{"id":24588,"date":"2015-08-27T18:01:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T23:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=24588"},"modified":"2023-11-14T22:20:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T04:20:28","slug":"scotland-cozy-mystery-books-with-a-scottish-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/scotland-cozy-mystery-books-with-a-scottish-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland: Cozy Mystery Books with a Scottish Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I have had several requests for a Scottish Cozy Mystery theme<\/strong>, and I have finally put it together.<\/p>\n

Cozy Mystery authors who feature Scotland or Scottish characteristics in their books:<\/strong><\/p>\n

COZY MYSTERIES WITH A SCOTTISH THEME:<\/h4>\n

Donald Bain<\/a>: The Highland Fling Murders<\/em><\/a><\/strong> – Jessica Fletcher and some of her Cabot Cove friends visit a Scottish castle.<\/p>\n

D.B. Barton<\/a>: Singing Sleuth Mystery Series<\/strong> – Alec DunBarton is a Scottish band auditor and cruise ship employee.<\/p>\n

M.C. Beaton<\/a><\/strong> (aka Marion Chesney): Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series<\/strong> – Hamish is the local constable in\u00a0Lochdubh, Scotland.<\/p>\n

Rhys Bowen<\/a>: Royal Spyness Mystery Series<\/strong> – Lady Georgiana, although not rich, is still the 34th in line to the British throne!<\/p>\n

C.S. Challinor<\/a>: Rex Graves Mystery Series<\/strong> – Rex Graves is a Scottish barrister.<\/p>\n

Ann Cleeves<\/a>: Shetland Island Quartet Mystery Series<\/strong> – reportedly not Cozy<\/p>\n

Kaitlyn Dunnett<\/strong><\/a> (aka Kathy Lynn Emerson): Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series<\/strong> –\u00a0Liss MacCrimmon is a Scottish troupe dancer, who lives in Maine.<\/p>\n

Amanda Flower<\/strong><\/a> (aka Isabella Alan): Magic Garden Mystery Series<\/strong> – Fiona is a florist who is from the USA.<\/p>\n

Patience Griffin<\/a><\/strong>: Kilts and Quilts\u00a0Series<\/strong> – Cozy but not mysteries<\/p>\n

Anna Lee Huber<\/a>: Lady Darby Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alanna Knight<\/a>: Rose McQuinn Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

Molly MacRae<\/a><\/strong>: The Highland Bookshop Mystery Series<\/strong> stars the co-owner of a book store in Scotland.<\/p>\n

Sharyn McCrumb: Elizabeth MacPherson Mystery Series<\/strong> – Elizabeth, a forensic anthropologist, loves her Scottish fianc\u00e9 and everything else that has to do with Scotland.<\/p>\n

Val McDermid<\/a>: Lindsay Gordon Mystery Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

Catriona McPherson<\/a>: Dandy Gilver Mystery Series<\/strong> –\u00a0\u00a0Dandy (short of Dandelion Dahlia) is a wealthy sleuth who lives in Scotland during the 1920s.<\/p>\n

Melinda Mullet<\/a>: Whisky Business Mystery Series<\/strong> – Abi Logan is a Scottish photojournalist.<\/p>\n

Hannah Reed<\/a><\/strong> (aka Deb Baker): Scottish Highlands Mystery Series<\/strong> –\u00a0Eden Elliott is a recently single author living in the Scottish Highlands.<\/p>\n

Paige Shelton<\/a>: Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series<\/strong> – Delaney Nichols has moved to Scotland from Kansas and works at a rare book\/manuscript shop in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Fran Stewart<\/a>: ScotShop Mystery Series<\/strong> -Peggy Winn owns the ScotShop, a store in Vermont that specializes in Scottish items. (Peggy has a 14th century Scottish specter who accompanies her.)<\/p>\n

Please leave a comment if you know of a Cozy Mystery author who I don’t have on the list, but who belongs on it >>> or if you have any comments.<\/p>\n

\u2666To access more Cozy Mysteries by Theme<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0click on this link.\u2666<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have had several requests for a Scottish Cozy Mystery theme, and I have finally put it together. Cozy Mystery authors who feature Scotland or Scottish characteristics in their books: COZY MYSTERIES WITH A SCOTTISH THEME: Donald Bain: The Highland Fling Murders – Jessica Fletcher and some of her Cabot Cove friends visit a Scottish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-books","8":"category-cozy-mystery-books-by-theme","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-6oA","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24588"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41681,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24588\/revisions\/41681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}