Showing posts with label Cozy Mystery Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cozy Mystery Series. Show all posts
Monday, February 1, 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Valerie Wilson Wesley's "A Glimmer of Death" is Out! Happy Release Day!
Listen. I stood at the stove about to reheat some lasagna (with cheap off-brand breadsticks from Wal-Mart and a "girl-bye" to them) when the UPS man delivered this baby to me. The book came on time. Delivered on its release date. I didn’t get played like I anticipated. So I was good to go! Y’all know the mailing services are off the chain these days. And my messy tail is contributing to it via Amazon purchases. But we’ll talk about that some other day.
THE FACTTTTT ISSSSSSS…
Valerie Wilson Wesley is one of my favorite black mystery writers, and she's back with a new series. Also, she's back with a fresh shift in gears toward undertaking the cozy mystery sub-genre. Wesley is best known for the famous Tamara Hayle lady private-eye detective series. She also has a catalog of black contemporary works out there (Playing my Mother's Blues being one). And Wesley is also known for two gothic romance novels (check the labels for “Savanna Welles”). My point is that Wesley has done about everything except cozy mysteries. Until today where we have A Glimmer of Death, book one in Wesley’s Odessa Jones series.
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| Get into Wesley's Tamara Hayle private-eye series, please |
Friday, January 1, 2021
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Monday, December 28, 2020
Monday, December 21, 2020
Monday, December 14, 2020
Bring in the Monica Ferris Needlecraft Series!
Man, was that fast! So, yeah. That book I was looking forward to diving into from Monica Ferris's Needlecraft cozy mystery series is here...
Friday, December 11, 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2020
UPDATED: 2020 Mystery Series Catching Up List
2020 Mystery Series Catching Up List
1st BOOK SHELF
*Updated notes as of December 2020
I’m making this list because I’m tired of myself starting a new series, while having a series I already need to read hanging around my shelves.
This list will be used to help me stay focused! Other genres in-between will come as well.
Mrs. Murphy Series by Rita Mae Brown
Book #13: Cat’s Eyewitness
Book #14: Sour Puss
Book #15: Puss N’ Choots
Book #16: The Perrfect Murder
(The rest of the series I’ll check out from the library)
*Got absolutely NOWHERE here. Very unfortunate, considering this was once a beloved cozy series of mine. I honestly think I just grew out of it.
John Le’ Carre Smiley Spy Series
Book #3 The Spy Who Came Out of the Cold
Book #4 The Looking Glass War
Stand-Alone: A Small Town in Germany (This’ll be my first read)
*Didn’t get anywhere with Le’Carre. I started to read his stand-alone, The Little Drummer Girl, back in August. Unfortunately, I got distracted with other reads. Specifically that of Laura Child’s Tea Shop Mystery series. In that, I took on books 4-8 and made progress there instead. I also made progress in Margaret Maron’s series. So there’s that!
Suzanne Arruda’s Cameron Del African Series
It is vital that I finish this series this year. I only have five books left to read. The last two I’ll have to order. Nevertheless, I must finish this series in 2020.
✅Book# 3: The Serpent’s Daughter
✅Book #4: The Leopard’s Prey
✅Book #5: Treasure of the Golden Cheetah
(I have to order the following two for my personal library. Will not do until I’m done with BOOK #5)
✅Book #6: The Crocodile’s Last Embrace
✅Book#7: Devil Dance
*OFFICIALLY DONE AS OF OCTOBER 2020. I buckled down and knocked this series out. I enjoyed finishing it the whole way, too. I will say the 7th and final book, Devil Dance, was self-published. Not that this was necessarily a factor, but the quality of the series dipped here. There was a five year break between books 6 and 7, and I suspect the author didn’t have the same editor as previous. Nevertheless, I completed the series. Going to miss Jade del Cameron and her adventures.
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
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