This is a set of 6 large print cozy mystery/suspense books featuring hobbies by Mollie Cox Bryan, Vivien Chien, Parnell Hall, Hazel Holt, Ann B. Ross and Maggie Sefton. They were originally published from December 2008 to September 2018. Check fictiondb.com for more information. Five of the books are former library books with stamps, stickers, etc. The books are in good to very good condition and don't contain markings on content pages. They were kept in a smoke free home. See the photos.
“Mollie Cox Bryan writes cozy mysteries with edge and traditional mysteries with heart. She’s the author of several bestselling mystery series, also writing under the pen name Maggie Blackburn. She’s recently released a novella mystery series: The Victoria Town Mysteries. Her books have been selected as finalists for an Agatha Award and a Daphne du Maurier Award and as a Top 10 Beach Reads by Woman’s World. She has also been short-listed for the Virginia Library People’s Choice Award. She’s also penned a historical fiction: MEMORY OF LIGHT: AN AFTERMATH OF GETTYSBURG. She makes her home at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Shenandoah Valley, Va.”
“Vivien Chien is an American author that writes mystery-suspense novels. She is best known for her Noodle Shop Mystery series of cozy mystery books. Chien came to fame in 2018 when ‘Death by Dumpling’, her debut novel was published. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Growing up as a mixed-race girl in a mixed-race home, Chien’s experiences varied drastically from those of her friends and neighbors. She started writing stories at a very young age and actually attempted to write her first novel at the age of just 16.”
“Parnell Hall was an American mystery writer. He was born on October 31, 1944 and passed away on December 15, 2020. His works include the Puzzle Lady and the Stanley Hastings series, as well as the screenplay to the 1984 cult classic C.H.U.D.. He collaborated with Manny Nosowsky for crossword puzzles and with Will Shortz for sudoku puzzles incorporated in Puzzle Lady stories.”
“Hazel Holt was a British novelist. She studied at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham, England, and then Newnham College, Cambridge. She went on to work at the International African Institute in London, where she became acquainted with the novelist Barbara Pym, whose biography she later wrote. She also finished one of Pym's novels after Pym died. Holt wrote My Dear Charlotte, a story that uses the actual language of Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra to construct a Regency murder mystery.
Holt wrote her first novel in her sixties, and was a leading crime novelist. She is best known for her Sheila Malory series. She was also a regular contributor to The Stage for some years. She married Geoffrey Louis Holt in 1951; their son is novelist Tom Holt.”
“Ann B. Ross is the author of a series of New York Times bestsellers set in her home state of North Carolina that generally share a group of returning characters. Comic by genre, the series features a central character, "Miss Julia," whose name appears at the beginning of each title and from whose point of view the novels are written. She believes the universal truths are "that family and faith and doing what is right and proper make up the core of a healthy and happy life." However, "being well acquainted with the consequences of womanly submission," by book two of the series, Miss Julia also believes that "a woman ought to take up for herself, if you ask me."”
“Maggie Sefton, also known as Margaret Conlan, is an American bestselling author of cozy mystery and historical mystery novels. She is widely known for writing the New York Times bestselling Knitting Mysteries. She has also written the Molly Malone Suspense Mysteries. Sefton received her bachelor’s in English literature and journalism from George Washington University in Washington, DC.”
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A Crafty Christmas Mollie Cox Bryan October 2014
Dim Sum of All Fears Vivien Chien September 2018
A Puzzle to Be Named Later Parnell Hall January 2017
Mrs. Malory and a Time to Die Hazel Holt December 2008
Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble Ann B. Ross April 2013
Purl Up and Die Maggie Sefton June 2015