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February 2018 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in February 2018:

February 2018

M. C. Beaton: Death of an Honest Man (This will be the 34th in the Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series.)

Frances Brody: Death in the Stars (This will be the 8th in the Kate Shackleton Mystery Series.)

Krista Davis: Color Me Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW Pen & Ink Mystery Series.)

Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): The Cat of the Baskervilles (This will be the 3rd in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery Series.)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Lethal Licorice (This will be the 2nd in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery.)

Joanne Fluke: Raspberry Danish Murder (This will be the 22nd in the Hannah Swensen Mystery Series.) (This is a Thanksgiving themed mystery.)

Sherry Harris: I Know What You Bid Last Summer (This will be the 5th in the Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery.)

Miranda James (aka Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Dean James): Claws for Concern (This will be the 9th in the Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series.)

T.C. LoTempio: Death by a Whisker (This will be the 2nd in the Cat Rescue Mystery Series.)

Carlene O’Connor: Murder in an Irish Churchyard (This will be the 3rd in the Irish Village Mystery Series.)

Diana Orgain: Killer Cravings (This will be the 6th in the Maternal Instincts Mystery Series.)

Carol J. Perry: It Takes a Coven (This will be the 6th in the Witch City Mystery Series.)

Loretta Ross: Death & the Viking’s Daughter (This will be the 4th in the Auction Block Mystery Series.)

Annelise Ryan (aka Allyson K. Abbott & Beth Amos): Dead Calm(This will be the 9th in the Mattie Winston Mystery Series.)

Sofie Ryan (aka Sofie Kelly): The Fast and the Furriest (This will be the 5th in the Second Chance Cat Mystery Series.)

Charles Todd: The Gatekeeper (This will be the 20th in the Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery Series.)

If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the January 2017 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.)

Laura Bradford: Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery Series

Éclair and Present Danger (An Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery Book 1) I’ve just finished reading the first book in the Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery Series, Éclair and Present Danger, by Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey). This is the next book of the Most Popular and Recommended Series list that I have been compiling.

Laura Bradford is a new-to-me author, but she has been writing Cozies as Elizabeth Lynn Casey since 2009. She has five series listed on the site, and after having read Éclair and Present Danger, I believe that I must make time to try her other series!

Winnie Johnson is having a very bad day as the book begins. She discovers that her neighbor who recently died left her a cat (who doesn’t like Winnie) and an old ambulance. Winnie was hoping that she was being left some money or at least something of great value since this is also the last day her dream bakery is open. She is being forced to close because of an increase on the rent which she cannot pay and still keep the bakery a going concern. Her bad day gets worse by far when she discovers another elderly neighbor dead — murdered.

Of course, being a Cozy series, Winnie takes it upon herself to find the killer of her neighbor. And, it turns out that there are a number of people with ample motive to want him dead. Winnie, her friend Renee and her other elderly neighbors Bridget O’Keefe and Parker Nelson (Mr. Nelson lives in the other apartment in her house) all lend a hand (to varying degrees) in the sleuthing to find the killer.

And, Winnie has the brilliant idea to turn her old ambulance into a mobile delivery van for her new idea >> the “Emergency Dessert Squad” bakery business.  With Renee as her helper, Winnie uses her own home to bake the goodies with each having emergency-related names. And, then she delivers them using the ambulance. The names of the baked goods are along the lines of “You Are One Smart Cookie, Cookie”, and “Don’t-Be-Blue Berry Pie”. The business quickly becomes a great success with Bridget’s help >> Bridget writes a column in the local paper.

There are several potential romantic interests in the book for Winnie. Her friends are quite keen to see her find someone and settle down. Winnie is not so much in a hurry, but in the first book she does find someone who she likes a lot.

I enjoyed Éclair and Present Danger, and I am quite tempted to read the first book in Laura Bradford’s Amish Mystery Series soon (if I can find the time to squeeze in even more reading time!

Click here to read more posts about the most popular and recommended Cozy Mystery series.

PS: There are a bunch of recipes included at the end of the book!

 

New Releases – December 25 to December 31, 2017

Here is the list of new releases for December 25 to December 31!

Winnie Archer (aka Melissa Bourbon & Misa Ramirez): Crust No One (This will be the 2nd in the Bread Shop Mystery Series.)

Susan Furlong (aka Lucy Arlington, Susan Furlong-Bolliger, & S. Furlong-Bolliger): Splintered Silence (This will be a Stand Alone Novel.)

Alyssa Maxwell: A Devious Death (This will be the 3rd in the Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery Series.)

Barbara Ross: Stowed Away (This will be the 6th in the Maine Clambake Mystery Series.)

Karen Rose Smith: Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes (This will be the 1st in the NEW Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery Series.)

Three New-to-the-Site Cozy Authors

I’m adding three more new authors to the site. As usual, these are authors I’ve heard of from visitors to the site, either through comments or by email.

Bethany Blake lives in a small town that inspired the setting of her main series, has a Ph. D. she never uses, and runs a pet sitting business. She writes the Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery Series, starring Daphne Templeton, a pet sitter in the lakeside village of Sylvan Creek.

 

 

Richard Houston has worked as both a carpenter and a software engineer, the later of which he worked on the space shuttle at Vandenberg AFT and the Johnson Space Center. He has a bachelor’s degree in math, and lives now lives in Missouri. He’s the author of the Books to Die For Mystery Series, starring recently divorced Jacob Martin, who is going through a midlife crisis, and his golden retriever.

Radha Vatsal was born in Mumbai, India, then attended a United States boarding school until the age of sixteen. She attended Duke University, where she earned a doctorate in English. She’s the author of the Kitty Weeks Mystery Series, a 1910’s period piece starring Capability “Kitty” Weeks, a newspaper reporter who hopes to jump from fashion and society on the Ladies’ Page to criminal reporting.

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