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March 2008 Mystery New Releases:

February 24, 2008

Sarah Atwell: Through a Glass, Deadly (This will be the first in the NEW Glassblowing Mystery Series.)

Deb Baker: Dolly Departed (This will be the third in the Dolls to Die For Mystery Series.)

Rhys Bowen: Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (This will be the seventh in the Molly Murphy, Irish Immigrant Mystery Series.)

Laura Childs: The Silver Needle Murder (This will be the ninth in the Theodosia Browning Mystery Series.)

Carol Higgins Clark: Zapped (This will be the sixteenth in the Regan Reilly Mystery Series.)

Mary Higgins Clark: Where Are You Now? (This will be a stand-alone.)

Susan Conant & Jessica Conant-Park: Turn Up the Heat (This will be the third in the Gourmet Girl Mystery Series.)

Mary Daheim: The Alpine Traitor (This will be the twentieth in the Emma Lord (Alpine) Mystery Series… actually out Feb. 26)

Hannah Dennison: A Vicky Hill Exclusive! (This will be first in the NEW Vicky Hill Mystery Series.)

Linda Fairstein: Killer Heat (This will be the tenth in the Alex Cooper Mystery Series.)

Jerrilyn Farmer: Desperately Seeking Sushi (This will be the 8th in the Madeline Bean Culinary Mystery Series.)

Carolyn G. Hart: Death Walked In (This will be the eighteenth in the Death on Demand Mystery Series.)

Jonathan Kellerman: Compulsion (This will be the 22nd in the Alex Delaware Mystery Series.)

Victoria Laurie: Demons Are a Ghoul’s Best Friend (This will the the second in the Ghost Hunter Mystery Series.)

Laura Lippman: Another Thing to Fall (This will be tenth in the Tess Monaghan Mystery Series.)

Nancy Martin: Murder Melts in Your Mouth (This will by the seventh in the Blackbird Sisters Mystery Series.)

Louise Penny: The Cruelest Month (This will be the third in the Three Pines Mystery Series.)

Anne Perry: Buckingham Palace Gardens (This will be the twenty sixth in the Thomas & Charlotte Pitt Mystery Series.)

Sharon Short: Tie Dyed and Dead (This will be the sixth in the Stain-Busting Mystery Series… actually out Feb. 26)

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New Authors to the Cozy Mystery Site, Pt. 2…

February 23, 2008

I have added more authors to the site… and I want you all to know, I really appreciate your recommendations. This time I am adding eight new authors, and also, should say that two of the authors have been added to the "cat cozy mystery" list, and one of them to the "librarian cozy" list.

Fran Stewart writes the Biscuit McKee and Marmalade Mystery Series, which features a librarian and her cat. (So, Stewart has been added to both the cat and librarian cozy lists.)

Clea Simon writes a series (the Theda Krakow Mystery Series) which features a music writer with her cat (muse)… Musetta. (So, Simon has been added to the cat cozy list.)

Marlys Millhiser writes the Charlie Greene Mystery Series… Charlie is a literary agent in California who is also a very capable sleuth.

The Three Dirty Women Landscaping, Inc Series is written by Julie Wray Herman. (Don’t you just love the name of the series?)

The Tracy Eaton Mystery Series is written by Kris Neri who, interestingly, owns a bookstore in Arizona.

When Fiona Mountain came up with her series name that has a sleuth who happens to be a genealogist, she came up with a great idea: the Natasha Blake Ancestor Detective Mystery Series.

The Olivia Brown Mystery Series and the Smith & Wetzon Mystery Series (that’s right, not Smith & Wesson!) is written by Annette Meyers. (Meyers is also half of the Maan Meyers duo… her husband Martin being the other half… who write the Dutchman Historical Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Ironside (aka Lady Catherine Manning) has written five stand-alone mystery novels.

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII: 1970s BBC Version…

February 21, 2008

Six Wives of Henry VIII, The Wow! I just finished re-watching The Six Wives of Henry VIII, and I am left flabbergasted! I loved this miniseries, and am so glad I was able to “get past” some reviewers’ ideas. I remembered the series as being luxurious and beautiful,  and I think that I enjoyed it even more now than I did the last time I watched it. Be forewarned though… this is another series that I have written about that is not a mystery, but it is such a wonderful BBC production that I felt I would be remiss to not write about it.

BBC produced the miniseries in the early 1970s. The miniseries is about Henry VIII and his six different wives and is comprised of six different episodes. The interesting thing (to me) is that each wife’s story is written by a different playwright… but the story line is continuously fluid. I think that the reason that all six of the stories flow so well is the excellent portrayal of Henry VIII by Keith Mitchell.. He is absolutely superb. We see Henry age, expand, and eventually wizen… and it is difficult to believe that the same actor is beneath those wonderful costumes. We can almost smell Henry as his leg progressively worsens. Now, that is great acting… if you can (just about) smell the foul infection as it progresses… (While he courts beautiful, young maidens, no less!)

Catherine of Aragon (Annette Crosbie) and Anne Boleyn (Dorothy Tutin) share the first DVD… Quite a contrast in wives! The second disc covers the days (just about!) of Jane Seymour (Anne Stallybrass) and Anne of Cleeves (Elvi Hale). (I was most touched by Henry’s complete “devotion” to Jane Seymour… the only wife to produce a son, albeit not a very healthy one.) Catherine Howard (Angela Pleasence) and Catherine Parr (Rosalie Crutchley) were his two last wives- (How convenient that he had three wives named Catherine, and two named Anne… Less of a chance that he would call them the wrong name… although, it is extremely doubtful that he would have minded at all!)

As an added bonus, the 2003 BBC version of The Other Boleyn Girl (with Jodhi May as Anne Boleyn, Natascha McElhone as Mary, Anne’s sister, and Jared Harris as Henry VIII) was tucked into the set. At first I thought I was not going to like it, since it was a completely different production, with completely different actors, sets, wardrobe, etc. But, I am glad I stayed with the movie after the initial surprise/jolt… I enjoyed it immensely. (I think that it would probably be a better idea to not watch this movie right after finishing the other six shows… It’s difficult to see a different actor portray Henry VIII right after having watched Keith Mitchell become Henry VIII.)  I had no sooner finished re-watching the series than I saw an advertisement for a new version of The Other Boleyn Girl… starring Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. I hope it’s as good as the 2003 version… but I do wonder why they are remaking a 2003 movie only five years later… I am guessing that the 2008 version spared no expen$e.

As I am only (so far) writing about TV shows and movies that I have enjoyed, I must remind people that some of these television shows were made as long ago as the 1970s, “back when” they had no idea that a close up was going to be shown on a fifty inch television screen. Also before the time when the producers thought that audio would be in “surround stereo.” All in all, I really enjoyed The Six Wives of Henry VIII, regardless of the lack of special effects and other techno-babbles. The sets, costumes, acting, and ambiance were right on the mark for me!

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Latest M. C. Beaton: Hamish Macbeth

February 19, 2008

I just got the latest M. C. Beaton novel and I can’t wait to start reading it… Death of a Gentle Lady… I always look forward to Beaton’s Hamish novels. (I’m not quite as crazy about Beaton’s Agatha Raisin books. They  just aren’t holding my attention as well as they did when she first started the series.)

And, as if Death of a Gentle Lady isn’t cozy enough…  My husband and I are re-watching the Miss Marple BBC shows with Joan Hickson. I hadn’t watched the shows for a few years, but after I wrote the blog about the shows, I decided it was time to get them out and re-watch them.  I am loving them (all over again!) I really can see why Agatha Christie thought Joan Hickson was the best choice to play Miss Marple… She is perfect. And, the scenery is absolutely beautiful… (When my husband and I finally start travelling, England is the destination highest on my list of places to visit.)

So, now I have one of my favorite cozy television shows to watch and one of my favorite author’s cozy mystery to read… Perfection! 

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