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Linda Hall, Gail Oust, Denise Tucker, & Eugenia Lovett West : Four Newest Mystery Book Authors Added to the Site

Danna - cozy mystery list — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:21:37 +0000

These are the newest four authors who you all recommended to be included on the Cozy Mystery site. For those of you who are wondering where your recommended authors are… I have more than fifty other authors on my list and will be posting them… eventually.

Asking for Help Coming Up with Possible Cozy Mystery Books with This Theme…

Danna - cozy mystery list — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:51:50 +0000

Ann wrote this comment, and I hope that some of you have suggestions for her:

"I've always enjoyed mysteries in which someone travels to England (or New England!), possibly to start life anew for whatever reason. (S)he settles in a cottage in a cozy village and somehow ends up solving a murder mystery. I'm not sure if that qualifies as a "theme" but I keep trying to find this type of mystery. Any recommendations? Thanks."

G. A. McKevett : Killer Calories (a Review)

Danna - cozy mystery list — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:07:46 +0000

Joanna wrote to me the other day with a really interesting link to her review of G. A. McKevett's Killer Calories cozy. Her review was such a delight for me to read, and it wasn't just because she uses my definition of a Cozy Mystery!

Updating My Private Mystery Book Authors' Lists…

Danna - cozy mystery list — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:56:24 +0000

Every so often, I go through all of my "private lists" of authors with their chronological lists of cozy mystery books, and try to make sense of the notes that I have added to the list. (The date of my last update was about two years ago.)

Jessica Beck, Lisa Bork, Christy Evans, & Kate Ellis … Four Newest Additions to Cozy Mystery Site…

Danna - cozy mystery list — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:17:15 +0000

Here are four new authors to the Cozy Mystery Site… These authors have come to me via your recommendations:

Jessica Beck: Donut Shop Mystery Series is set in North Carolina and features a sleuth who is the owner of Donut Hearts Coffee Shop… Donut recipes are included in the books…

The Good Wife… Again, Again, and Then Again…

Danna - cozy mystery list — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:54:08 +0000

Yesterday, Ray T posted this comment:

"What do you think about The Good Wife now that CBS has decided to show reruns of old episodes over and over? They ruined a good show."

Mystery Book Featuring Archivist in Colorado or New Mexico…

Danna - cozy mystery list — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:04:57 +0000

Here is the latest question I have been asked, but I'm not sure of the answer. At first I thought that perhaps Sara was describing Judith Van Gieson's Claire Reynier Mystery Series (which is on my list of pages to make…)

Miss Seeton Mysteries… Are There Any More on the Horizon?

Danna - cozy mystery list — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:52:09 +0000

I might have asked this question before, but I'm not sure. If I have, please bear with me. I know that I have had other Cozy Mystery Site readers ask this question, but I'm just not sure if it was a question posed in a "comment" or a question sent to my e-mail address. (I try to answer every question I get at my e-mail address… and hopefully, I do! I hope my "canned ham" hasn't accidentally deleted any of your letters.)

Knowing the Culprit Without Clues… Does This Bother You?

Danna - cozy mystery list — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:24:00 +0000

Yesterday, in a conversation I had with my daughter, I described a "problem" I just had with the mystery book I finished very recently. While I really appreciate the author's writing style, my "complaint" is that since I LOVE cozy mysteries, I put a lot of weight on the "mystery" part of the book. I have only read two of this author's mysteries. I don't know if the third will prove to be different, but in the first two books of her series, I knew exactly who the culprits were as soon as I was "introduced" to the characters.

Robert B. Parker :Jesse Stone Mystery Series, Spenser Mystery Series, & Sunny Randall Mystery Series…

Danna - cozy mystery list — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:49:29 +0000

Sandra wrote to me with this very sad news about Robert B. Parker:

"FYI: Robert B. Parker, one of my top 5 all time favorite authors passed away suddenly while sitting at his desk in Cambridge, Mass on Jan. 18th. He was 77 yrs old and it was reported this A.M. that the cause of death was heart attack.