Top Ten Tuesday - Top Ten New to Me Favorite Authors

Today's Top Ten Topic from The Broke and the Bookish is Top Ten New to Me Favorite Authors.  I love discovering a new author that I really love and this year has been a great one for that.  I am leaving a few off because several of them will be on my Best Books of 2015 list next week.

Sarah Addison Allen - Sarah Addison Allen was on my list of authors that I was going to read this year no matter what.  I was in a peach loving mood this summer so when I saw The Peach Keeper which actually had the word peach in the title I couldn't resist!  I was pretty much swept in from the beginning and thoroughly enjoyed this one!

Susan M. Boyer - I read Susan M. Boyer's Lowcountry Boneyard for a blog tour and fell in love with her matter of fact detective, Liz Talbot, her partner Nate, and the rest of her world.  If I had had any doubts the 2nd book I read - Lowcountry Bordello - finished those off.  Now I'm just waiting for the next one!

Julie Mulhern - I passed on the first book last year because the idea of a cozy mystery set in the 70s didn't grab me but after seeing great reviews of it I couldn't resist Guaranteed to Bleed.  I'm so glad I didn't!  It was such fun to read and I loved the main characters.  She's definitely on my auto-buy/request list.

Lauren Willig - I had seen Willig's name around for awhile and I know she has a very long running series that sounded interesting.  When I saw this book on NetGalley I couldn't resist.  The 1920s time period with a plot involving long held secrets AND an author I'd been were too much to resist.  I'm so glad I didn't as I absolutely loved The Other Daughter.  I was teetering on the edge of a reading slump when I picked this one up and it yanked me away from the edge.  I enjoyed the book, loved the main character, and drooled over the wardrobe.  I'm hoping Willig has another stand alone out soon.

Loretta Ross - When I saw Death and The Red Headed Woman on NetGalley I jumped at it.  I love a good cozy and this one featured an old house, an estate auction AND there was a reference to Dorothy Sayers.  I really really enjoyed it and Ross is definitely an author I'll be on the lookout for.  I've already got her 2nd book in this series that comes out in February and can't wait to read it!

These next authors aren't necessarily favorites but they are all new to me authors that I read this year that I enjoyed.  While they're not on my auto-buy list I am looking forward to reading more from them.

Iris Johansen - For as long as I can remember mysteries have been my primary genre.  How I managed to read so many mysteries over so many years and never read Iris Johansen is beyond me.  So when the chance came to review The Naked Eye which she had written with her son Roy Johansen I jumped at the chance.  I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to reading more of both the Kendra Michaels and the Eve Duncan series.

Shelley Freydont - I may have mentioned that I love a cozy mystery and the Celebration Bay series by Shelley Freydont had been tempting me for awhile.  The whole series is set around holiday celebrations which makes for fun holiday reading.  I read Trick or Deceit right around Halloween and had a good time with it.  She also has another series set in the Gilded Age that I really enjoyed.

Sophie Hannah - I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I'd never heard of Sophie Hannah until she wrote The Monogram Murders using Agatha Christie's Poirot character.  I enjoyed the read and like the mystery though I had some issues with her version of Poirot.  I'm really curious to see what she can do with her own style and her own characters.

Linda Lael Miller - Linda Lael Miller is a name I've seen since I first started reading romances but for some reason never picked up any of her books.  Her series set in a small town in Mustang Creek had caught my eye and so I snapped up this Christmas novella, Christmas in Mustang Creek.  And I liked it.  I didn't love it but I usually don't love novellas.  I'm looking forward to go back and trying a full length novel in the series.

Jill Mansell - Mansell is another author I'd been wanting to try and was pleased when I got my hands on The Unpredictable Consequences of Love.  It took me awhile to warm up to all the characters but I ended up absolutely loving it.  I have another book by her that I'm really looking forward to reading but for whatever reason haven't made time for it.  It seems like a good after Christmas read though so maybe in January?

So what New to You Authors did you discover in 2015?