
The "R" list of cozy mystery book authors also includes an author who writes true crime books. I have been a fan of
Ann Rule
for many years,
sometimes I simply crave a true crime book... and I don't think that anybody does true crime as consistently well as she does. Her books are gritty, though, so reader, beware!
R. T. Raichev
(aka Raiko Raichev) Raichev's dissertation was on English detectives
(between the wars.) The Country House Mystery series is set in English
country houses. The two amateur sleuths are a recently divorced grandmother
and a retired widower.
Kathy Reichs
Not Cozy... If you are a fan of the
Fox show "Bones," then you might be interested in knowing that it is based on
the life of Kathy Reichs. She is a forensic anthropologist who writes about a
forensic anthropologist.
Ruth Rendell aka
Barbara Vine...
The wonderful Inspector Wexford series (which is set in England) and many
(again!) wonderful stand-alone books...
Craig Rice aka Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig, Daphne Sanders, & Michael Venning...
She was the first author of mysteries to ever appear on Time Magazine's
cover, and at one time, it is said that she "was equal" to Agatha Christie,
but, sadly, she died at a young age in the 1950s.
Virginia Rich
Eugenia Potter series featuring a chef/rancher/widow...
Emilie Richards
Richards has her Master's in Family Counseling and is married to a minister,
thus her Ministry is Murder mystery series. She is also a quilter... which
explains her non-mystery Shenandoah Album series. Richards' quilting has
enabled her to actually write four Shenandoah Album series quilting
companion books for Leisure Arts! (If you are a crafter of any sort... you
know that Leisure Arts publishes the best of the best books!)
Phyllis Richman
Restaurant critic in Washington, D.C....
Cynthia Riggs
Martha's Vineyard series with an older sleuth...
Mary Roberts Rineheart
I remember these classic mystery novels from years ago.....
Rick Riordan
An ex-teacher who now writes books full time... the Tres Navarre series...
Ann Ripley A series
about a TV hostess who is also an organic gardener in Virginia.....
Fran Rizer
Rizer, a retired school teacher, writes the Callie Parrish Mystery Series.
This sleuth in this series has got to have the most original occupation I
have run across since starting this site: mortuary cosmetologist!
J. D. Robb aka
Nora Roberts... See Below...
David Roberts
A series about a 1930s London aristocrat & a journalist.....
Gillian Roberts
The very popular Amanda Pepper, high school teacher series.....
Lora Roberts
Roberts is a twenty year transplant in Palo Alto, California
and uses that city as the backdrop for her Liz Sullivan Mystery Series as
well as her Bridget Montrose Mystery Series. Her third mystery series is
quite different... Her Mystery with Sherlock Holmes Mystery Series takes
place in England and features Charlotte Dodson, a widowed housekeeper...
and, of course, Sherlock Holmes!
Natalie M. Roberts
Roberts writes the Jenny T. Partridge Dance Mystery Series.
As a mother of a daughter who only took one year of dance... when she was
four years old... and only because her best friend wanted to take the class,
I can say that I never experienced any dance mothers' anxieties, jealousies,
or backstabbing. But, let's face it, there are a lot of other places where
mothers congregate.... that lend towards the same type of mysterious
actions....
Nora Roberts
aka J. D. Robb... Her series is set in the
future, in New York, and features Eve Dallas, a lieutenant in the
Homicide Division...
Peter Robinson
With his PhD in English, it was just a matter of time before
Robinson would start writing the excellent police procedurals (Detective
Chief Inspector Allan Banks) that he is known for.....
Carolyn Rogers
Main character, Rachael Grant, is a
policewoman in San Antonio, Texas...
Kelley Roos Roos
is a pseudonym for husband and wife Audrey Kelley and William Roos. They
wrote a series about amateur sleuths who happened to be married to each
other... also.
Elliott Roosevelt The Eleanor Roosevelt series,
yes, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt...
Sara Rosett
As an Air Force wife herself, Rosett knows about the nomadic life of
military families. Her Mom Zone Mystery Series features an Air Force wife
who travels in the world of sleuthing...
Ann B. Ross Miss Julia series...
Miss Julia being a very opinionated, southern, older sleuth.....
Kate Ross Ross was a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law
School. She worked as a trial lawyer, and wrote the successful Julian
Kestrel series, set in London during the 1820s.
Jennifer Rowe
The Verity "Birdie" Birdwood series, set in Australia...
Betty Rowlands
Rowlands writes two mystery series: the Melissa Craig cozy series and the
Sukey Reynolds police procedural, which has a lighter feeling than a
traditional hard-boiled one. I loved her reasoning for starting her non-cozy
Sukey series... On her site she says that she foresaw a time when she might
have a hard time explaining why her amateur sleuth was always getting
involved with crimes. (That gets back to my feeling about seeing Jessica
Fletcher moving in next door to your house... You would probably want to get
out of town... fearing you might be the next body she stumbled upon!)
S. J. Rozan
Rozan, an ex-architect, writes the Bill Smith-Lydia Chin Mystery series...
Police Procedural...
Jane Rubino The Cat Austen series,
featuring Cat Austen, a reporter who happens to be a single mother......
Patrick Ruell
aka Reginald Hill.....
The very wonderful Dalziel & Pascoe series...
Ann Rule aka Andy Stack..... True Crime.....
I Love Her Books.... as do many other people!
Jean Ruryk Series set in Montreal,
featuring a furniture restorer/sleuth, who "happened into" robbing a bank......
Patricia H. Rushford
Rushford (a registered nurse with a Master's in counseling) writes
mysteries, romantic/suspense, and non-fiction. She also writes the Max & Me
Mysteries for 8-10 year olds and the Jennie McGrady Mysteries for young
teens.
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