2023: A Year in Passing (Obits)

Bright Lights extinguished: 2023

The following is a list of several (but not all) of mystery writers and friends who passed away in 2023. Please let me know if there's anyone else who left us in 2023 that you would like to mention. Please leave a comment, and, if possible, add a link to the obituary.

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Ted Bell

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/books/ted-bell-dead.html

Win Blevins

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/07/win-blevins-rip.html

Jill Churchill

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/07/jill-churchill-janice-carol-young.html

Carol Higgins Clark

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/06/carol-higgins-clark-rip.html

K.C.Constantine

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/03/kc-constantine-rip.html

Tom Corcoran

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/tom-corcoran-obituary?id=41952464

Jerry Doolittle

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/22/jerry-doolittle-humor-carter-dies/

Tim Dorsey

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/11/tim-dorsey-rip.html

John Dunning

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/05/john-dunning-rip.html

Les Edgerton

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/09/les-edgerton-rip.html

Christopher Fowler

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/03/christopher-fowler-rip.html

James Hayman

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/09/james-hayman-rip.html

Patricia Holt

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/01/patricia-holt-rip.html

John Jakes

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/books/john-jakes-dead.html

Marv Lachman

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/10/marv-lachman-rip.html

Rita Lakin

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/03/rita-lakin-rip.html

Jim Napier

https://www.steveelkas.com/avisdeces/dr-jim-james-e-napier/

Anne Perry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/books/anne-perry-dead.html

Tom Savage

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/12/tom-savage-rip.html

Tom Schantz

https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/07/tom-schantz-rip.html

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I could not find obituaries for: 

Jan Christensen

Dawn Dowdle

Harriet Stay

Please send links to any obituary for the above.

2008 Writers: Bright Lights that have been Extinquished

The Good and the Bad. The good, of course, is that there were a phenomenal number of great books in 2008. The Bad is that we lost a lot of wonderful writers in the mystery community. B.V. Lawson of In Reference to Murder has a pretty complete list.

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
--Emily Dickinson

I note several friends and acquaintances in the group: Elaine Flinn, Tony Hillerman, Ed Hoch, Arthur Lyons, Meg O'Brien, JanWillem van de Wetering. May they all rest in peace.