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Barbara, a coffeehouse sounds like an interesting setting as so many people come through during the day. Gives the writer opportunity to create quite a cast of characters, especially with NYC as a backdrop.

Also, glad you started with Thyme of Death as that is the first in the series. Hope you enjoy it. I don't know how much Ruby is mentioned in that first book, but she is quite a character. I wrote a short story one time using Ruby as inspiration. It was fun!

Please let me know what you think of the book. I'm just finishing my first Aurora Teagarden, but inadvertently started with the third book. Unfortunately, the author refers back to the other two quite often. Oops.

Edit - corrected spelling error.

I read one of the coffeehouse mysteries and liked it a lot. I also like the cookie mysteries by Joanne Fluke. Hannah Swenson is an engaging character and reading one of those mysteries is like taking a trip to Lake Eden to visit all the characters.

I just picked up two Joanne Fluke mysteries at the library, so she is next on my list. Sometimes authors use a real location as a backdrop, but other times they make up their own. They can make them sound so real, the reader wants to visit. That's a sign of a good author, don't you think?

I think so too. Actually, the Joanne Fluke mysteries are more about Lake Eden and its residents than mystery really. There is a mystery but it's always someone very unlikable who gets killed-lol.

She puts delicious recipes in her books too.

Oh, I forgot Gordianus, The Finder, in the Steven Saylor series about a detective in ancient Rome. He's my favorite, too. Can I have 3 favorites?!

You can have as many favorites as you like - I certainly do. I know favorite means one, but with so many great mystery characters it is difficult to choose just one. So, we'll bend the rules a little bit.

Good deal.

Anyone else have a favorite mystery character? One of my favorites early on was Travis McGee.

Anyone have a favorite out of the 1940's or 1950's? Any Mickey Spillane fans? Mike Hammer?

I've read a few of Fluke's and the rest are on my To Read List. You can imagine my To Read list is pages and pages and pages long! I may never read all those books.

I just finished Key Lime Pie by Joanne Fluke, and starting Carrot Cake Murders today.

Unfortunately, I am reading four different mysteries at once, two for review purposes. Yeesh! Sometimes it takes me a moment to figure out which story I am reading.

My list, also, is getting longer as I discover new-to-me authors.