Dawn Dowdle

I read lots of mysteries each month. I especially prefer cozy mysteries. I also enjoy corresponding with and meeting authors. I am working at becoming a freelance book copy editor, too. I'm also working on writing a mystery novel. Dawn



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Deadly Laws
by Jim Michael Hansen
"You won't be able to put it down from page 1"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 21, 2007

Kayla Beck is a law student. Life is going along well until she receives a strange phone call where the voice is distorted. The caller tells her there's a woman being held in a box car, and she's the only one who can save her and only if Read more...


Web Of Evil
by J. A. Jance
"Divorce and Murder"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted January 20, 2008

Ali Reynolds is back and still writing her blog. She returns to LA for her divorce, but her soon to be ex doesn't show up for the finalization of their divorce. Soon he is found dead in Palm Springs. It wasn't an accident; he was murdered. Read more...


Relative Danger
by June Shaw
"Great new mystery series"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 21, 2007

Caelie Gunther arrives in town a few days before her granddaughter Kat's graduation only to find out Kat may not graduate at all. Caelie made a deathbed promise to Kat's mother that she would see Kat graduate, so she is determined to make Kat graduate. Kat explains that Read more...


Let There Be Suspects
by Emilie Richards
"Murder and Family Rivalry at Christmas"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 21, 2007

It's almost Christmas, and Aggie Sloan-Wilcox's mom, June, and sisters, Sid and Vel, arrive for a holiday family reunion. Only Aggie arrives with their former foster sister Ginger. Ginger and Sid get along like vinegar and water. Ginger is very manipulative and controlling while coming off as Read more...


Saddled with Trouble
by Michele Scott
"Great new horse lovers series"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 21, 2007

Michaela Bancroft is a horse trainer in California. Her husband is divorcing her for a younger woman with whom he had an affair. To top it all off, Michaela finds her Uncle Lou murdered when he didn't show up for their breakfast meeting. Who could have done Read more...


Perish By Pedicure
by Nancy J. Cohen
"Death at a salon conference"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 21, 2007

As if Marla Shore wasn't busy enough, now she's working for Luxor Products as a styling assistant at a local conference and her fiancé's parents of his dead wife are staying at her house to see whether she'll be a good step mom for Brianna. And her friend Georgia, Read more...


Death By Committee
by Carole Shmurak
"Committees can be murder"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 21, 2007

Professor Susan Lombardi vowed when she got tenure that she wouldn't be on any more committee at the college. Unfortunately she gets asked to be on the committee to decide tenure for Abby Gillette. Abby is a very controversial teacher. Susan's will be the deciding vote. A group Read more...


Herr Schnoodle & McBee
by P. K. Paranya
"A quirky PI, a homeless lady, and a dog"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 21, 2007

Alexander McBee has become a private investigator. He has trained by watching re-runs of Magnum P.I., Rockford Files, and other old detective series on the television. He comes upon a strange dog who becomes his partner. Herr Schnoodle is not the most attractive mix of schnauzer and Read more...


Wreath of Deception
by Mary Ellen Hughes
"A great new craft series"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted January 24, 2007

Jo McAllister is opening Jo's Craft Corner. She was recently widowed and her best friend Carrie has helped her getting the store ready to open. She is also helping her run the store. The grand opening goes great except for Cuddles the Clown. Every time Jo Read more...


The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library
by Alice Kimberly
"Is there a secret code hidden in the books?"
Posted February 21, 2007

Penelope Thornton-McClure and her aunt Sadie own the Buy The Book bookstore. They head out on a stormy night to look at some old books of Peter Chesley, an old friend of Sadie's. Turns out to be an extremely rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe's complete works. Read more...


Carbs And Cadavers
by J. B. Stanley
"Dieting and Murder"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 21, 2007

James Henry is a former English Lit professor. He has come back home to Quincy's Gap, Virginia, to take care of his father after his mother's death and his divorce. His father isn't a very nice person. James was lucky to get a job as the local Read more...


Cattery Row
by Clea Simon
"Can Theda survive the tough times and help her friends"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 21, 2007

Tough times have hit Theda Krakow, a freelance journalist. She had a blowup with Tim, an editor of The Boston Morning Mail, which means she isn't writing for them any more. Plus she's not sure about her relationship with Bill, a Boston homicide detective. Her friends are having their Read more...


The Oxygen Murder
by Camille Minichino
"Murder on Vacation"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 21, 2007

Gloria Lamerino, a retired physicist, and her fiancé, Homicide Detective Matt Gennaro, head to New York City for a vacation with their best friends Rose and Frank Galigani before Christmas. They plan to visit Matt's niece Lori Pizzano, a documentary filmmaker. Rose plans to shop and take in Read more...


Murder Passes The Buck
by Deb Baker
"Senior sleuth Gertie Johnson does things her way!"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 20, 2007

Gertie Johnson doesn't think her son Blaze, the sheriff of their backwoods community in the upper peninsula of Michigan, is fully investigating the death of her neighbor Chester Lampi. He was shot in his hunting blind on opening day of deer hunting season. Blaze does things by the Read more...


Dead Wrong
by J. A. Jance
"Another great installment in the Joanna Brady series!"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 20, 2007

I devoured this book in two days! I loved it! Joanna is 8 ˝ months pregnant and finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation that takes many twists and turns. Bradley Evans, an ex-con convicted for murdering his wife and baby, is found murdered. Even though Read more...


Murder Over Easy
by Jimmie Ruth Evans
"Great new series set in a trailer park"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted August 18, 2006

Melvin, Wanda Nell's boss at the Kountry Kitchen restaurant, has been arrested for murdering Fayetta, another waitress. They had been dating. He asks Wanda Nell to help clear him because she helped clear her son recently when he was charged with murdering his dad. As if Wanda Read more...


Raiders of the Lost Corset
by Ellen Byerrum
"Can Lacey find the missing corset?"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted August 18, 2006

Lacey Smithsonian, fashion reporter in D.C., is heading to France with her friend Magda, corset creator for the rich and famous (as well as some kinky people). The paper is paying for the trip as Lacey will supposedly be reporting on haute couture. But the real reason is Read more...


The Hayloft
by Alan Cook
"Who killed Gary?"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted February 20, 2007

Gary Blanchard has been kicked out of school after the first two weeks of his senior year. His parents send him to live with his aunt and uncle and attend their local high school. This is the school where his cousin Ralph mysteriously died six months before. Read more...


Murder by the Glass
by Michele Scott
"Can Nikki find the killer of the bride and clear her friend?"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted August 18, 2006

Nikki Sands is beginning to settle in to her new job at the Malveaux Estate in Napa Valley. Plus she has two men who appear to be interested in her, but she isn't sure. Her friend Isabel is catering a big wedding at a Sonoma mansion before she realized it Read more...


Murder By The Book
by D. R. Meredith
"Can they solve the old murder?"
Courtesy Mystery Lovers Corner
Posted October 1, 2006

After an old abandoned car surfaces due to a bad drought, Megan wants to find out who the Depression-era car belonged to. She tries to get her book group to assist her as they have in the past. But most of them decline. Then Megan stumbles over some dead Read more...



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