Reply #5: Can you tell me a bit more about these?

[shimmergal]

Especially the series by Sawyer. It sounds like it has two female co-sleuths; is that right?

Let's see: cozies have an amateur as a protagonist, don't they? Some series I like:

the Midnight Louie series by Carole Nelson Douglas (features a Las Vegas PR woman and her detective cat Midnight Louie). The Katherine Le Vendeur series by Sharan Newman (set in medieval France, also with a female sleuth who's an ex-novice who's left the convent and married). Both series have developed an interesting group of secondary characters in the course of the several books.

That's all for now. Can think of lots of other favorites, but technically they're not cozies 'cause the main character is a police officer or a PI.

Oh, and the yahoogroups list sounds interesting; I'll look it up (not that I need to be on any more lists :)