February Publications

Nancy Atherton's latest paranormal cozy, Aunt Dimity: Snowbound, is the perfect tale for a cold winter's night. When series heroine Lori Shepherd gets stuck at Ladythorne Abbey after a blizzard, she must turn to ethereal Aunt Dimity for help in laying to rest the ghost of past sins that haunt the abbey's cloisters. (Viking, $22.95 226p ISBN 0-670-03278-6)

Middle-aged widow Ellie Quicke is shocked to learn of the death of her Aunt Drusilla, evidently electrocuted by faulty wiring, in Veronica Heley's Murder by Accident, the fourth in this engaging cozy series (Murder of Innocence, etc.). When Ellie's difficult daughter Diana declares herself Drusilla's heir, the trouble really begins. (Severn, $27.99 252p ISBN 0-7278-5994-3)

Something strange, including murder, takes Sasha Solomon, the former PR director of an alternative HMO in Albuquerque, to a southeastern New Mexico town in Pari Noskin Taichert's literate first novel, The Clovis Incident. This offbeat cozy's jacket art, depicting a flying saucer hovering near a cow, should lure ufologists. (Univ. of New Mexico, $24.95 223p ISBN 0-8263-3185-8)