{"id":2622,"date":"2009-09-11T05:54:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T10:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2009-09-11T05:54:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T10:54:05","slug":"when-is-a-cozy-not-cozy-but-still-a-cozy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/when-is-a-cozy-not-cozy-but-still-a-cozy\/","title":{"rendered":"When is a Cozy Not Cozy BUT Still a Cozy?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have written (more than a few times!) about the characteristics of Cozy<\/a> Mystery Books. Unfortunately, there are many exceptions<\/a> to the “rules”>>><\/p>\n

Usually a Cozy has, as its sleuth, a non-professional… an amateur, usually a woman. But more and more “professionals” are making their ways into the \u00a0Cozy Mystery books. Private investigators and police detectives are found in many cozy mystery series.<\/p>\n

A wonderful example of this “breaking the amateur sleuth” rule can be found by just looking at Agatha Christie’s work. While Miss Marple is a prime example of following all of the Cozy “requirements,” what about our favorite Belgian detective? He not only is a private investigator in England, but he was a police detective in his pre-Great Britain days. And, let’s not forget that Hercule Poirot is also >>> a he!<\/p>\n

Can you think of any other examples of “professional sleuths” finding themselves in Cozy Mystery Books?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have written (more than a few times!) about the characteristics of Cozy Mystery Books. Unfortunately, there are many exceptions to the “rules”>>> Usually a Cozy has, as its sleuth, a non-professional… an amateur, usually a woman. But more and more “professionals” are making their ways into the \u00a0Cozy Mystery books. Private investigators and police […]<\/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":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","7":"category-reading","8":"entry","9":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-Gi","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","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=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}