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Beverly Allen (aka Barbara Early), Amanda Cooper (aka Victoria Hamilton), Lois Lavrisa, Dixie Lyle, & Laura Morrigan : Five New Authors to the Cozy Mystery Site

I thought it was about time that I add some new mystery authors to the Cozy Mystery site. These are authors who have been recommended by other Cozy Mystery readers as belonging on the Cozy Mystery site.

 Beverly Allen (aka Barbara Early) writes the Bridal Bouquet Shop Mystery Series. This series takes place in Virginia and features one of the co-owners of the Rose in Bloom flower shop. Audrey Bloom sleuths while arranging beautiful wedding flower pieces of art. (You would think the author was a florist rather than the Electrical Engineer she was.) As Early she has written a Christmas novella.

 Amanda Cooper (aka Victoria Hamilton & Donna Lea Simpson): OK, OK, I know some of you are already followers of Victoria Hamilton, so you probably know she already has a page on the Cozy Mystery site. I just wanted to officially introduce you all to Amanda Cooper. As Cooper she writes the Teapot Collector Mystery Series. Sophie Taylor is an employee in her family’s Victorian Tearoom in New York. Hamilton’s fans know she writes the Vintage Kitchen Mystery Series as well as the Merry Muffin Mystery Series. (She also writes an historical/romance mystery series as Donna Lea Simpson called the Lady Anne Addison series..)

 Lois Lavrisa writes the Chubby Chicks Club Mystery Series. This series features Cat and Annie Mae, two best friends who sleuth together in Savannah, Georgia. Lavrisa has a Young Adult spin-off called the Thomson Twins Mystery Series. She also writes the Liquid Lies thriller/suspence series for Young Adults.

 Dixie Lyle Pens the Whiskey, Tango, and Foxtrot Mystery Series. This is a paranormal mystery series. Foxtrot (“short” for Deirdre) is the administrative assistant for a woman who is rich beyond being rich. As her assistant, Foxtrot cares for both the mansion and grounds. Foxtrot is aided by her childhood cat, Tango, who happens to be a telepathic cat. Also along for the sleuthing is Tiny, a shape-shifting ghost dog.

 Laura Morrigan writes the Call of the Wilde Mystery Series.  Grace Wilde has telepathic abilities with animals. This comes in handy if a crime is committed in the presence of a pet, or a wild animal. Grace is able to get clues that only a witnessing animal can give. The series is set in Florida.

Passover Mystery Book List

Lest you all think I forgot, for those of you who are looking for Passover Mystery Books, I also have that theme. I should have mentioned it when I talked about my Easter themed mystery books, but for some reason I didn’t. Here is my Passover Mystery Book list. As with the Easter list, please let me know if you see any Passover mysteries that I am missing. Thank you!

If you’re looking for Easter theme mystery books, click on this link.

(This link will take you to the page on my Cozy Mystery site with many more Holiday Theme lists.)

Three New Cozy Mystery Series Coming in May

I don’t know if any of you have been keeping an eye on the Cozy Mystery site’s new page entitled New Cozy Mystery Book Series, but if you have, you already know that three of our Cozy Mystery authors are embarking on new series during the month of May. Wow! We had three new series during April, and now we have three more Cozy Mystery series to look forward to. Personally, I think that’s pretty neat!

 Dorothy Cannell, that’s right, Dorothy Cannell of the very popular Ellie Haskell Mystery Series (The Thin Woman, etc.) is starting the new Florence Norris Mystery Series. Florence is a housekeeper for the very upper-crust Stodmarsh family. She works at Mullings, the country house that has been in their family for three hundred years. The series takes place during the 1930s. Murder at Mullings will be the first in Cannell’s new Florence Norris Mystery Series.

 Hannah Dennison of the Vicky Hill Exclusive! Mystery Series is finally back, and after a three year absence she will be bringing us the new Kat Stanford Mystery Series. Kat Stanford was formerly a television celebrity host who now owns the Honeychurch Hall Antique Shop in England. Kat and her mother, Iris, had been planning on opening a fabulous antique shop, however Iris bought a shabby, old carriage house on a country estate that is not in a good location for an antique shop. Besides all of this bad news, Kat is discovering she doesn’t know everything there is to know about her mother. Murder at Honeychurch Hall is the first of the Kat Stanford Mystery Series.

Mary Ellen Hughes, the author of the Craft Corner Mystery Series as well as the Maggie Olenski Mystery Series, will be giving us the new Pickled and Preserved Mystery Series. This series takes place in Cloverdale, a small town in New York. Piper Lamb is the owner of Piper’s Picklings, a shop which specializes in pickels and preserves. Piper is given a great opportunity to showcase her pickles at the Cloverdale Fair, but instead of highlighting her pickles, she ends up having to highlight her sleuthing skills.The Pickled Piper is the first mystery in the Pickled and Preserved Mystery Series.

I don’t have any new Holiday Cozy Mysteries to tell you about this month, but I believe there are a couple I’ll be telling you about next month.

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May 2014 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in May 2014:

Mike Befeler: Nursing Homes Are Murder (This will be the 6th in the Paul Jacobson Geezer-Lit Mystery Series.)

Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber): The Goodbye Witch (This will be the 4th in the Wishcraft Mystery Series.)

Lawrence Block: Borderline (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Mollie Cox Bryan: Scrappy Summer (This will be a Cumberland Creek Mystery novella.)

Dorothy Cannell: Murder at Mullings (This will be the 1st in the NEW Florence Norris Mystery Series.)

Clive Cussler & Graham Brown: Ghost Ship (This will be the 12th in the NUMA Files Series.)

Kathi Daley: Maui Madness (This will be the 7th in the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Bikinis in Paradise (This will be the 3rd in the TJ Jensen Paradise Lake Mystery Series.)

Jeffery Deaver: The Skin Collector (This will be the 11th in the Lincoln Rhyme Mystery Series.)

Hannah Dennison: Murder at Honeychurch Hall (This will be the 1st in the NEW Honeychurch Hall Mystery Series.)

Claire Donally: Last Licks (This will be the 3rd in the Sunny & Shadow Mystery Series.)

Kate Ellis: The Shroud Maker (This will be the 18th in the Wesley Peterson Mystery Series.)

Sally Goldenbaum: Murder in Merino (This will be the 8th in the Seaside Knitters Mystery Series.)

Kerry Greenwood: Murder and Mendelssohn (This will be the 21st  in the Phryne Fisher Mystery Series.)

Carolyn Haines: Booty Bones (This will be the 14th in the Sarah Book Delaney Mystery Series.)

Charlaine Harris: Midnight Crossroad (This will be the 1st in the NEW Midnight, Texas Mystery Series.)

Carolyn Hart: Death at the Door (This will be the 24th in the Death on Demand Bookstore Mystery Series.)

Mary Ellen Hughes: The Pickled Piper (This will be the 1st in the NEW Pickled and Preserved Mystery Series.)

Maddy Hunter: Fleur de Lies (This will be the 9th in the Passport to Peril Mystery Series.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Lethal Lily (This will be the 6th in the Peggy Lee Garden Mystery Series.)

Lizbeth Lipperman (aka Liz Lipperman): Jailhouse Glock (This will be the 2nd in the Dead Sister Talking Mystery Series.)

Karen MacInerney: Death Runs Adrift (This will be the 6th in the Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series.)

Edith Maxwell (aka Tace Baker): ‘Til Dirt Us Part (This will be the 2nd in the Local Foods Mystery Series.)

Susan McBride: To Helen Back (This will be the 1st in the NEW River Road Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Death of a Mad Hatter (This will be the 2nd in the Hat Shop Mystery Series.)

Susan McBride: To Helen Back (This will be the 1st in the NEW River Road Mystery Series.)

Catriona McPherson: The Day She Died (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Laura Morrigan: A Tiger’s Tale (This will be the 2nd in the Call of the Wilde Mystery Series.)

Katherine Hall Page: Small Plates: Short Fiction (This will be a collection of mystery stories – including Faith Fairchild and Stand Alone mysteries.)

Nancy J. Parra (aka Nancy Coco): Murder Gone A-Rye (This will be the 2nd in the Baker’s Treat Mystery Series.)

James Patterson & Maxine Paetro: Unlucky 13 (This will be the 13th in the Women’s Murder Club Mystery Series.)

Cate Price: A Dollhouse to Die For (This will be the 2nd in the Deadly Notions Mystery Series.)

Barbara Ross: Boiled Over (This will be the 2nd in the Maine Clambake Mystery Series.)

Michele Scott: Dark Harmony (This will be the 2nd in the Vivienne Taylor Horse Lover’s Mystery Series.)

Sarah Strohmeyer: The Secrets of Lily Graves (This will be a Stand Alone mystery for Young Adults.)

Victoria Thompson: Murder in Murray Hill (This will be the 16th in the Gaslight Mystery Series.)

Rebecca Tope: Trouble in the Cotswolds (This will be the 12th in the Thea Osborne Cotswolds Mystery Series.)

Elaine Viets: Catnapped! (This will be the 13th in the Dead-End Job Mystery Series.)

To go back to the Cozy Mystery New Book Release page, click here.

(These are the mysteries by authors who are currently on the Cozy Mystery site.)

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