It's not enough that I think about my family history all the live long day. I am equally enamored of books with genealogical themes. For years I have been a fan of the wonderful Torie O'Shea mystery series by Rett MacPherson. After eleven installments, however, the cozy mystery series went into hiatus in 2008. Fortunately, MacPherson brought plucky historian Torie back last year in a new ebook. Hopefully, there will be more adventures to come.
Beyond that good news, this is a fabulous time for cozy mysteries. There is a series available for every interest imaginable ranging from sudoku puzzles to yoga. What is a cozy mystery exactly, you ask? Cozy mysteries, or cozies for short, "are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community."1 Oh, and cats, dogs and ghosts also figure prominently!
Hillary Kelly describes just how popular this form of the mystery genre has become in her article Crime-Solving Cats And Cozy Mysteries Are A Publishing Juggernaut. For years, however, no genealogy-themed cozy series has been able to match the staying power the Torie O'Shea mysteries enjoyed a decade ago. I have missed this entertaining form of shaking the ancestral leaves. That's why I was delighted to discover a new series by S.C. Perkins will launch next month beginning with Murder Once Removed. Featuring amateur detective/genealogist Lucy Lancaster, the first installment of the Ancestry Detective series will introduce readers to her love of tacos and life in Austin, Texas, when it is released on March 19, 2019. I, for one, can't wait!
Interested in more family history-related reads? Check out my Pinterest boards: Family History Memoirs and Genealogy Can Be Murder!References
- Wikipedia contributors, "Cozy mystery," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cozy_mystery&oldid=880224164 (accessed February 3, 2019).
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