Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV
This is an addition to my previous post about the books that are going to be (or have already been) released this month. Here is the link to the previous part of this list…
Alina Adams….. Skate Crime
Jill Churchill….. The Accidental Florist
Philip R. Craig & William G. Tapply….. Third Strike
Michael McGarrity….. Death Song
Also… I haven’t read this Christmas novel, but I found it and thought I would post it:
Jennifer Colt….. The Con Artist of Catalina Island: A McAfee Twins Christmas Novel
For those of you cozy mystery readers who enjoy “money matters”… the following three authors should be of interest to you. These mystery authors have chosen to give their main characters professions that you wouldn’t ordinarily associate with a cozy mystery sleuth…
Elizabeth Chamberlin has been both a teacher and an accountant, and now writes the Jane Mayhew Mystery Series, which happens to feature a retired accountant.
Connie Feddersen writes the Amanda Hazard Mystery Series which is set in Oklahoma and features a CPA/Sleuth.
Diane Kelly writes the Tara Holloway Death and Taxes Mystery Series, which is set in Texas, and features an IRS criminal investigation agent.
Connie Shelton writes the Charlie Parker Mystery Series which is based in New Mexico, and features an accountant.
Patricia Smiley‘s Tucker Sinclair Mystery Series features a financial management/advisor.
Jennifer Sturman‘s Rachel Benjamin’s Mystery Series has an investment banker as her sleuth.
Maggie Toussaint writes the Cleopatra Jones Mystery Series which features a golfing-accountant-sleuth and her side-kick, Madonna (a rather huge St. Bernard)…
It’s time for us (the cozy mystery readers) to get rid of our notions of knitting needles, mustache combs, and walking canes in lieu of calculators, pie charts, and index graphics!
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Have you been to the post office recently? I really planned and organized this year so that all of the packages I had to send out of town were actually sent before Thanksgiving. However, one thing I didn’t plan for was running out of stamps. I was the only person in the post office line who didn’t have any packages in my arms…. I felt somewhat out of place there. And, I also felt like an idiot for being able to get the obvious post office tasks done early… just to be standing in a long queue in order to buy stamps.
I do most (if not all!) of my holiday shopping online. Of course, that means that I pay for each item’s postage two different times, but I prefer getting the items so that I can wrap them, and then repack them. The online shopping is so convenient that I feel like I should do something personal… cutting the glitzy paper and adding the bright bow makes me feel like I have selected the gift personally… There’s something about actually having the item in my hands.
To get back to the point I was going to make at the beginning of this blog…. If you did your planning and have already sent out the packages you have to send out…. I hope you don’t run out of stamps! Your feeling of "Wow! I beat the mad rush!" will soon be a thing of the past…
(Of course, you would think that someone who admits to doing almost 100% of her holiday shopping online should be able to do something as easy as ordering stamps online, also!)
Good grief! Where has the time flown?!? I have been very busy these past few days. I am guessing that most of you have been busy, too…. Rushing around getting things accomplished before December arrives.
My husband and I are so lucky that both of our grown children can be with us during the holidays. We had a terrific Thanksgiving visit…. And, I was actually able to see my college roommate during this past week! She was visiting her niece in Austin, so I drove up and we had lunch. You know the sign of a great friend… someone you haven’t seen in over twenty years, yet you are able to resume your conversations as if you had seen each other a day ago. (Of course, now that we have e-mail and cell phone capabilities, we actually are connected, even though physically we are distant… me in San Antonio and she in Iowa.) It was wonderful to see her again… Next time she is in Texas, it will be for a vacation… not because of a family emergency. She has an open invitation to stay with us…
I have been busy getting my Christmas preparations started. I have been listening to seasonal music, trying to get myself motivated. And, I am just about finished with M. C. Beaton’s Kissing Christmas Goodbye. I have really been enjoying this book… it reminds me of Beaton’s earlier Agatha Raisin books.
Well, I just wanted to write a quick blog… It has been a while since I last blogged… and I don’t know where the time went!
