The Mystery of the Mystery Novel Series

Please forgive the rambling nature of this post, as I only came up with a good idea a few minutes before I was supposed to write this thing.  Some weeks it is tough coming up with a topic.  While getting as much possible done before writing this blog post, I was going over one of the catalogs my store, Booknotes, has access to.  It was about some of the books scheduled to come out in February.  While I was going over the mass market paperbacks, I noticed that one of the mysteries had an unusual premise.  This series, whose second title comes out in February. is about a rabbit rescue worker, and her pet rabbit who she has a telepathic bond with.  Considering that I have a "thing" with rabbits, I couldn't believe I missed the first book of this series.  On the other hand, a rabbit rescue worker and her telepathic pet?!  Even for unusual premises, this one is out there.  To be honest, I don't read too many mysteries.  The ones I do read are prone to have a strange twist to them, frequently a subtle supernatural one.  I guess you could call them cozies, you know, nothing too violent but with enough romantic twists that would make them perfect for Hallmark movies, if not for that 'supernatural' thing.  [As an aside, while I do watch many of these movies, whoever heard of a murder mystery with a G rating?  The two things don't really mesh that well, most of the time.  Still, Hallmark has dozens of them.]. Many such mysteries have gimmicks that can be hard to carry deep into a series. Just look at all of the Hannah Swensen books.  There will twenty-five different dessert themed entries come February.  Soon, Joanne Fluke will have to delve into the mysteries of more obscure pastries to come up with a new title.  And the field for coming up with new series is getting tough.  The imprint behind two of my series, Midnight Ink, was folded last year by its parent company, Llewellyn, who wanted to focus more on its New Age and Occult nonfiction titles.  This news came up so suddenly on me, that it had already closed by the time I found out about it while trying to find out when the next books in my series would come out.  Furthermore, in case anyone has missed a major recurring theme in this blog's posts, I have aspirations in becoming professional writer.  However, I don't really want to become a mystery writer.  Yes, I do have a few ideas that could work as mysteries.  Yes, parts of my online work, Dada, over on my literary blog, The T. H. Weingarten Miscellany, could be though of as mystery, even though not a single murder occurs, fortunately.  Trust me, one could have.  Still, I don't think a rabbit lover like myself could have come up with something as weird as a telepathic bunny.