Jane's Super Sleuth Challenge 2013

[Jane Reads]

I will read at least two sets of 13 Cozy Mysteries in 2013.

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#1: Heavenly Pleasures , finished 1/4/13. ★★★★

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#2, Tiger's Eye , finished 1/6/13. ★★★★

[Jean]

13 cozies in a whole year? Absolutely!

[Jean]

It just occurred to me that at the moment I'm rereading a brand new cozy. Just finished the first draft of Rooms To Die For, the 4th in my Murders by Design Mystery Series. Jane, does this one count?

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#3, The Curse of the Pharaohs , finished 1/26/13. ★★★

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#4, Scrapbook of Secrets , finished 2/4/13. ★★★★

Review here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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#5, Phone Kitten , finished 2/8/13. ★★★★

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#6, Devil's Food , finished 2/9/13. ★★★★

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#7, Monkey See, Monkey Die , finished 2/24/13. ★★★

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#8, Murder Most Maine , finished 2/27/13. ★★★

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#9, We'll Always Have Parrots , finished 3/1/13. ★★★★

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#10, Berried to the Hilt , finished 3/3/13. ★★★★

[jaxnsmom]

Wow Jane - you'll be finished soon. I saw Barb's doing it three times, for 39 books. How many are you going for? ☺

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#11, Family Jewels , finished 3/10/13. ★★★★

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#12, Owls Well That Ends Well , finished 3/11/13. ★★★★★

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#13, No Nest for the Wicket , finished 3/14/13. ★★★★★

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First set of 13 mysteries complete, 3/14/13.

Second set begun.

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2nd set

#1, The Penguin Who Knew Too Much , finished 3/16/13. ★★★★★

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2nd set

#2, Dog on It , finished 3/25/13. ★★★★

[jaxnsmom]

I LOVE Chet and Bernie! I've only read the first Meg Lanslow book, and would like to read more of them. I think I need to devvote a few weeks or even a month to reading cozies, I'm so far behind.

[Jane Reads]

That was my first Chet and Bernie, and now I LOVE them too!


I am now reading A Cat Was Involved: A Chet and Bernie Mystery eShort Story . It's about how Chet flunks out of K-9 school and ends up with Bernie and, yes, apparently, a cat is involved - lol.

[Shirley]

Could you tell me if

Open Season



is considered to be a cozy?

[Jane Reads]

Shirley wrote: "Could you tell me if Open Season is considered to be a cozy?"

Probably not. Nobody has shelved it as a cozy, and it's been been shelved 37 times as thriller or suspense.

[Shirley]

Thanks Jane

[jaxnsmom]

Jane in SC wrote: "That was my first Chet and Bernie, and now I LOVE them too!


I am now reading A Cat Was Involved: A Chet and Bernie Mystery eShort Story[bookcover:A Cat Was Involved: A Chet and Bernie Mystery e..."

Well now I'm depressed! I don't have an e-reader, and I just checked my libraries download service and no luck there :( Oh well, I've sort of made the story up myself :D

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jaxnsmom wrote: "Well now I'm depressed! I don't have an e-reader, and I just checked my libraries download service and no luck there :( Oh well, I've sort of made the story up myself :D "

Before I got my Kindle, I used one of the free Kindle Reading Apps, Kindle For PC. I also have Calibre, a free eReader.

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2nd Set

#3, Cockatiels at Seven , finished 4/1/13. ★★★★★

[jaxnsmom]

Jane in SC wrote: "Before I got my Kindle, I used one of the free Kindle Reading Apps, Kindle For PC. I also have Calibre, a free eReader."

I'll have to look into that.

[Jane Reads]

With Calibre, I can convert iBooks to mobi (or whatever Kindle uses).

From the User Manual:
"calibre is an ebook library manager. It can view, convert and catalog ebooks in most of the major ebook formats. It can also talk to many ebook reader devices. It can go out to the Internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can download newspapers and convert them into ebooks for convenient reading. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and OS X."

http://calibre-ebook.com/download_win...

[jaxnsmom]

Thanks for the link!

[Jane Reads]

2nd Set
#4, Six Geese A-Slaying , finished 4/6/13. ★★★★★

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2nd Set
#5, Trick Or Treat , finished 4/10/13. ★★★★

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2nd Set
#6, Swan for the Money , finished 4/12/13. ★★★★★

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jaxnsmom wrote: "Thanks for the link!"


I got this message today from Chet The Dog on Facebook:

Did we mention there's going to be another e-story this summer - like A Cat Was Involved, but different? It starts like this: "Old Mr. Parsons knocked on our door." Maybe you know what it's about already.

[jaxnsmom]

That's great! Mr. Parsons, hmmm...is he the next door neighbor, Oscar's owner?

[Jane Reads]

jaxnsmom wrote: "That's great! Mr. Parsons, hmmm...is he the next door neighbor, Oscar's owner?"

It must be, but I can't remember for sure. That was a long time ago when I read Book 1 and the short story, way back in March. ;)

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2nd Set
#7, Catnip , finished 4/19/13. ★★★★

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2nd Set
#8, Dying to Get Published , finished 4/29/13 ★★★★

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2nd Set
#9, The Whiskey Tide , finished 5/4/13. ★★★★★

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2nd Set
#10, After All These Years , finished 6/9/13. ★★★★★

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2nd Set
#11, Little Black Book of Murder: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery , read 8/23/13. ★★★★★

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2nd Set
#12, Strangled by Silk: A Poppy Cove Mystery , finished 10/2/13. ★★★★★

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2nd Set - Completed
#13, Portrait of a Dead Guy , finished 11/16/13. ★★★★★

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3rd Set
#1, Still Life in Brunswick Stew , finished 11/17/13. ★★★★★

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3rd Set
#2, Front Page Fatality , finished 12/5/13. ★★★★★

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3rd Set
#3, Buried Leads , finished 12/8/13. ★★★★★

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3rd Set
#4, Diners, Dives & Dead Ends , finished 12/10/13. ★★★★★

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3rd Set
#5, Last Diner Standing , finished 12/11/13. ★★★★★

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3rd Set
#6, Diner Impossible , finished 12/13/13. ★★★★★