For the beginning of the new year, we can look forward to two new Cozy Mystery Series by established authors, one of which is a Holiday-themed Cozy Mystery entry!

First, Christina Freeburn will be releasing Not a Creature Was Stirring, the first in her new Merry & Bright Handcrafted Mystery Series. Now that her children are all grown, Merry Winters has decided to enjoy her passions of Christmas, crafting, and her family by going on the road in an RV to a Christmas vendor event, but she’s surprised to find her ex-husband aboard the RV already – and even more surprised to find him dead. Now she’ll need to find the real killer to make sure that she can enjoy the holidays decked out in red and green instead of prison-issue orange! Freeburn also writes the Faith Hunter Scrap This Mystery Series, starring a former US army JAG specialist now running a scrapbooking store.

The other new series will be Diane Kelly‘s Dead as a Door Knocker, the first in the House-Flipper Mystery Series. Whitney Whitaker is a house flipper working on a fixer-upper with a problem she hasn’t seen before – a dead body in the flower bed! Suffice to say, that sort of thing doesn’t help property values, so finishing this job will unexpectedly require the clearing up the death. Diane Kelly also writes the Tara Holloway Mystery Series, starring an IRS criminal investigations agent, and the Paw Enforcement Mystery Series, starring a police officer and her K-9 partner.

For more upcoming Cozy Mystery Series, check out the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page on the site. For more Christmas-themed Cozy Mysteries, check out the Christmas Mystery Book List page on the site.