Barbara D'Amato    She has two series: Cat Marsala, an investigative reporter in Chicago, and a series featuring featuring Chicago police Suze Figueroa and Norm Bennis. She also writes "stand alone" mysteries.

Mary Daheim  Her "Alpine" series features a newspaper publisher (Emma Lord).  Daheim also has another series which is set in a bed and breakfast inn.

Elizabeth Daly   It is said that Agatha Christie was actually a fan of Elizabeth Daly's novels... It doesn't get much better than that!

Jeanne M. Dams    Dams has two series: one features a retired school teacher from the USA who goes to England to live, and the other revolves around a Swedish girl who works as a house maid in USA in the early 1900s.

Shirley Damsgaard   Damsgaard has held the position of Postmaster for over twenty years in her Iowa home town. She is now writing a series that takes place in Iowa, although, the two sleuths have more adventurous "jobs" as witches. I haven't read any of the books, but some of the site's viewers have enjoyed her immensely.

Casey Daniels   Daniels has a degree in English, has taught writing, has worked in the field of journalism and loves cemeteries. She writes the Pepper Martin Mystery Series which features a sleuth who conducts tours in cemeteries and gets help from a mob boss who has been dead for thirty years...

Claire Daniels     (aka Jaqueline Girdner).... Girdner has a well-established series about a sleuth who owns a gag-gift business and now, writing as Claire Daniels, she has a new series for her fans to look forward to...

Peggy Darty    Darty writes a cozy mystery series about a Floridian mystery writer.

Evelyn David     David is a pseudonym for two authors, one with a degree in Biology and the other with a Political Science degree. As David, they write the Sullivan Investigations Mystery Series which features an ex-policeman who sleuths with the help of his Irish Wolfhound (Whiskey) and a divorcée mortician...

Diane Mott Davidson   Her very popular series features Goldy Bear, a caterer in Colorado...

Eileen Davidson   Davidson is one of the leading actresses in the popular Young and the Restless soap opera. Davidson has now added writing to her list of accomplishments... She writes the (what else?!?) Soap Opera Mystery Series...

Krista Davis   Davis writes the Domestic Diva Mystery Series which centers around Sophie Winston, a... (What else?!) domestic diva! Since the series is a culinary mystery series, it includes recipes to follow along with the clues...

Lindsey Davis   Series about a first century detective in Rome... Falco and his trusty dog Nux...

Dianne Day   Her series is about a "very modern" turn-of-the-century woman in San Francisco who has a job as a typist, and of course, is also a sleuth...

Elizabeth Dearl   An ex-policewoman, Dearl pens the Taylor Madison Mystery Series, which is set in west Texas and features an author/sleuth.

Jeffery Deaver     Not Cozy! Police Procedural... and excellent! His first novel in the Lincoln Rhyme series was made into the movie The Bone Collector....

Dicey Deere   Deere writes a series about a 28 year old Boston translator who is transplanted to Ireland.

Nora DeLoach   This cozy has a mother and daughter duo solving mysteries...

Hannah Dennison   Dennison is starting (2008) a series that features a journalist in a small, quiet English town...

Jane Dentinger    If you wrote a cozy mystery series featuring an actress, where would you pick as the setting? Dentinger chose New York for her Jocelyn O'Roarke series...

Traci DePree   DePree is one of the authors who pens a Mystery and the Minister's Wife book. This series is unique in that each book is written by different authors (some of the authors pen more than one book in the series.) Other authors of the series include Diane Noble, Beth Pattillo, Carol Cox, & Eve Fisher. It is an inspirational mystery series...

Jo Dereske    Dereske has two series: the Miss Zukas (a librarian) series and the Ruby Crane (handwriting expert) series.

Colin Dexter   Police procedural, not cozy. I love these Inspector Morse books!

Denise Dietz      As a former Weight Watchers group leader, Dietz takes that knowledge and writes the Diet Club Mystery Series, which features a group leader of a weight loss program.

Joanne Dobson      Dobson, a professor at Fordham University, writes the Karen Pelletier Mystery Series, which features an English professor.

Stephen Dobyns   Not cozy... His main character, Charlie Bradshaw, is an ex-cop in New York, who is still solving crimes. Dobyns is both a novelist and a poet.

Hildegarde Dolson   After Richard Lockridge's first wife died, he married Dolson, who also wrote mystery novels.

R. B. Dominic    aka Emma Lathen….. I have not read any of R. B. Dominic’s books, but a Cozy Mystery website viewer suggested that her novels would make fine additions to this cozy site

Deborah Donnelly   Donnelly has a masters in library science... I believe that her Carnegie Kincaid is the only wedding-planner I know of who is also a sleuth, and who lives on a houseboat!

Tim Dorsey   While working on his bachelors of science he was the editor of the student paper. After graduating, he worked as a reporter and as an editor, before becoming a full-time novelist. His novels are all Florida-based.

James D. Doss  Doss (a retired "double E"---Electrical Engineer--- from Los Alamos National Laboratory) writes the Charlie Moon Mystery Series which features a Ute investigator who is also a Colorado rancher...

Carole Nelson Douglas   The Midnight Louie series is probably her more famous series, although her Irene Adler is no (sleuthing) slouch!

Daphne du Maurier    You probably know that several of her novels were made into films (Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, Jamaica Inn, etc.). But, did you know that Hitchcock's classic The Birds is based on one of du Maurier's short stories?

Margaret Dumas    Dumas writes the Charley & Jack Fairfax Mystery Series which has been compared to Nick & Nora Charles... by no less than the very popular cozy mystery author Donna Andrews!

Sarah Dunant    Dunant’s The Birth of Venus is currently being made into a movie. Her Hannah Wolfe series is set in London.

Sophie Dunbar   A Louisiana beauty shop is the setting for this (Clair Claiborne) cozy series

Susan Dunlap     Dunlap has three series to pick from, all of them set in California....

Carola Dunn   1920s Daisy Dalrymple is a journalist in England, not just reporting the deaths, but also sleuthing out the culprits!

Sharon Dunn    Dunn writes the Bargain Hunters Mystery Series, as well as the Ruby Taylor Mystery Series. Dunn describes herself as a "Christian author" who mixes the mystery genre with some of the humor you find in "Chick-Lit"...

Kaitlyn Dunnett   (aka Kathy Lynn Emerson) Dunnett writes the Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series which, although it involves a Scottish Troupe Dancer, is set in Maine. As Kathy Lynn Emerson, she has two series from which you can choose.... Lady Susanna Appleton is a 1600s herbalist, and Diana Spaulding is an1800s reporter, and descendant of Lady Appleton.

John Dunning  Dunning's main character is both a policeman and a rare book expert, living in the Mile High City...

Laura Durham    A Duke graduate with a degree in English, Durham became a wedding planner, which paved the way for her to write the Annabelle  Archer series..... which of course, has Annabelle cast as a wedding planner.

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