Here are some fun Vermont facts:
The capital is Montpelier.
Largest city in Vermont is Burlington.
State motto is "Freedom and Unity."
State nickname is "Green Mountain State."
State flower is the Red Clover.
State bird is the Hermit Thrush.
State animal is the Morgan horse.
Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site who feature Vermont locations in their books:
Barbara Bretton: Chloe Hobb's Paranormal Mystery Series: Chloe owns the Sticks & Strings Knitting Shop and happens to be half human, half sorceress…
B. Comfort (aka Barbara Comfort): Tish McWhinny Mystery Series: Tish is a septuagenarian artist/sleuth…
Melissa Glazer (aka Tim Myers, Elizabeth Bright, & Chris Cavender): Clay & Crime Cozy Mystery Series: Carolyn Emerson owns the Fire at Will Pottery Shop…
Archer Mayor: Joe Gunther Mystery Series… This is a police procedural series…
Amy Patricia Meade: Pret' Near Perfect Mystery Series… Stella Thornton Buckley lives in a village in Vermont with her husband…
Allison Cesario Paton: Mrs. Bundle Mystery Series… Mrs. Bundle is a senior citizen sleuth …
Sarah Stewart Taylor: Sweeney St. George Mystery Series: Sweeney is a professor/historian/sleuth…
Nancy Means Wright: Ruth Willmarth Mystery Series: Ruth is a single mother/dairy farmer/sleuth…
Please feel free to comment if you see an author from the Cozy Mystery Site who belongs on this list, or if you have any corrections.
♦To access more Cozy Mysteries by Theme click on this link.♦
25 comments - click here to see the comments or to add yours
{ 25 comments… read them below or add one }
Allison Cesareo Paton’s Mrs. Bundle cozies take place in Vermont, too.
Thanks, Marianne, for telling us about Allison Cesario Paton!
Thanks for the list. I’m always looking for a new “cozy” read.
Ann
Cozy In Texas
You’re quite welcome, Ann!
It just so happens that my second book is out and it takes place in Vermont. The name of the book is “Dead at 30″ by Debbie Steever. You have reviewed my first book “Family Secrets or Lies.”
Please take a look at my second book it is a mystery.
Thanks,
Debbie Steever
Thanks, Debbie, for letting us know about your second book.
Actually, I don’t review books for the site. But I did add your second title on your page in my “authors to post” folder.
Thanks, again, for telling us about another mystery book that takes place in Vermont!
I wanted to invite you to read my mystery, Murderous Roots, set in Vermont. Retired doctor and amateur genealogist Anne McPhail visits Culvers Mills, a fictional small Vermont town looking for her roots. Murder, blackmail and genealogy mix and explode in danger for Anne before the murder and the genealogical mystery are solved.
Thanks, Virginia, for telling us about your mystery Murderous Roots!
Your site is great. However, I would really like a section such as this: If you like Rett MacPherson, you’ll also like…………
If you like Susan Wittig Albert, you’ll love………
See what I mean? If you have this and I’m not seeing it, please let me know!!!
Thanks…..from VT.
Vicki, I’m glad you’re enjoying the site.
The only similar author pages I have so far are:
Agatha Christie
Kate Collins
Janet Evanovich, Anne George, Dorothy Gilman, Carolyn Hart, & Rex Stout
What a great theme idea! I am going (right now) to work on one for Lilian Jackson Braun, and then I will do up some more.
Thanks!
Here are a couple more that should probably be on your list:
Don Bredes (perhaps not a cozy, but he writes good Vermont mysteries)
Nancy Means Wright (has a solid Vermont series featuring Ruth Willmarth who is trying to make a go of her Vermont farm)
Thanks, Toby, for telling us about Bredes and Wright!
My three Hector Bellevance mysteries, COLD COMFORT (2001), THE FIFTH SEASON (2005), and THE ERRAND BOY (2009), are not quite cozies, it’s true. They are works of literary suspense fiction with certain appealing cozy-ish elements. All are set in contemporary Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom and feature the region’s familiar geography and rural social character.
Thank you so much, Don, for telling us about your Hector Bellevance mysteries.
Hello all, Love this site and wanted to let you know that my books can be obtained—autographed!—online at http://www.mrsbundle.com or by contacting me for details directly at bundlepublishing@yahoo.com. Working on the fifth mystery and loving all the positive reader response from Vermonters, New Englanders, and all kindred spirits in the US.
Jeesum crowbars, is Mrs. Bundle growing!!!
Best to you all,
The author
Thanks for the information! I just added a new page on the site for you: Allison Cesario Paton. Mrs. Bundle looks like a lot of fun… only a “senior citizen” by the number of years to her life… not by her life itself. What a wonderful way to be!
Sarah Stewart Taylor’s books “Sweeney St. George” mystery series, are really set in Boston, Massachusetts. Her first book takes place in Vermont but the other three are set in Massachusetts (Newport, Rhode Island)
Thanks, Janet. She’s on the Massachusetts page… maybe I should take her off of the Vermont page?
As a Vermonter now living in Michigan, I was glad to see your list of mysteries set in that beautiful state. I have read Wright, Comfort and Mayor, but I did not know of the others. I think Archer Mayor writes a great police procedural mystery and his Vermont setting are true to my Vermont.
Pauline,
While I currently live in Texas, I always associate Cozy settings as being in the New England area.
I would like more copies of “a Vermont Mystery” by Thomas Reese. I heard they were available on Amazon. It is newly published and a great read. Anyone know anything?
Jeanne, here is the link to A Vermont Mystery by Thomas Reese & Gary Pederson. It looks like Amazon has copies now…
Hi Danna, I’m not sure if you want to add Amy Patricia Meade yet to this list. I am guessing she is going to continue her Pret Near Perfect Mystery series. “Well-Offed in Vermont” (just out) ended as if it would be a series; and there was a lot of character development. At least I hope so, it was a very fun book. I know you have her elsewhere on your site.
Thank you, Margaret, for bringing this to my attention. I actually put Well-Offed in Vermont on Amy Patricia Meade’s page as the fifth in her Marjorie McClelland Mystery Series. Good grief, to me! (I had it right on the November 2011 Mystery Book New Releases list, but totally blanked out!)
Thank you!
Margaret, I just fixed Amy Patricia Meade’s page and added her Pret’ Near Perfect Mystery Series to her page. Thanks, again!