![]() ![]() "Because she has a troubled relationship with her own daughter," Talley said, "she has an affinity for this girl and wants to know what happened to her."Īs a subcategory of the cozy subgenre, historical mysteries have exploded in popularity in recent years. Personal and family concerns get caught up in Hannah Ives' pursuit of cases, which in her upcoming book opens with Hannah discovering the bones of a long-missing teenage cheerleader in a well. Like Talley herself, the middle-aged amateur detective heroine of her books is a cancer survivor who loves sailboats and lives in Annapolis. ![]() Naval Academy, prefers the term "traditional novel" to "cozy," and notes that the two 19th Century inventors of the murder mystery - Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins - probably would have their works described as cozies today, though that's not necessarily the word that leaps to mind after reading "The Telltale Heart." It's a closed circle with a limited number of characters, and they tend not to range across the United States with a shotgun." ![]() "No third cousins from Australia who show up at the end of the book and just happen to have done it. "You have to play fair with the reader," she said. Another reason for Sam Spade to hop a freight.Īccording to Marcia Talley of Annapolis, Md., author of the forthcoming "Sing It To Her Bones," in cozies the characters must know one another and serial killers are verboten. ![]()
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