Here are some Fun Texas Facts:
Texas is known as the "Lone Star State." Texas means friend in Hasinai. Austin is the capital, but Houston is the largest city State Motto: friendship. State Flower: Bluebonnet. State Animal: Armadillo
Authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery Site and who feature Texas locations in their books:
Jeff Abbott: Jordan Poteet Mystery Series AND Whit Mosley Mystery Series…
Susan Wittig Albert: China Bayles Herbal Mystery Series…
Carolyn Banks: She Rides, He Doesn't Mystery Series…
Nancy Bell: Biggie Weatherford Mystery Series AND Judge Jackson Crain Mystery Series…
Laura Bradley: Hair-Raising Mystery Series…
James Lee Burke: Billy Bob Holland Mystery Series…
Susan Rogers Cooper: E. J. Pugh Mystery Series AND Kimmey Kruse Mystery Series…
Bill Crider: Dan Rhodes Mystery Series, Sally Good Mystery Series, Carl Burns Mystery Series, AND Truman Smith Mystery Series…
Nancy Fairbanks (aka Nancy Herndon): Culinary Food Writer Mystery Series AND Elena Jarvis Mystery Series…
Louise Gaylord: Allie Armington Mystery Series…
Chloe Green: Dallas O’Connor Mystery Series…
Honor Hartman (aka Dean James & Jimmie Ruth Evans): Bridge Club Mystery Series…
L.C. Hayden: Harry Bronson Mystery Series…
Nancy Herndon (aka Nancy Fairbanks): Elena Jarvis Mystery Series AND Culinary Food Writer Mystery Series…
Sharon Kahn: Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife Mystery Series…
Lee Martin (aka Anne Wingate & Martha G. Webb): Deb Ralston Mystery Series AND Mark Shigata Mystery Series AND Smoky O'Donnell Mystery Series…
Susan McBride: Debutante Dropout Mystery Series AND Maggie Ryan Mystery Series…
D.R. Meredith: Murder by the Yard Mystery Series AND Sheriff Charles Matthews Mystery Series AND John Lloyd Branson Mystery Series…
Rick Riordan: Tres Navarre Mystery Series…
Aileen Schumacher: Tory Travers Mystery Series…
Barbara Burnett Smith: Purple Sage Mystery Series AND Kitzi Camden Beading Mystery Series…
Leann Sweeney: Yellow Rose Mystery Series…
Mary Willis Walker: Mollie Cates Mystery Series…
Wendy Lyn Watson: Mystery à la Mode Mystery Series…
Livia J. Washburn: Fresh Baked Mystery Series…
Martha G. Webb (aka Anne Wingate & Lee Martin): Smoky O'Donnell Mystery Series AND Mark Shigata Mystery Series AND Deb Ralston Mystery Series…
Anne Wingate (aka Lee Martin & Martha G. Webb): Mark Shigata Mystery Series AND Deb Ralston Mystery Series AND Smoky O'Donnell Mystery Series…
Please feel free to contact me if you see an author from the Cozy Mystery Site who belongs on this list, or if you have any comments.
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Great List!!! I Love Texas. Thanks. Don’t forget Bill Crider and his series. One features Sheriff Dan Rhodes.
Thank you for reminding me about Bill Crider…. I started working on the Texas list way before I added him to the site.
Thanks, again…
This site has been such a great source of info. Although I read all mysteries I lean more to a British cozy . I want to be transported from Michigan, to a small Cotswold village with thatched roofed cottages and a Miss Marple like lady solving the mysteries. Of course she needs to live in a cottage and a cat is preferable. I have read Ann Purser , M C Beaton and now finished all of Barbara Harwin. If anyone has any suggestions , I would love to hear them. Thank you so Much !
Hi Beach Mum,
Have you taken a look at the “If You’ve Run Out of Agatha Christie” post that I wrote? That might give you some ideas…
Beach Mum – I’m with you. I read the books, or watch such shows as Midsomers Murders and love the quaint cottages in the small rural towns and think it would be great to live there (not with the murders, of course).
Danna – what a comprehensive list. I have lived in Texas and will again someday (after my caregiver duties in Michigan come to an end). China Bayles is my very favorite, but with a list like this, looks like back to the library I go.
Thanks for putting this list together!
First I want to thank you for this site. I am one of the many avid readers who consume a book or two a day when home (more frequently than I like) and your site has been a great place to turn for book titles. I love these books from Texas, and I notice that books from the South (which may not include all of Texas, I’m not entirely clear on the concept!) seem to have a similar flavor and pride of place.
Do you already have a Southern list? I know it’s a state of mind! I’d love to find more books written from that perspective. They often write about small town values; respect, honoring parents, but they don’t take themselves too seriously. I’m thinking of Anne George and Patricia Sprinkle’s Southern series here, and some of the Texan authors exude that same charm. I’m rereading Anne George for the millionth time, but I’m looking for more like her!
(And thank you, I didn’t know about Elena Jarvis. I love the Nancy Fairbanks books. I always leave this site with at least one book to seek.)