in the Odelia Grey Mystery Series…)

Alice Kimberly (aka Cleo Coyle): The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion (This will be the 5th in the Haunted Bookshop Mystery Series…)

Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Cat Playing Cupid (This will be the 14th in the Joe Grey Cat Mystery Series…)

Tamar Myers: Batter Off Dead (This will be the 17th in the Pennsylvania Dutch Inn Mystery Series…)

Robert B. Parker: Night and Day (This will be the 9th in the Jesse Stone Mystery Series…If you don’t count Back Story as a Jesse Stone mystery…)

James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge: Run for Your Life (This will be the 2nd in the Michael Bennett Mystery Series…)

Louise Penny: A Rule Against Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Three Pines Mystery Series…) (Actually Jan. 20…)

Cathy Pickens: Can’t Never Tell (This will be the 5th in the Southern Fried Mystery Series…)

Emilie Richards: A Lie for a Lie (This will be the 4th in the Ministry is Murder Mystery Series…)

Joan Rivers & Jerrilyn Farmer: Murder at the Academy Awards® (This will be the 1st in the NEW Red Carpet Murder Mystery Series…)

J. D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts): Promises in Death (This will be the 29th in the Eve Dallas Mystery Series…)

David Roberts: No More Dying (This will be the 9th in the Edward Corinth/Verity Browne Mystery Series…)

Peter Robinson: All the Colors of Darkness (This will be the 18th in the Inspector Banks Mystery Series…)

S. J. Rozan: The Shanghai Moon (This will be the 9th in the Bill Smith & Lydia Chin Mystery Series…)

Michele Scott: Corked by Cabernet (This will be the 5th in the Wine Lover’s Mystery Series…)

Dana Stabenow: Whisper to the Blood (This will be the 16th in the Kate Shugak Mystery Series…)

Melinda Wells: Death Takes the Cake (This will be the 2nd in the Della Cooks Mystery Series…)

Jacqueline Winspear: Among the Mad (This will be the 5th in the Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series…)

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Linda Berry, Patricia Guiver, & Kacey Michaels: Three New Authors to the Cozy Mystery Site

If you have visited the What’s New Page very recently on the Cozy Mystery Site, then you know that I just added three new authors to the site. I have not yet read any of the three authors, but hopefully I will soon be able to remedy that… And, if you are familiar to the site, then you probably already know that I get my new authors from site readers who think that the authors belong on the Cozy Mystery Site.

Linda Berry: The Trudy Roundtree Mystery Series takes place in a small town in Georgia and features the only woman on an all-male police squad.

Patricia Guiver: The Pet Detective Mystery Series involves a sleuth who gets help from her very loyal side-kick (Watson) a Doberman Pinscher.

Kasey Michaels: Kacey Michaels is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author and writes the Maggie Kelly Mystery Series.

Again, a big thanks to all of you who have recommended authors who you really enjoy reading, and who you want other cozy mystery readers to be able to enjoy. 

First Cardinal Couple…

Oh my goodness! I just saw my first cardinal “couple” of the year flying from a tree to one of our red-tip bushes, and I am just so excited! Our weather down here in San Antonio is currently 72°, and we are expecting to get as high as 76° today. Winter is finally here!

Yes, that’s exactly what I mean… Today’s weather is exactly what we get during our winters, interspersed with “really cold” days. By this I mean that we range from days like today all the way down to a few days out of each year when we get below freezing temperatures. Last year we actually had an ice “storm”… which was particularly bad for some of us. (We lost power for a few days, but, the good news was that not everyone lost power… The houses across our street continued to get electricity throughout the entire time while the houses on our side of the street had to make quick trips to hardware stores in able to stock up on fire logs.)

Back to my cardinals! I think that they are probably my favorite birds. The deep red of the males is absolutely a phenomenal sight to me, and I also appreciate the very soft browns of the females. We have tall red-tip bushes all around the perimeter of our back yard, so we get quite a few different birds that nest out there. One year, just by chance, my husband and I were able to catch a glimpse of a Bluejay parent teaching three little Bluejays how to fly between the bushes… landing and taking off, back and forth, back and forth for several minutes. That was fun!

Isn’t it something when small things (like the sight of a pair of cardinals) can trigger such positive emotions in us? Isn’t nature grand!?!

Ellery Queen, John Creasy, & Leslie Charteris: Three "Old" Authors for the New Year…

I thought that I would start the New Year by adding (to the Cozy Mystery Site) three mystery authors who have been recommended by site readers. All three wrote their mysteries many years ago. The three authors of whom I am speaking are (as the title says) Ellery Queen, John Creasy, and Leslie Charteris.

While many people recognize the name Ellery Queen, many people are also familiar with John Creasy and Leslie Charteris, possibly without knowing it. The reason for this is that Leslie Charteris writes (“wrote”>>> but I try to do all of my postings in present tense!) The Saint Mystery Series. Some of you may remember The Saint television series from many years ago. The Saint (aka Simon Templar) is a rather dashing/debonair millionaire, who not only is a sleuth, but also a thief!

As for John Creasy, he has many pseudonyms and even more mystery (and spy) series. The pseudonyms that I am posting on the site include: J. J. Marric, M. E. Cooke, Robert Caine Frazer, Anthony Morton, Gordon Ashe, Rodney Mattheson, Patrick Gill, Brian Hope, Colin Hughes, Anthony Morton, Charles Hogarth, Richard Martin, Kyle Hunt, & Abel Mann.

As I said, a lot of people are familiar with Ellery Queen. Something I wasn’t aware of though is that Ellery Queen is a pseudonym for two cousins who write (actually “wrote”) the books and stories together. Years ago, I would get confused wondering if Ellery Queen was the author or the character of the particular series. And then there is the magazine by that same name! (Ellery Queen is the name of the main character of the mystery series written by the cousins using the pseudonym Ellery Queen… which a lot of times appears in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine!)

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