I received two e-mails from a site viewer (while I was on vacation) that have been on my mind. He visited my web site, and was able to find some new authors he might try reading, but he also sought some help in finding an author (or two) he had "misplaced." I feel really badly because I am not able to help him come up with the possible authors. He wasn’t able to provide me with enough clues to help narrow down the possibilities.
This started me thinking about an author I read several years ago, but who I didn’t annotate, and now can’t seem to remember… All I do know is that I’d really like to read her again. I just don’t remember enough of the the book to be able to give much of a description. (This is one of the reasons I started compiling my lists of authors!)
If you are reading this blog, and have a cozy mystery author whose name you can’t remember…. please feel free to send me a comment (which can be done by hitting the "Comment" button right under the faint gray line right under this particular blog.) I will try to address your author’s series’ description (that you give to me) in a future blog, and perhaps, we can come up with your "lost" author. Obviously, the more clues you provide, the better the chances of finding exactly who you are looking for… And, if I am not familiar with your author, hopefully, one of the blog’s readers might know the identity of your sought-after novelist.
Now that I have given this a lot of thought, I think that I will go try to remember some more of my particular book’s details so that I can blog them, and hopefully, with the site’s viewers’ help, find my author.
Dale says
I can’t tell you how excited I am to have found your site. It seems like something I’ve been looking for for a long time. I’m trying to find 2 authors (series). First, an interior decorator, male, straight, who gets a female cop (or P.I.) to help him find the "bad guy". The other one is a lady minister, widow I think, who solves mysteries with a local policeman, married, (named George??). They fall for each other, but do very little about it since he is married. Thank you. Dale
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Dale, I’m glad you found the site, also. I know what you mean about trying to find a series you liked in the past but didn’t annotate… or if you did, your threw the scrap piece of paper away with the series’ details. I am going to write a blog about your mystery series which deals with the interior decorator, and hopefully someone will come up with the specifics… nothing seems to ring a bell for me at this time…
As for the series about the lady minister… I am guessing that the series is by Julia Spencer-Fleming. Her Reverend Clare Fergusson series has the main character working very closely with police chief Russ Van Alstyne. Could this possibly be the series you are thinking about?
Another possibility would be Cristina Sumners’ series about an Episcopalian priest named Kathryn Koerney. The police chief in this series is named Tom Holder, and apparently there is a romantic tension between them. I don’t have the series listed on my pages… but Crooked Heart is the first in that particular series.
Hopefully, one of those two series is the one you are looking for…