I thought I’d share seven murder mystery authors I’ve discovered in the last year.

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Leslie Meier: Writes about the adventures of Lucy Stone, a newspaper reporter in Tinker’s Cover, Maine.

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Tamar Myers: Writes about the happenings of Magdalena Yoder, a Mennonite innkeeper in Hernia, Pennsylvania.

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G.A. McKevett: Writes about the delightful private investigator Savannah Reid in San Carmelita, California. (She’s also a Facebook friend and interacts with her fans.)

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Mary Daheim: Two series of note — one follows Judith Flynn (an innkeeper in Seattle) and the other follows Emma Lord (newspaper editor/owner in Alpine, Washington). The Judth Flynn ones (the Bed & Breakfast mysteries) are silly and the Emma Lord ones are a little more normal.

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Denise Swanson: Writes about school psychologist Skye Denison in Scumble River, Illinois.

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Livia J. Washburn: Writes the Fresh Baked mysteries about Phyllis Newsom and her housemates in Weatherford, Texas.

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Katherine Hall Page: Writes about rector’s wife/caterer Faith Fairchild in Aleford, Massachusetts.

(For more of this, head to Conversion Diary.)