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January 2019 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in January 2019:

Lorraine Bartlett (aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorna Barrett): The Reluctant Bride (This will be the 5th story in the Life On Victoria Square Mystery Series.)

Cynthia Baxter: Hot Fudge Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Lickety Splits Ice Cream Shoppe Mystery Series.)

Alan Bradley: The Golden Tresses of the Dead (This will be the 12th in the Flavia de Luce Mystery Series.)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): The Lost Traveller (This will be the 7th in the County Cork Mystery Series.)

E. J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Bones Behind the Wheel (This will be the 10th in the Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Eighth Witness (This will be the 8th in the Writers Retreat Mystery Series.)

Jeffery Deaver: Ninth and Nowhere (This will be a story with a lot of suspense.)

Leighann Dobbs: Hidden Secrets (This will be the 9th in the Blackmoore Sisters Mystery Series.)

Tim Dorsey: No Sunscreen for the Dead (This will be the 22nd in the Serge A. Storms non-Cozy Mystery Series.)

K.J. Emrick: As Long As There’s Cake (This will be the 6th in the Cookie and Cream Mystery Series.)

Christina Freeburn: Not a Creature Was Stirring (This will be the 1st in the NEW Merry & Bright Handcrafted Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Sarah Graves: Death by Chocolate Malted Milkshake (This will be the 2nd in the Death by Chocolate Mystery Series.)

Sherry Harris: The Gun Also Rises (This will be the 6th in the Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery.)

Abigail Keam: Death by Stalking (This will be the 12th in the Josiah Reynolds, Beekeeper Mystery Series.)

Diane Kelly: Dead as a Door Knocker (This will be the 1st in the NEW House-Flipper Mystery Series.)

Leslie Langtry: Marriage Vow Murder (This will be the 9th in the Merry Wrath Mystery Series.)

Molly MacRae: Crewel and Unusual (This will be the 6th in the Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery Series.)

Alyssa Maxwell: A Murderous Marriage (This will be the 4th in the Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery Series.)

Liz Mugavero (aka Cate Conte): Murder, She Meowed (This will be the 7th in the Pawsitively Organic Mystery Series.)

Gigi Pandian: The Alchemist’s Illusion (This will be the 4th in the Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series.)

Nancy J. Parra (aka Nancy Coco & Nell Hampton): Seven Deadly Zins (This will be the 2nd in the Wine Country Mystery Series.)

Wendy Roberts: A Grave Peril (This will be the 3rd in the Bodies of Evidence Mystery Series.)

Sara Rosett: Murder at Blackburn Hall (This will be the 2nd in the High Society Lady Detective Mystery Series.)

Sofie Ryan (aka Sofie Kelly): No Escape Claws (This will be the 6th in the Second Chance Cat Mystery Series.)

Tracy Weber: Murder Likes It Hot (This will be the 6th in the Downward Dog Mystery Series.

If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the December 2018 Mystery Book New Releases.

You can find these and many more Cozies scheduled for release soon on the Soon to be Released Mysteries page on my site.

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

Cheap Kindles – November 2018

Here’s another list of Cheap (inexpensive) Kindles. Some of these might be temporary sales, so make sure you check prices before buying!

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Shelly Fredman
BRANDY ALEXANDER MYSTERY Series:
No Such Thing as a Secret (book #1)
No Such Thing as a Good Blind Date (book #2)
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (book #3)
No Such Thing as a Free Ride (book #4)
No Such Thing as a Lost Cause (book #5)
No Such Thing as a Lost Soul  (book #6)

Sara Hoskinson Frommer
JOAN SPENCER Series:
Murder in C Major (book #1)
Buried in Quilts (book #2)
Murder & Sullivan (book #3)
The Vanishing Violinist (book #4)
Witness in Bishop Hill (book #5)
Death Climbs a Tree (book #6)
Her Brother’s Keeper (book #7)

Karen MacInerney
GRAY WHALE INN MYSTERY Series:
Murder on the Rocks (book #1)
Dead and Berried (book #2)
Murder Most Maine (book #3)
Berried to the Hilt (book #4)
Brush with Death (book #5)
Death Runs Adrift (book #6)
Whale of a Crime (book #7)
Claws for Alarm (book #8)

DEWBERRY FARM MYSTERY Series:
Killer Jam (book #1)
Fatal Frost (book #2)
Deadly Brew (book #3)
Mistletoe Murder (book #4)

Joanne Pence
ANGIE & FRIENDS FOOD & SPIRITS MYSTERY Series:
Cooking Spirits (book #1)
Add a Pinch of Murder (book #2)
Cook’s Big Day (book #3)
Murder by Devil’s Food (book #4)

REBECCA MAYFIELD Series:
One O’Clock Hustle (book #1)
Two O’Clock Heist (book #2)
Three O’Clock Séance (book #3)
Four O’Clock Sizzle (book #4)
Five O’Clock Twist (book #5)

Larissa Reinhart
MAIZIE ALBRIGHT STAR DETECTIVE MYSTERY Series:
15 Minutes (book #1)
16 Millimeters (book #2)
NC-17 (book #3)

FINLEY GOODHART CRIME CAPER MYSTERY Series:
The Cupid Caper (book #1)

CHERRY TUCKER MYSTERY Series:
Portrait of a Dead Guy (book #1)
Still Life in Brunswick Stew (book #2)
Hijack in Abstract (book #3)
Death in Perspective (book #4)
The Body in the Landscape (book #5)

Maggie Toussaint
DREAMWALKER MYSTERY Series:
Gone and Done It (book #1)
Bubba Done It (book #2)
Doggone It (book #3)
Confound It (book #4)

CLEOPATRA JONES MYSTERY Series:
In for a Penny (book #1)
On the Nickel (book #2)
Dime if I Know (book #3)
No Quarter (book #4)

MOSSY BOG Series:
Muddy Waters (book #1)
Hot Water (book #2)

STAND ALONES:
House of Lies
No Second Chance
Death, Island Style
Murder in the Buff

LynDee Walker
HEADLINES IN HEELS MYSTERY Series:
Front Page Fatality (book #1)
Buried Leads (book #2)
Small Town Spin (book #3)
Devil in the Deadline (book #4)
Cover Shot (book #5)
Lethal Lifestyles (book #6)

Suzanne Young
EDNA DAVIES MYSTERY SERIES:
Murder by Yew (book #1)
Murder by Proxy (book #2)
Murder by Mishap (book #3)
Murder by Christmas (book #4)
Murder by Arrangement (book #5)

FISHEN-RODD MYSTERY SERIES:
The Wrong Coat (book #1)

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Just a reminder >>> be sure to check prices to make sure that these sales are still in effect!

New Releases – November 26 to December 2, 2018

Here is the list of new releases for November 26 to December 2!

Ellery Adams (aka Jennifer Stanley, J. B. Stanley, & 1/2 of Lucy Arlington): The Whispered Word (This will be the 2nd in the Secret, Book & Scone Society Mystery Series.)

Lorraine Bartlett (aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorna Barrett) & Gayle Leeson: Yule Be Dead (This will be the 5th in the Victoria Square Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Bethany Blake: A Midwinter’s Tail (This will be the 4th in the Petsitting Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey): Just Plain Murder (This will be the 6th in the Amish Mystery Series.)

V.M. Burns: The Novel Art of Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Mystery Bookshop Mystery Series.)

Lynn Cahoon: Slay in Character (This will be the 4th in the Cat Latimer Mystery Series.)

Krista Davis: The Coloring Crook (This will be the 2nd in the Pen & Ink Mystery Series.)

Kate Dyer-Seeley (aka Ellie Alexander): Violet Tendencies (This will be the 2nd in the Rose City Mystery Series.)

Sally Goldenbaum: How to Knit a Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Seaside Knitters Society Mystery Series.)

Louise Penny: Kingdom of the Blind (This will be the 14th in the Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series.)

Karen Rose Smith: Cut to the Chaise (This will be the 8th in the Caprice De Luca Mystery Series.)

David Rosenfelt: Andy Carpenter Mystery Series

This time around, I want to talk about one of my favorite series as part of my efforts to discuss some of the most popular and recommended Cozy Mysteries listed on the site. David Rosenfelt’s Andy Carpenter Mystery Series starts out with a bang with Open and Shut, the first of many Andy Carpenter books. Published in 2002, the series will be up to book nineteen in 2019. For those of us who like series with a lot of books, this is a great one!

Before I get started, I must state for the record that this series does contain some non-cozy elements. There are some adult situations (nothing is explicitly described, though) and some adult language. I know that some of you all want to avoid books that contain these things. However, the stories do have a lot of Cozy components.

Andy Carpenter is a defense attorney who lives in Paterson, New Jersey. Andy is not afraid to rock the boat, so to speak, when trying to defend his clients. His courtroom antics do not endear himself to the judges he appears before and probably sometimes push the limits of legal ethics. However, they are often successful.

Andy has a beautiful private investigator, Laurie Collins, working for him. Laurie and Andy on occasion mix professional and personal business together. On the whole, they make a great team who I am sure I would want working for me if I were accused of a crime!

Also included prominently in the series are a number of dogs, first and foremost of which is Andy’s Golden Retriever, Tara. This series makes it very apparent that David Rosenfelt is definitely a lover of dogs. (I haven’t read Rosenfelt’s Lessons from Tara: Life Advice from the World’s Most Brilliant Dog , but I’m guessing that a lot of us dog parents would disagree with Rosenfelt saying that Tara is even more brilliant than our own pups!)

Open and Shut is the story of Andy’s defense of Willie Miller, a death row inmate who Andy’s father had prosecuted successfully for murder seven years before when Andy’s father had been State’s attorney. Andy took on the appeal at the request of Andy’s father who would not go into more detail as to why he wanted Andy to work on the appeal. Andy was reluctant to take on this apparent loser of a case until his father told him, “It would be important to me.”

Andy goes on to explain why he felt compelled to do as his father asked:

There it was, the sentence from which there was no defense. In my family, when you asked a favor of someone, it was acceptable to refuse. But once the person said that it was important to them, it crossed a line and became an absolute imperative. We did not use those words frivolously, and they carried an awesome weight.

Needless to say, the mystery that Andy investigates is complicated and involves a number of secrets which must be revealed with many threads that must be unraveled so that justice may be done.

Open and Shut is a page-turner. Along with the investigation of the mystery and the court room work, the book holds my interest because of the characters, Andy’s terrific sense of humor, and his Golden Retriever, Tara. (Ok, so maybe she is the world’s most brilliant dog!) If you like your mysteries with a bit of humor and more than a bit of an edge, the Andy Carpenter Mystery Series may well be for you too!

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