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Lynne







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Beth Groundwater, www.bethgroundwater.com
A REAL BASKET CASE, Five Star Publishing, March, 2007


And Stephanie Plum cracks me up every time.

Then, too, I have a tender spot for rookie officer Flora Vastine in my own Sticks Hetrick series.

Kinsey Millhone (Sue Grafton--author)
Agatha Raisin (M. C. Beaton--author)
Isabel Dalhousie (Alexander McCall Smith--author)
Regan Reilly (Carol Higgins Clark--author)
Claire Malloy (Joan Hess--author)
Henrie O (Carolyn Hart--author)
Lori Shepherd and Aunt Dimity (Nancy Atherton--author)
Annie Darling (Carolyn Hart--author)
Alvirah Meehan (Mary Higgins Clark--author)
Miss Juia (Ann B. Ross--author)
Aggie Sloan-Wilcox (Emilie Richards--author)
Jemima Shore (Antonia Fraser--author)
I used to love the V I Warshawski series by Sara Paretsky, but I lost interest during the dry spells when she would write non-series books.

Kate Martinelli
Mary Russell
V.I. Warshawski
Goldie Baer (I'm addicted to the recipes).
Irene Adler (Delightful series and I want her costumes)
Miss Marple (My first favorite)
Barbara Havers
Kinsey Milhone
Jenny Cain (Nancy Pickard)
Marie Lightfoot (Nancy Pickard)
NOTE: I am very fond of Mary Willis Walker's Molly Cates---does anyone know what happened to this writer? I have not seen a book by her in years, in this series or any other.

Kate Martinelli -author - Laurie King
Kate Shuglak - author -Dana Stabenow

Benni Harper (Earlene Fowler)
Miss Marple (of course)
Eve Dallas
Annie Darling
All time faves:
Charlotte Pitt (Anne Perry)
Vicki Bliss and Amelia Peabody (Elizabeth Peters)
Also, I love the girls of mystery: Nancy Drew, Nan and Flossie Bobbsey (from the Bobbsey twins) and Linda Craig (from Ann Sheldon)!
Throughout the years, I have loved so many female characters, but I'd say that Kinsey Millhone wins hands-down for consistency. Just finished "T is for Trespass" (almost as good as "G is for Gumshoe") and I'm trying to find a way to convince Sue Grafton to write a new series using numbers. Only 6 more Kinseys to go? Say it aint so!

Those of you who enjoy mystery novels set in England, 1880's will love this relatively new author and her leading lady!

Mary Russell
Maise Dobbs
Thursday Next (Jasper Fforde)
Any of the heroines of the "Black-____" series by Constance & Gwenyth Little. (Titles include The Black Gloves, The Black Thumb, Black-headed Pins, The Great Black Kanba.) These are stand-alone books written from 1938 to 1953 and recently brought back into print by the Rue Morgue Press. The heroines are the sort who speak their mind and may need help getting out of the scrapes they get themselves into, but they usually solve the mystery and get the guy in the end without compromising who they are. Lively, fun and humorous.
If you haven't run across the Rue Morgue Press and you like cosies or good English mysteries, they are doing a great job of finding the best out of print mysteries and bringing them back into print. Nice trade paper back editions with fun cover art. They sell not only their press releases but other of their favorite mysteries, which are sometimes hard to find in the big bookstores. Their monthly newsletter provides some great reviews.