{"id":14572,"date":"2014-08-11T16:34:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T21:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=14572"},"modified":"2015-06-08T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:18:21","slug":"cozy-mysteries-for-rainy-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/14572","title":{"rendered":"Cozy Mysteries for Rainy Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is predicted to be hot and rainy with a chance of thunderstorms. Haven&#8217;t seen the rain yet, but I&#8217;m sure it is just around the corner. The forecasters are always right after all. \ud83d\ude09 When the weather turns toward rain and wind I automatically think of settling in on the sofa with a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Definition-of-a-Cozy-Mystery.html\" title=\"define cozy mystery\" target=\"_blank\">cozy mystery<\/a>.&#8221; Typically the protagonist of these books is a college educated amateur sleuth in a small town, a woman with exceptionally keen powers of observation and intuition as well has friends with convenient &#8220;in&#8221; knowledge. You don&#8217;t want to be her friend though, as people who know her tend to die under mysterious circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Our Browsing Books collection is a great place to go for recent cozies, although we also have some older ones in the Main Collection and still more are available through UW Request. Here are a few you might want to check out from our Browsing Books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Blackberry Pie Murder<\/strong> by Joanne Fluke (2014) &#8211; PS3556.L685 B53 2014<br \/>Hannah Swensen, owner of the Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minnesota accidentally hits a former football player with her car and investigates.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blood of an Englishman<\/strong> by M. C. Beaton (2014) &#8211; on order<br \/>Agatha Raisin, a former London advertising executive, snoops around the English Cotswolds in search of the killer of a thespian baker.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brew to Kill<\/strong> by Cleo Coyle (2012) &#8211; PS3603.O94 B74 2012<br \/>Clare Cosi, a manager of a Greenwich Village coffeehouse, ferrets out a hit-and-run driver who apparently used her delivery truck.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Whole Enchilada: A Novel of Suspense<\/strong> by Diane Mott Davidson (2014) &#8211; PS3554.A925 W46 2013<br \/>Goldy Schulz, the owner of Goldilocks Catering, snoops around Colorado in search of the poisoner of an old friend. Recipes included.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yarn Over Murder<\/strong> by Maggie Sefton (2013) &#8211; PS3619.E37 Y37 2014<br \/> Kelly Flynn and the House of Lambspun knitters help a fellow Coloradan knitter under suspicion for murder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about cozies and get some ideas for more to read, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/\" title=\"cozy-mystery\" target=\"_blank\">cozy-mystery website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the weather turns toward rain and wind I automatically think of settling in on the sofa with a &#8220;cozy mystery.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/14572\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,919],"tags":[69259,69260,167192],"class_list":["post-14572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-summer-reading","tag-cozies","tag-cozy-mysteries","tag-summer-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14572"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16225,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions\/16225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}