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Authors Similar to Agatha Christie : If You’ve Run Out of Agatha Christie Mysteries:

February 28, 2008

This morning I received a letter asking me for some advice. The writer wanted to know which authors she could try who fall in the Agatha Christie “category” (my word, not hers.) I thought that I would write a blog addressing this inquiry, since I have been asked this very same question by several people.

I know that this is presumptuous, but I am guessing that most of us got to be hard-core cozy mystery buffs after we read our first Agatha Christie novel. And, most of us have probably made our way through so many of the Christie novels that we can’t remember which is which. Once we have had our Christie fill, there are other authors we can turn to (thank goodness!) The following is a list of authors who I would consider trying out if I were just starting on the cozy mystery route. This is not to say that they are Agatha imitators… by any means! They are just the ones who I would recommend if I really had a love of all things Christie…

My Author Picks:

Ngaio Marsh:  Inspector Roderick Alleyn Mystery Series

Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael Mystery Series

Ruth Rendell:  Inspector Wexford Mystery Series

(I have added a lot of authors to this list because they have been recommended by Cozy Mystery site readers as belonging on this Authors Similar to Agatha Christie list. I have not read several of these recommended authors. At first I didn’t know whether to add them to my list or not, since I couldn’t vouch for them. Eventually I added the authors, and hope they truly belong on this list!)

Other People’s Picks for Authors similar to Agatha Christie:

Cathy Ace: Cait Morgan Mystery Series

Catherine Aird:  Inspector Sloan Mystery Series

Margery Allingham:  Albert Campion Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton:  Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series AND Agatha Raisin Mystery Series

Elizabeth Daly: Henry Gamadge Mystery Series

John Dickson Carr (aka Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, & Roger Fairbairn): Gideon Fell Mystery Series AND Henri Bencolin Mystery Series

Mary Higgins Clark: Stand Alone mysteries

Deborah Crombie:  Kincaid & James Mystery Series

Carola Dunn:  Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series

Marjorie Eccles:  Gil Mayo Mystery Series

Kathy Lynn Emerson:  Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery Series

E. X. Ferrars:  Andrew Basnett Mystery Series, Toby Dyke Mystery Series, & Freer Mystery Series

Anthea Fraser:  David Webb & Ken Jackson Mystery Series

Dorothy Gilman:  Mrs. Pollifax Mystery Series

Caroline Graham: Midsomer Murder Mystery Series

Ann Granger: Markby and Mitchell Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher Mystery Series

Martha Grimes:  Jury & Plant Mystery Series

Georgette Heyer: Superintendent Hannasyde Mystery Series

Hazel Holt: Mrs. Malory Mystery Series

P. D. James:  Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series

M.M. Kaye: Death in ***** Mystery Series

Jill McGown:  Lloyd & Hill Mystery Series

Gladys Mitchell:  Mrs. Bradley Mystery Series

Stuart Palmer: Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series

Louise Penny: Three Pines Mystery Series

Dorothy L. Sayers:  Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Series

Georges Simenon:  Inspector Maigret Mystery Series

Dorothy Simpson:  Inspector Luke Thanet Mystery Series

Rex Stout:  Nero Wolfe Mystery Series

Josephine Tey: Scotland Yard Inspector Mystery Alan Grant

Patricia Wentworth:  Miss Maud Silver Mystery Series

Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to Agatha Christie, and I will add them to the list.

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Our "puppy" isn't such a puppy!

February 27, 2008

Where does the time go!? It seems like only a few years ago that we added our dog, Sprite (not named after the soda pop… but the elfin-type of sprite, and the computer graphics term) to our family. But, it has actually been thirteen years. So, technically, she isn’t our puppy any more… but our aging dog.

We "adopted" her (as I said) thirteen years ago, when I was a member of several online mystery reading groups. It’s funny how I remember those types of details, but I can’t remember when (or IF!) I bought a book by a favorite author. Anyway, getting back to Sprite…

I must say, it is sad seeing her get old. This sounds as if I think that time has been kinder to me… But, thirteen years ago I was much more able to pick up our thirty five pound Sprite and whisk her up the stairs. And, of course, since I can’t carry up my cup of coffee at the same time, that means I go up and down the stairs twice for every time I actually want to go up and down. She seems to never want me out of her sight. (This has been the case since my husband and I became empty nesters… and carries over even when our children are home.) She truly is a member of our family, but somehow, she has become my dog… barking whenever I forget to get her off of the couch, whimpering when she wants to be taken upstairs, yipping when I forget that she is fed at the precise time her body’s clock has dinner time set, even moaning when I forget that she gets her pills at the exact time we sit down for dinner.

Lately, I have been having to carry her up our stairs every time I go upstairs. The only time that she is actually prepared to even attempt the staircase is at 9:30 PM, when she knows that she will soon be getting comfortable on my husband’s and my bed (or should I say "the three of ours bed"?!?). This ritual of having to carry her up SEVERAL times a day is getting a little tedious, not to say exhausting to me. But, she has been such a wonderful addition to our family… a true companion who listens intently to every little thing we want to tell her. How could we leave her downstairs by herself?

I do, though, wish that we had taught her that "STAY" really means stay… and not "follow me downstairs while I get another cup of coffee, and then take my cup of coffee upstairs before I go back downstairs to lug you upstairs with me!"

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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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