The following Mystery Books will be released in August 2011:
Jo Bannister: Death in High Places (This will be a Stand Alone…)
Stephanie Barron (aka Francine Mathews): Jane and the Canterbury Tales (This will be the 11th in the Jane Austen Mystery Series…)
Jessica Beck: Tragic Toppings (This will be the 5th in the Donut Shop Mystery Series…)
Jacklyn Brady (aka Sherry Lewis): A Sheetcake Named Desire (This will be the 1st in the NEW Piece of Cake Mystery Series…)
Judy Clemens: Flowers for Her Grave (This will be the 3rd in the Grim Reaper Mystery Series…)
Susan Conant: Brute Strength (This will be the 19th in the Dog Lover’s Mystery Series…)
Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Bitter Harvest (This will be the in the 5th in the Orchard Mystery Series…)
Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Murder by Mocha (This will be the 10th in the Coffeehouse Mystery Series…)
Ellen Crosby: The Sauvignon Secret (This will be the 6th in the Wine Country Mystery Series…)
Mary Daheim: All the Pretty Hearses (This will be the 26th in the Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series…)
Carole Nelson Douglas: Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta (This will be the 23rd in the Midnight Louie Mystery Series…)
Anthony Eglin: Garden of Secrets Past (This will be the 5th in the English Garden Mystery Series…)
Jane Haddam: Flowering Judas (This will be the 26th in the Gregor Demarkian Mystery Series…)
Charlaine Harris: Home Improvement: Undead Edition (Editor of anthology with Toni L. P. Kelner)
Charlaine Harris: The Sookie Stackhouse Companion (This will be a companion to the Sookie Stackhouse Mystery Series…)
Roderic Jeffries (aka Peter Alding & Jeffrey Ashford): Murder Majorcan Style (This will be the 35th in the Inspector Alvarez Mystery Series…)
Toni L. P. Kelner: Home Improvement: Undead Edition (Editor of anthology with Charlaine Harrris)
Tracy Kiely: Murder Most Persuasive (This will be the 3rd in the Elizabeth Parker Mystery Series…)
William Kent Krueger: Northwest Angle (This will be the 11th in the Cork O’Connor Mystery Series…)
Joyce & Jim Lavene: Harrowing Hats (This will be the 4th in the Renaissance Faire Mystery Series…)
Laura Lippman: The Most Dangerous Thing (This will be a Stand Alone…)
Casey Mayes (aka Tim Myers, Chris Cavender, Elizabeth Bright, & Melissa Glazer): A Killer Column (This will be the 2nd in the Math Puzzle Mystery Series…)
Judi McCoy: Till Death Do Us Bark (This will be the 5th in the Dog Walker Mystery Series…)
James Patterson & Marshall Karp: Kill Me If You Can (This will be a Stand Alone…)
Louise Penny: A Trick of the Light (This will be the 7th in the Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series…)
Anne Perry: Acceptable Loss (This will be the 17th in the William Monk Mystery Series…)
Kathy Reichs: Flash and Bones (This will be the 14th in the Temperance Brennan Mystery Series…)
Sarah R. Shaber: Louise’s War (This will be the 1st in the NEW Louise Pearlie Mystery Series…)
Marcia Talley: A Quiet Death (This will be the 10th in the Hannah Ives Mystery Series…)
Charles Todd: A Bitter Truth (This will be the 3rd in the Bess Crawford Mystery Series…)
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Ann says
I’m amazed at the number of books Carol Nelson Douglas has published.
Ann
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Ann, take a look at M. C. Beaton’s list of books – and don’t forget to add her Marion Chesney books. That’s a whole lot of books!
(Or how about James Patterson?!?)
Maria (BearMountainBooks) says
I am not even ready for July! Don’t remind me that August is coming up!
Cleo Coyle says
Hi Danna – I’m dropping by to say thank you kindly for listing my new release (Murder by Mocha). I’m in great company this August, and I hope everyone enjoys their summer reading.
I’ll be doing some fun themed giveaways in August via my web site so drop on by. I’m also happy to report that Roast Mortem (last year’s HC Coffeehouse Mystery) will be released August 2nd in paperback form, and AudioGo (BBC Audiobooks America) has purchased rights to put the entire Coffeehouse Mystery back list in audio form for the first time. (This was a long time coming, and it’s great news.)
Finally, I didn’t want to pop in empty handed. 🙂 Murder by Mocha will include chocolate recipes, but two of the most popular summer recipes on my site involve strawberries and limes. I hope you and your site visitors enjoy them. For a free PDF of my (Low Fat) Strawberry Muffins click here. For my Key Lime Coolers (cookies) click here, and…
Enjoy your summer!
~ Cleo Coffeehouse Mystery.com
Cleo Coyle on Twitter
Danna - cozy mystery list says
You are quite welcome, Cleo. I am going to post an entry with this very same comment from you in hopes that it “reaches” more people.
This surely is great news about your books all going audio. I am a member of audible.com, and love it when they add more and more Cozy Mystery books to their library of audios.
Thank you for stopping by!
Denise says
Thanks for the new list. I love this site!
Patricia says
I know this may seem a bit of a rant but I would like to have the views of other readers on this. For many years I have been reading murder mystery cozies and thoroughly enjoyed and devoured them, but I am finding with some of the authors in the past year in particular that perhaps they are writing a romance rather than a murder mystery cozy. On several occasions lately I have picked up their latest paperback, eager to read it, and half way through I start to wonder if the murder mystery is still relevant as I am sidetracked onto the existing romance/or new one and have to go a few chapters before getting back to the plot. On a few occasions this year I have put the book down, not wishing to continue as it has been driving me round the bend.
Sorry for this but I am just wondering if other recipients to your website are finding the same problem.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Patricia, I am going to post an entry with your comment so that more people can view it. (I’m never sure how many people see the comments.)
Beth says
I haven’t really noticed that the romance will take over the book. (I can think of one and I don’t read her books anymore.) Quite a few series have the main character falling in love and marrying another character, but that is 2ndry to the story. (Donna Andrews, Diane Mott Davidson and even Tony Hillerman.) For myself, the easiest answer to the problem is stop reading that particular series.
I usually like the addition of a romance. (Only if its secondary to the story.) Like a two in one. If the author gets carried away, it can be a real bummer.
Shirley says
Hello Danna;
I agree with Patricia & I have favorite mystery writers, I have always enjoyed, but when going into the mysteries if the romance starts and goes on & On. If I want a romance I will buy one, but it isn’t fair to pay for a book like cozy, or murder mystery and it turns out to be something else; so
I to have a notebook and that author, I will not buy again.
It might be fair to them, but they should stay with what they are writing and let us decide…..Maybe this will give some of the authors a WAKE-UP call……smile.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Shirley and Beth, small world! I just wrote an entry featuring Patricia’s problem with romantic ties taking over more and more of her Cozy Mysteries.
Tonya says
What about Tempest in the Tea Leaves (Kari Lee Townsend), A Sheetcake Named Desire (Jacklyn Brady), Pleating for Mercy (Melissa Bourbon), A Good Day to Pie (Carol Culver), A Killing in Antiques (Mary Moody)
So many new authors…hard to keep up!! And I know I’ve left out a few.
Thanks for doing this site!! It’s my go-to for cozies 🙂
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thank you, Tonya, for telling us about all of these authors!
Donna says
Just looked up these authors and they do seem like a good read! Thanks for sharing and Danna – thanks for all the hard work! I really like the fact that Cleo Coyle posted on your site as well. It is nice to see those comments.
Diane says
I have just bought A Sheetcake Named Desire by Jacklyn Brady. At the back of the book it said Jacklyn Brady is a pseudonym for an author in both mystery and romamce. Does anyone know what other name she writes under? I’m enjoying this book and would like to read others by her.
Thank You
Diane
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Diane, Jacklyn Brady is better known as Sherry Lewis.
Tonya says
Also new for August, first in a Magical Dressmaking Mystery, Pleating For Mercy (Melissa Bourbon), aka Misa Ramirez (Lola Cruz Mysteries)
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thanks again, Tonya, for telling us about Melissa Bourbon.
JoAnn says
does anyone know anything about Sue Henry, Jesse Arnold- alaskan dogsledder mysteries, the next one Cold as Ice was due out 2 months ago, they now say sept, but even amazon does not have a date for release.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
JoAnn, we have wondered that very same thing. Hopefully someone will know something and post…