01-27-2011, 10:30 AM | #91 |
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Cozy mysteries are very much whodunits and whytheydidits
I think I'll check that one out! |
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01-27-2011, 08:01 PM | #93 |
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Sooooo, I just finished reading my first cozy mystery - Magnolias, Moonlight, and Murder by Sara Rosett. It started slow and I didn't get into it until about the mid-point. I was starting to think this genre wasn't for me ... then things started getting good.
Of course I realize this is just one book, so I likely would have read at least a couple more by other authors before dismissing it completely. As it turns out, I really enjoyed it and I'm trying to decide on a second one. |
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01-27-2011, 11:48 PM | #95 |
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There's a great series by Kerry Greenwood, the Phryne Fisher stories. They are set in Melbourne in the 1920's. Phryne is young, rich and beautiful and solves crimes with the help of her Chinese lover, companion Dot and two wharfies among others. They are great fun and for the Aussies out there Phryne is a dead ringer for Claudia from the ABC'x Collectors. I assume they would be available outside Oz but don't know if they are as ebooks.
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01-28-2011, 05:02 AM | #97 |
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Thanks for that Shel,
I thought it was a lot of karma, don't know what I've done to deserve it, it's gotta be a mistake. Just remembered that Kerry Greenwood does another series set in present day Melbourne. The heroine is a baker and lives in an amazing block of flats (apartments) inhabited by equally amazing people. She solves murders and mysteries with the help of her Israeli agent lover, her apprentice and some of the tenants of her building. Anne |
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01-29-2011, 03:31 PM | #99 |
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I've been reading the Virgin River books lately but I'm about to finish the book I'm on right now and buy the 4th DIY. (: Sooo excited.
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01-29-2011, 06:37 PM | #100 |
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02-02-2011, 05:33 PM | #102 |
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I just finished reading Mary Jane Maffini's Organise Your Corpses. It's definitely cozy material -- giddily upbeat littered with wiseacres characters so shall they make half-full wading pool look terrifying. An easy breezy read with a cute premise: the single female 30s-something amateur detective is an "organiser" who stumbles across dead bodies in a small town.
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02-02-2011, 05:37 PM | #103 |
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Just started the first book in the Coffeehouse Mysteries series by Coyle. I have maybe just a little trouble with the constant information on coffee, but maybe that's because I'm not a coffee drinker. (; But I do think it's cute so far.
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02-02-2011, 07:19 PM | #104 |
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I tended to skim over those parts.
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02-02-2011, 07:20 PM | #105 |
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Yes, the constant coffee data can reach over-dose levels, but the first book in the series which I read recently was engaging. There's also a little more depth (not much, but a little more) than the characters in the organiser series (based strictly on book one of each). Or, maybe I just warm to coffee more easily than cleaning up my desk ....
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