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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Thanks Shel! I've wondered what you women have been talking about.
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No problem! Glad I could be of help.
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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
I might read the first Cleo Coyle, too, as it's so highly touted a series.
I had read Jill Churchill's "Jane Jeffry" series, but that went so far downhill as to be below sea level!
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My mother loved the Jane Jeffry series. I read all of them until about the last five or six I think - they're ok but not my favorite. I'm sorry to hear they're not good anymore.
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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
I loved the Cleo Coyle series, I think I've read them all now. I also recently read "Fundraising the Dead" by Sheila Connoly, which is the first in her museum mysteries. Kate Carlisle has a great series about a bookbinder, a nice combo of murder mystery and a little bit of chick lit.
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Loved, loved, loved the Fundraising series, especially the "backstory" of it that someone here at MR told me, about the tie in between Sheila Connolly doing research for that book and Robert Wittman's "Priceless" .
Also adore the Kate Carlisle series.
If anyone's interested, Cleo Coyle headlines a blog called Mystery Lover's Kitchen. It's Cleo, Julie Hyzy, Sheila Connolly, Krista Davis, Wendy Lyn Watson, Riley Adams, M.J. Maffini, and Avery Aames. Plus assorted guests.
I haven't seen Krista, Wendy, Riley, or M.J. mentioned here, so I'll give a heads up on their series.
Krista writes the Domestic Diva series. I've only read the first one, The Diva Runs Out of Thyme, but I enjoyed it. They're about two ladies who have opposite domestic philosophies. One is Martha Stewart Living and the other one is , well, me. LOL.
Wendy Lyn Watson has a special place in my heart, because she lives in Texas, and her series is set there, too. She writes a series about an ice cream shop owner in Dalliance, Texas. Highly enjoyable and lots of "Texas flavor".
Rylie Adams has a brand new series out - it features Memphis, Tennessee and BBQ. Now how can you go wrong with that combination? The first book's title is Delicious and Suspicious.
M.J. Maffini, in addition to being a sweetheart of a person (She's on my Facebook and I belong to a Yahoo group with her), writes three series. No, I don't know how she keeps up. The most "active" of the series is her Charlotte Adams series, featuring a professional organizer. But she also writes the Camilla MacPhee series, about a lawyer who specializes in victims of violent crimes, and the Fiona Silk series about "A failed romance writer with no sex life" who lives in Quebec, Canada.
OH, and I guess it might help if I gave y'all the link:
http://www.mysteryloverskitchen.com/