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Just pre-ordered the new Rory Clements book, the third Tom Wilde book. Really looking forward to it
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Went to a new/used bookstore today and bought some paperbacks:
Just ordered
The French Powder Mystery by "Ellery Queen"
(Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
First published back in 1930 / this version was published in 2015.
Received delivery today of:
A Right to Die by Rex Stout <"A Nero Wolfe Mystery">
(orig. published 1964; 1994 Bantam "Crime Line")
As a cozy and cat lover, I'm a big fan of The Cat in the Stacks series. I also wish I could find more of the Simon-Kirby-Jones stories (about a gay vampire) by the same author under his real name (I think), Dean James.
For dog lovers, Spencer Quinn writes the Chet and Bernie mysteries, narrated by Chet, a police-dog-training-school flunkout.
Other favorites: Donna Andrews' Meg Langslow stories; Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity tales; and several series by Susan Wittig Albert.
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Beverly Allen, the Bee--with honey and stinger.
"If humans have souls, then clones will have them, too."--Arthur Caplan
My Mom is currently reading the "Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series" by Ali Brandon.
I think she's up to the fifth one now:
When she's done with the 6th (and last) one, I'm going to try and start her on the "Bookmobile Cat Mystery Series" by Laurie Cass (as long as the library can find a copy of it).
As to that other part of your post,You appear to be correct.http://catinthestacks.com/bio.htmlMiranda James is the pseudonym of Dean James, a seventh-generation Mississippian recently returned home after over thirty years in Texas. A mystery fan since the age of ten, he wrote his first novel at the ripe old age of twelve. The only copy of The Mystery of the Willow Key vanished years ago, but since it was highly derivative of the Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden mystery series, that’s probably a good thing . . .
The article also mentions he has written under other names as well.. . . His first novel, Cruel as the Grave (Silver Dagger Mysteries) was published in 2000. Since then he has published eighteen more novels, writing under his own name and the pseudonyms Jimmie Ruth Evans and Honor Hartman . . .
I went to a book signing tonight for author Joanna Schaffhausen and picked up her two thrillers The Vanishing Season and No Mercy.
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Beth Hart - Fire On The Floor CD Review
Beth Hart February 23rd, 2017 Boston, MA Concert Review
"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
I've seen that an eleventh one in that series is suppose to be out in July of this year: The Pawful Truth.
I've taken a slight break in reading books recently (focusing instead in getting caught up on some long-running comic book series I had not bought when originally released), but I've been borrowing plenty of Cozy Mystery series from area libraries for my Mom.
Among her most recent reads,
* the "Ashton Corners Book Club" series by Ericka Chase
* the "Blue Ridge Library Mystery" series by Victoria Gilbert
* and she's currently working her way through the "Maine Clambake Mystery" series by Barbara Ross
She's now reading Fogged Inn, the 4th book in the series.
Beth Hart - Fire On The Floor CD Review
Beth Hart February 23rd, 2017 Boston, MA Concert Review
"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
The curious thing about this series is that, according to goodreads.com, there are two short stories (novellas?) for the "Maine Clambake Mystery" series are in books written by Leslie Meier as part of Meier's "Lucy Stone" mystery series.
Lee Hollis' "The Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery Series" is also represented in those books.
(So those two series may be next in what I'm looking for my Mom, depending on what she thinks of the short stories.)
Those short story things are part and parcel of the mystery world it would seem.
Beth Hart - Fire On The Floor CD Review
Beth Hart February 23rd, 2017 Boston, MA Concert Review
"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
I've been getting various mystery series from the libraries for my Mom for about a year now, and this was the first time I've been aware of them like this. (I have found some that are short stories all by the same author in a book, but this is the first time I've found more than one story credited to different author names in a book where the book is listed under a specific author and not the name of an editor who collected those stories.)