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Card Making Cozy Mysteries and Scrap Booking Cozy Mysteries…

There are just a few more crafting cozy mystery series that I want to present, two of which are the Card Making Cozy Mystery Series and the Scrap Booking Cozy Mystery Series. It seems like our “real life” crafting trends make perfect background settings for some of our favorite cozy mystery series. Imagine Miss Marple without her knitting…. Well, now that scrap booking and card making have hit the local craft stores (big time!!!), I guess that it is no wonder that we have cozy mystery series that feature those arts.

Elizabeth Bright (aka Tim Myers) writes the Card Making Mystery Series that features Jennifer Shane, owner of Custom Card Creations. As Tim Myers, the same author writes the Candle Making Series, the Lighthouse Inn Series, and the Soap Making Mystery Series.

Mollie Cox Bryan pens the Cumberland Creek Mystery Series, which has a stay-at-home scrap booking mom as its sleuth.

Laura Childs writes the Scrap booking Mystery Series that revolves around Carmela Bertrand. Childs also writes the Theodosia Browning Charleston Tea Room Mystery Series.

Christina Freeburn writes the Faith Hunter Scrap This Mystery Series, starring the owner of a scrapbooking shop…

Lucy Lawrence (aka Jenn McKinlay) writes the  Decoupage Mystery Series…

Joanna Campbell Slan pens the Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-n-Craft Mystery Series…

Terri Thayer writes the Stamping Sisters Mystery Series …

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Quilting Cozy Mysteries…

Quilting has become a very popular theme in cozy mysteries, and rightfully so! Many more people are now enjoying quilting as a favorite hobby, and even more are reading cozy mysteries!

Isabella Alan (aka Amanda Flower) writes the Amish Quilt Shop Mystery Series. Angela Braddock inherits the quilt shop and sleuths, as well.

Lizbie Brown writes the Elizabeth Blair Mystery Series, which is set in Bath, England… where Brown resides.

Vannetta Chapman writes the Shipshewana Mystery Series, starring the owner of a quilt shop, set in the Amish Indiana town of Shipshewana.

The Elm Creek Quilts Series is not a mystery series but it is very popular with quilters, as well as non-quilters!  This series is written by Jennifer Chiaverini. Chiaverini also has accompanying instructional books that feature the quilts in the novels.

Elizabeth Craig (aka Riley Adams & Elizabeth Spann Craig) writes the Southern Quilting Mystery Series, which is set in North Carolina.

Earlene Fowler writes the Benni Harper Mystery Series. Each of the novels is named after a different quilt pattern.

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Amish Matchmaker Mystery Series – The sleuth is a widowed quiltmaker who becomes a matchmaker in her hometown.

Sara Hoskinson Frommer writes the Joan Spencer Mystery Series. While the series is not a quilting mystery series, the second book in the series is called Buried in Quilts.

Sally Goldenbaum pens the Queen Bees Quilt Shop Mystery Series which features Selma Parker, owner of a fabric and quilt shop

Sally Goldenbaum writes the Queen Bees Quilt Mystery Series AND the Seaside Knitters Mystery Series which is set in a Massachusetts coastal town. 

Patience Griffin: writes the Kilts and Quilts Series which is set in Scotland. This series is Cozy but not mysteries.

Mary Marks writes the Martha Rose Quilting Mystery Series, which features a plus-sized quilter in California.

Clare O’Donohue writes the Someday Quilts Mystery Series. O’Donohue is an ex-journalist and writing teacher who has worked for the HGTV network on the “Simply Quilts” show. She mixes quilting with romance and mystery.

The Patchwork Mystery Series is a Guidepost mystery series which will have, as its sleuth, a woman who is good with the needle AND who is good at solving mysteries.

Emilie Richards writes the Ministry is Murder Mystery Series. She also writes a non-mystery series which is called the Shenandoah Valley Series. The novels in this quilting series are named after different quilting patterns, and they have accompanying books that Leisure Arts publishes which actually have the directions for the quilts featured in the Shenandoah Valley Series. I think that’s very clever…. and only wish that I quilted!

Arlene Sachitano writes the Harriet Truman Loose Threads Mystery Series. Harriet inherits a quilting shop…

Leann Sweeney writes the Cats in Trouble Mystery Series. Jillian Hart makes cat quilts that she sells online and at cat shows.

Terri Thayer writes the Quilting Mystery Series, which features a computer technician who inherits a quilt shop.

Vineyard Quilt Mystery Series: This no-profanity series is set in Missouri and is published by the Annie’s Crafts Company. Several authors write this series.

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Can You Believe It's Almost Thanksgiving?!?

Good grief….. It seems like it was just Halloween! While driving  to the grocery store today, I saw my first shopping center that was all decked out for Christmas! Can you believe that it isn’t even Thanksgiving, and already the shops are putting out wreaths? I guess that when the temperatures are as beautiful as we are experiencing here in San Antonio, the shop keepers need to do something to remind people to spend their money.

But, as usual, I digress……

I think that my psyche is conditioned to think of Thanksgiving as being three and a half weeks into November. With the first of November falling on a Thursday this year, my body’s routine has been messed up! Can you believe that we only have two weeks until Thanksgiving? I don’t think that I am the only one who hasn’t noticed that in exactly two weeks, some of us will be spending our entire day cooking, baking, peeling, mashing, carving, serving, and ultimately cleaning so that the other members of our family can enjoy a day of feasting and leisure.

Since Thanksgiving is falling so early in the month this year, this morning I noticed that the turkey isle in my grocery store wasn’t in total disarray…. There are still turkeys of every size available. Usually, two weeks before the big day, the turkeys have been picked over so much that you would have to either settle on a turkey so small that you would have to read its label to make sure it wasn’t a chicken, or a turkey so big that it wouldn’t fit in my normal-sized oven. Not so this year!

Anyway, to some of you out there who were as oblivious as I was…. Don’t be fooled by the decorative wreaths that you spot all over your towns/cities. Thanksgiving truly is around the corner…

Horse Theme Mysteries (Equestrian Mysteries)

Here is a list of mystery authors on the Cozy Mystery site who include the equestrian theme into their mysteries:

Carolyn Banks writes the She Rides, He Doesn’t Mystery series. The series features Robin Vaughn, an equestrienne.

Most of you know about Rita Mae Brown‘s Master of the Fox Hunt series.

Laura Crum writes the Gail McCarthy Mystery Series that features an equine veterinarian.

Did you also know that Monica Ferris writes a series as Mary Monica Pulver (the Peter Brichter Series) that has a horse breeder as one of its main characters?

Dick Francis: Not Cozy…  Francis was a jockey in Great Britain before suffering an injury that forced him to retire. He has a very successful career writing mysteries that take place in the world of horse racing.

Felix Francis: continued his father’s (Dick Francis) series

Leigh Hearon: Carson Stables Mystery Series – Annie Carson is a horse trainer on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington.

Gabriella Herkert writes the Animal Instinct Mystery Series, and her third book in that series features horses..

Sasscer Hill pens the Nikki Latrelle Racing Mystery Series.

Jody Jaffe writes a series about a journalist who specializes in equestrian articles:  #1. Horse of a Different Killer  #2. Chestnut Mare, Beware    #3. In Colt Blood

D.M. O’Byrne: Tonya Callahan Mystery Series

Michele Scott writes the Michaela Bancroft Horse  Lover’s Mystery Series as well as the Vivienne Taylor Horse Lover’s Mystery Series.

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