American/Cozy Mysteries

Essays:
§ Cozies: An Especially American Art Form
§ When is a Cozy not a Cozy?
Kenneth Abel
§ Cold Steel Rain 		Alina Adams
§ Murder on Ice 		Donna Andrews
§ The Penguin Who Knew Too Much 		Nevada Barr
§ High Country
Larry Beinhart
§ The Librarian 		Claudia Bishop and Don Bruns (editors)
§ A Merry Band of Murderers 		Meredith Blevins
§ The Hummingbird Wizard 		Lawrence Block
§ The Burglar in the Rye
Jan Brogan
§ A Confidential Source 		Judy Clemens
§ The Day Will Come 		Joan Coggin
§ Who Killed the Curate? 		Jeffrey Cohen
§ As Dog is My Witness
§ Some Like it Hot-Buttered
Thomas Cook
§ Into the Web 		Gordon Cotler
§ Artist’s Proof 		Casey Daniels
§ Don of the Dead
Diane Mott Davidson
§ Dark Tort
§ Double Shot
Aaron Elkins
§ Good Blood 		Sharon Fiffer
§ Buried Stuff 		Kate Flora
§ Stalking Death 		Christine Goff
§ A Rant of Ravens
Denise Hamilton
§ Last Lullaby
§ Savage Garden
§ Sugar Skull 		David Handler
§ The Cold Blue Blood 		Charlaine Harris
§ Grave Sight
§ Grave Surprise
§ Shakespeare’s Counselor 		Rosemary Harris
§ Pushing Up Daisies
Ellen Hart
§ An Intimate Ghost
§ The Iron Girl
§ Night Vision 		Libby Fischer Hellmann
§ An Image of Death
§ A Picture of Guilt
§ A Shot to Die For 		Martha C. Lawrence
§ Ashes of Aries 		Marc Lecard
§ Vinnie's Head
Laura Lippman
§ To the Power of Three 		Mary Logue
§ Maiden Rock 		Margaret Maron
§ Last Lessons of Summer 		Sujata Massey
§ Girl in a Box
Alexander McCall-Smith
§ The #1 Ladies Detective Agency 		Deborah Morgan
§ The Marriage Casket
§ The Weedless Widow 		Marcia Muller
§ Cyanide Wells 		Kem Nunn
§ Tijuana Straits
Nancy Pickard
§ The Virgin of Small Plains 		David Skibbins
§ Eight of Swords 		Jessica Speart
§ Blue Twilight 		Julia Spencer-Fleming
§ All Mortal Flesh
§ A Fountain Filled With Blood
§ I Shall Not Want
§ In the Bleak Midwinter
§ Out of the Deep I Cry
§ To Darkness and to Death
Denise Swanson
§ Murder of a Sleeping Beauty
§ Murder of a Barbie and Ken
§ Murder of a Snake in the Grass 		Sarah Stewart Taylor
§ Judgment of the Grave
§ Mansions of the Dead
§ O’ Artful Death
§ Still as Death 		Elaine Viets
§ Dying to Call You
§ Just Murdered
§ Murder with Reservations
§ Murder Unleashed
§ Shop Till You Drop


In the Bleak Midwinter, Julia Spencer-Fleming, St. Martin's, $6.99.

This is one great first novel, and a well deserved winner of St. Martin's annual Malice Domestic contest - the prize is publication of the author's manuscript. Featuring Episcopal Priest Claire Ferguson and Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne, they come at a case of an abandoned newborn from two different points of view, but it draws them together, exposing both their differences and their similarities. Spencer-Fleming writes like a dream, and this novel should whet your appetite for the spring release of her next novel, A Fountain Filled With Blood. This is my pick for best novel of the year.

If you enjoy Julia Spencer-Fleming, you may also enjoy Charlaine Harris (Lily Bard series), Lee Harris, and Michelle Blake.

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