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New Releases – November 30 to December 6, 2020

Here is the list of new releases for November 30 to December 6!

Tessa Arlen: Poppy Redfern and the Fatal Flyers (This will be the 2nd in the Woman of WWII Mystery Series.)

Kate Carlisle: Premeditated Mortar (This will be the 8th in the Fixer-Upper Mystery Series.)

Cate Conte (aka Liz Mugavero): A Whisker of a Doubt (This will be the 4th in the Cat Cafe Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Spann Craig (aka Riley Adams & Elizabeth Craig): Hush-Hush (This will be the 4th in the Village Library Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Spann Craig (aka Riley Adams & Elizabeth Craig): Murder on the Ballot (This will be the 17th in the Myrtle Clover Cozy Mystery Series.)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Courting Can Be Killer (This will be the 2nd in the Amish Matchmaker Mystery Series.)

S. J. Rozan: The Art of Violence (This will be the 13th in the Bill Smith & Lydia Chin Mystery Series.)

Marty Wingate: Murder Is a Must (This will be the 2nd in the First Edition Library Mystery Series.)

New Releases – November 16 to November 22, 2020

Here is the list of new releases for November 16 to November 22!

M. C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Hot to Trot (This will be the 31st in the Agatha Raisin Mystery Series.)

Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke: Piece of My Heart (This will be the 7th in the Under Suspicion Mystery Series.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Berried Motives (This will be the 6th in the Cranberry Cove Mystery Series.)

Jane Haddam (aka Orania Papazoglou): One of Our Own (This will be the 30th in the Gregor Demarkian Mystery Series.)

Karen Rose Smith: Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery Series

Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes (A Daisy's Tea Garden Mystery Book 1) I recently finished reading Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes, the first in a series by Karen Rose Smith, Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery series. This is next in my list of most popular and recommended Cozy Mystery series. This is the second series by Karen Rose Smith, following her Caprice De Luca Mystery Series.

Murder With Lemon Tea Cakes follows the life of Daisy Swanson, the owner of “Daisy’s Tea Garden”, a shop in Willow Creek, a semi-tourist small town in Amish country near Lancaster. Daisy is 37, a widow, and has two teenage daughters, one of whom has just left for college. 

There was a tradition in Daisy’s family that all the women were given flower names. Her mother’s name was Rose, her aunt’s name was Iris, and Daisy’s sister’s name was Camellia. Daisy had named her daughters Violet and Jasmine. But Jazzi never used her full name. She preferred her nickname.

As it happens in Cozy Mysteries, the small-town charm of Willow Creek is soon marred by a murder — right in the middle of the garden of “Daisy’s Tea Garden”, no less. The small-town police of Willow Creek seem to have no business trying to solve the mystery of who is the murderer. They are even more incompetent than is normal and are soon grilling Daisy’s Aunt Iris as their chief suspect.

Luckily, Daisy and her new friend, the proprietor of the nearby furniture store, Jonas, who is, coincidentally, a very eligible bachelor and an ex-police detective, are available to try to solve the mystery and clear Iris from this cloud of suspicion.

There is a subplot involving Jazzi who has a mystery of her own to solve. (Jonas helps with that one too). And, the story contains a lot of information about tea and goodies served with tea. At the end of the book, there are several original recipes. (If I baked – other than boxed/prepared types of things, I’d be very tempted to try them.)

The small town of Willow Creek is a very comforting place to visit. I am very glad the series is already up to book six.  I always enjoy finding a new series that is already established…

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