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One New Mystery Series, Two New Cozy Holiday Releases Coming April 2017

We will have one new Cozy Mystery Series beginning in April 2017, and two new holiday-themed Cozy releases! I decided to compile these into a single post, since each would be a bit short otherwise.

 Nell Hampton will be releasing Kale to the Queen, the first book in her Kensington Palace Chef Mystery Series. American Carrie Ann Cole has just become personal chef to the royal family in Kensington Palace, when one of her assistants turns up dead and the other turns out to be the chief suspect. Carrie will need to discover who truly committed the crime to put her kitchens back in order. Nell Hampton also writes as Nancy J. Parra, under which name she wrote the Baker’s Treat Mystery Series, starring a gluten-free baker in Kansas, and the Perfect Proposals Mystery Series, starring a wedding event planner. She also writes under the Candy-Coated Mystery Series under the name Nancy Coco, starring the owner of a  fudge shop in her family’s historic hotel in Michigan.

 Kathi Daley will be releasing Easter Escapade, the 24th book in her Zoe Donovan Mystery Series. A crossover with her Sand and Sea Mystery Series, Luke and Lani are visiting from Hawaii when a historian visiting Ashton falls turns up dead. They’ll need to team up with Zoe and Zak to discover who killed the historian, and hopefully retrieve the dead man’s stolen treasure map! Daley also writes the TJ Jensen Paradise Lake Mystery Series and the Whales and Tails Mystery Series.

Finally, Gayle Leeson will be releasing Silence of the Jams, a Fourth of July themed Cozy and the 2nd in her Down South Cafe Mystery Series. When the local Chamber of Commerce director turns up dead on the Fourth of July, Amy Flowers quickly becomes a prime suspect, as he had been attempting to purchase her small cafe to convert the property into a bed & breakfast. Amy will need to track down the true culprit in order to prove her own innocence. Gayle Leeson also writes the Daphne Martin Cake Mystery Series and Myrtle Crumb Mystery Series under the name Gayle Trent and the Embroidery Mystery Series under the name Amanda Lee.

For more upcoming new Cozy Mystery Series, visit this page on my site:

New Cozy Mystery Series

For more on Easter and Fourth of July holiday themed Cozies, visit their holiday pages on my site:

Easter Holiday Cozies

Fourth of July Cozies

New Releases – March 6 to March 12, 2017

Here is the list of new release for March 6 to March 12!

Margaret Atwood: The Burgess Shale (This will be a non-fiction look at the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s.)

Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey): Silence of the Flans (This will be the 2nd in the Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery Series.)

Laura Childs: Pekoe Most Poison (This will be the 18th in the Tea Shop Mystery Series.)

Sarah Dunant: In The Name of the Family (This will be a Stand Alone. This is not a mystery.)

Mary Anna Evans: Burials (This will be the 10th in the Faye Longchamp Mystery Series.)

Kay Hooper: Wait for Dark (This will be the 8th in the Bishop Special Crimes Units Mystery Series.)

Kelly Lane: Cold Pressed Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Olive Grove Mystery Series.)

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Gone with the Twins (This will be the 5th in the League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series.)

Linda Wiken (aka Erika Chase): Roux the Day (This will be the 2nd in the Dinner Club Mystery Series.)

Marty Wingate: Every Trick in the Rook (This will be the 3rd in the Birds of a Feather Mystery Series.)

New Releases – February 27 to March 5, 2017

Here is the list of new release for February 27 to March 5!

(By the way, I am still looking for Monthly Recommendations for February!)

Cathy Ace: The Case of the Curious Cook (This will be the 3rd in the WISE Enquiries Agency Mystery Series.)

Winnie Archer (aka Melissa Bourbon & Misa Ramirez): Kneaded to Death (This will be the 1st in the NEW Bread Shop Mystery Series.)

David Baldacci: The Width of the World (This will be the 3rd in the Vega Jane Mystery Series – Ages 11-14, Grades 6-9.)

Rhys Bowen: In Farleigh Field (This will be a stand-alone non-Cozy mystery.)

Lynn Cahoon: Fatality by Firelight (This will be the 2nd in the Cat Latimer Mystery Series.)

Susan Rogers Cooper: Best Served Cold (This will be the 14th in the Milt Kovak Mystery Series.)

Patricia Cornwell: Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert (This will be a revised & expanded version of Cornwell’s 2002 previously released “Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed”)

Joanne Fluke: Banana Cream Pie Murder (This will be the 21st in the Hannah Swensen Mystery Series.)

Anthea Fraser: Retribution (This will be the 10th in the Rona Parish Mystery Series.)

Tonya Kappes: A Ghostly Mortality (This will be the 6th in the Ghostly Southern Mystery Series.)

Faye Kellerman: Bone Box (This will be the 24th in the Decker & Lazarus Mystery Series.)

Carlene O’Connor: Murder at an Irish Wedding (This will be the 2nd in the Irish Village Mystery Series.)

Annelise Ryan (aka Allyson K. Abbott &Beth Amos): Dead in the Water (This will be the 8th in the Mattie Winston Mystery Series.)

Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – February 2017

February is running to a close, and that means it’s time to discuss our recommended Cozy Mysteries that we’ve read throughout the month. If you read a Cozy you can strongly recommend in the month of February, be sure to let the rest of us know here! My own recommendation for this month is Kate Collins‘s Flower Shop Mystery Series.

If you’re interested in reading why I’m recommending these series, you can go to the Most Popular & Recommended Cozy Mystery Series page on my Cozy-Mystery site for my full write-ups on each of these great Cozy series.

So, what have you been reading that you can recommend in February? Please be sure to tell us why you liked these Cozies so much. I know we’re all always on the lookout for more particularly good Cozy Mystery authors! (If you have a lot of Cozies you think are great, please post the ones you like the most at the top of the list.)

As always, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.

What really good Cozy Mystery did you read during February 2017 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:

Ellie Alexander  (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley): Bakeshop Mystery Series

Sandra Balzo: Maggy Thorsen Mystery Series

Lorna Barrett   aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorraine Bartlett: Booktown Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton: Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series

J. W. Becton: Southern Fraud Thriller Series (first book Absolute Liability)

Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey): Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery Series

Janet Cantrell (aka Kaye George): Fat Cat Mystery Series

Kerry J Charles: Dulcie Chambers Mystery Series

Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra and Nell Hampton): Candy-Coated Mystery Series

Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Coffeehouse Mystery Series

Deborah Crombie: Kincaid & James Mystery Series

Annette Dashofy: Zoe Chambers Mystery Series (first book Circle of Influence)

Jo Dereske: Miss Zukas Mystery Series

Susan Finlay: The Outsiders Mystery Series (first book In the Shadows)

Amanda Flower   (aka Isabella Alan): Appleseed Creek Mystery Series AND Magical Bookshop Mystery Series

Jean Flowers (aka Camille Minichino, Margaret Grace, & Ada Madison): Postmistress Mystery Series

Parnell Hall: Puzzle Lady Mystery Series

L.B. Hathaway: Posie Parker Mystery Series

Christine Husom: Snow Globe Shop Mystery Series

Delia James: Witch’s Cat Mystery Series

Diane Kelly: Tara Holloway Mystery Series

Catherine Lloyd: Kurland St. Mary Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Hat Shop Mystery Series

Julie Moffett: Lexi Carmichael Mystery Series

Joanne Pence: Angie Amalfi Mystery Series

Louise Penny: Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series

David Rosenfelt: Andy Carpenter Mystery Series

Hank Phillippi Ryan: Jane Ryland Mystery Series

Paige Shelton: Dangerous Type Mystery Series

Patricia Smiley: Pacific Homicide (stand-alone mystery)

Joyce Tremel: Brewing Trouble Mystery Series

Sigrid Vansandt: Helen & Martha Cozy Mystery Series (first book Two Birds With One Stone)

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]

I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month.

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

P.S. I usually don’t comment on your recommendations since they speak for themselves.

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