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History Theme Mystery Novels…

I just added four more reader-recommended mystery authors to the Cozy Mystery Site. They all have a History Theme in common.

Ann McMillan: Civil War Mystery Series… As the name of the series indicates, it takes place during the Civil War. It is set in Virginia, and as an added bonus, there is a Herbalist Theme…

Paula Paul (aka Paula Carter): Dr. Alexandra Gladstone Mystery Series… The series takes place in Victorian England… AND as Paula Carter: Murder by Design Mystery Series… This series is set in Alabama and involves a decorator and her assistant…

Sharon Kay Penman: Medieval Mystery Series… This particular series is set in England during the late twelfth century… AND the Welsh Trilogy AND the Henry & Eleanor Trilogy… Neither of the trilogies are not mysteries…

Candace Robb: Owen Archer Mystery Series… This series sleuths are Owen (the archbishop’s Captain of the Guard/Spy) and his apothecary wife. The series takes place during the 1300s in Great Britain… AND the Margaret Kerr Mystery Series… This series takes place during the 1200s in Edinburgh.

November 2008 Mystery Book New Releases:

The following mystery books will be released in November 2008:

Madelyn Alt: No Rest for the Wiccan (This will be the 4th in the Bewitching Mystery Series…)

Donna Andrews: Six Geese A-Slaying (This will be the 10th in the Meg Langslow Mystery Series… It is a Christmas mystery…) (Actually…Oct. 28)

Sarah Atwell (aka Sheila Connolly): Pane of Death (This will be the 2nd in the Glassblowing Mystery Series…)

David Baldacci: Divine Justice (This will be the 4th in the Camel Club Mystery Series…)

Mignon F. Ballard: Hark! The Herald Angel Screams (This will be the 7th in the Augusta Goodnight Mystery Series… It is a Christmas mystery…)

Cynthia Baxter: Murder Packs a Suitcase (This will be the 1st in the NEW Murder Packs a Suitcase Mystery Series…) (Actually…Oct. 28)

Lawrence Block: One Night Stands and Lost Weekends (This will be a Stand Alone of Stories…)

Rita Mae Brown: Santa Clawed (This will be the 17th in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series… It is a Christmas mystery…)

Laura Childs: Eggs in Purgatory  (This will be the 1st in the NEW Cackleberry Club Mystery Series…) (Actually… Dec. 2)

Barbara Cleverly: Bright Hair about the Bone (This will be the 2nd in the Laetitia Talbot Mystery Series…) (Actually… Oct. 28)

Clive & Dirk Cussler: Arctic Drift (This will be the 20th in the Dirk Pitt Mystery Series…)

Jeffery Deaver: Bodies Left Behind (This will be the 1st in the NEW Brynn McKenzie Mystery Series…) (Possibly early December…)

James D. Doss: Snake Dreams (This will be the 13th in the Charlie Moon Mystery Series…)

Melissa Glazer (aka Tim Myers & Elizabeth Bright): A Fatal Slip (This will be the 3rd in the Clay & Crime Mystery Series…)

Karen Harper: The Hiding Place (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles: Game Over (This will be the 11th in the Bill Slider Mystery Series…)

Ellen Hart: Sweet Poison (This will be the 17th in the Jane Lawless Mystery Series…It is a Halloween mystery…)

Reginald Hill: The Price of Butcher’s Meat (This will be the 23rd in the Dalziel & Pascoe Mystery Series…)

Julie Hyzy (written w/ Michael A. Black): Dead Ringer (This will be the 3rd in the Alex St. James Mystery Series…)

P. D. James: The Private Patient (This will be the 14th in the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series…)

Kate Kingsbury: Ringing in Murder (This will be the 16th in the Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Series… It is a Christmas mystery…)

Karen MacInerney: Murder Most Maine (This will be the 3rd in the Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series…)

Karen MacInerney: On the Prowl (This will be the 2nd in the Tales of Urban Werewolf Mystery Series…)

Marcia Muller: Burn Out (This will be the 26th in the Sharon McCone Mystery Series…)

James Patterson: Cross Country (This will be the 14th in the Alex Cross Mystery Series…)

Anne Perry: A Christmas Grace (This will have a Thomas & Charlotte Pitt tie-in, and is in Perry’s Christmas Mystery Series…) (Actually…Oct.28)

Anne Perry: Anne Perry’s Christmas Mysteries (This will include both A Christmas Guest & A Christmas Secret…) (Actually…Oct. 28)

Ann Purser: Warning at One (This will be the 1st in the NEW Lois Meade Mystery Series…)

J. D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts): Salvation in Death (This will be the 28th in the Eve Dallas Mystery Series…)

Ann Rule: Mortal Danger (This will be a True Crime Stand Alone…)

Kate Sedley: The Green Man (This will be the 17th in the Roger the Chapman Mystery Series…)

Alexander McCall Smith: The World According to Bertie (This will be the 4th in the 44 Scotland Street NON Mystery Series…)

Marcia Talley: Dead Man Dancing (This will be the 7th in the Hannah Ives Mystery Series…)

Peter Tremayne: Dancing with Demons (This will be the 18th in the Sister Fidelma Mystery Series…) (Actually…Oct.28)

Margaret Truman: Murder Inside the Beltway (This will be a  Capital Crimes Mystery…) (Actually…Oct.28)

Elaine Viets: Murder with All the Trimmings (This will be the 4th in the Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper Mystery Series… It is a Christmas mystery…)

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Susan Rogers Cooper… One of My Very Favorite Authors…

Good Grief!!! I don’t know how I missed Susan Rogers Cooper’s last E. J. Pugh mystery…. BUT I DID!!!! Romanced to Death came out this past August… and somehow, I lost it in my computer-desk mess!

So…. While looking this up…. I found out that she is putting out yet another mystery in January 2009… That one will be a MIlt Kovak mystery (Shotgun Wedding)… and I have to admit that Milt Kovak is my favorite of her three mystery series.

I have tried to find her website, to possibly find out why she took such a long break from writing her three mystery series (the other one is the Kimmey Kruse mystery series). I am wondering if that is why she was under my radar, so to speak. It seems like she wrote mystery novels pretty consistently from 1988 to 2000, and then took a (much-deserved) break. As one of Susan Rogers Cooper‘s fans, I hoped that she had not decided to retire from writing her mysteries. So, when she put out a Milt Kovac novel in 2003, and then followed that up in 2007 with another, I was… very happy to say the least! 

(P. S.  Can you tell I’m excited?!?!)

2008 Nero Awards, Derringer Awards, & Anthony Awards

Where has the time gone!? I can’t believe that I am this far behind on posting the 2008 Derringer Award Winners, the 2008 Nero Award Nominees and the 2008 Anthony Award Nominees. (I will be annotating the winners of the Anthony Awards after they are announced this weekend.)

I started working on all of these awards a while back, then put them on hold for a while, and just yesterday I decided that I really did have to get them posted on my Awards pages.

I saw a few authors who look familiar, and then of course, there are authors who are not yet familiar names for me. (I know that I have said this before, but the Malice Domestic Agatha Awards are really the awards that include most of our cozy authors… which makes perfect sense, since they are actually named for the woman with the name which is most synonymous with cozy mysteries.)

Whew! What a relief it is to finally get this done! I hope that you find some authors who you think that you might enjoy reading amongst all of them!

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