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Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – November 2016

December is almost upon us, so it’s time to discuss our favorite Cozy mysteries that we’ve read in November. This month I discussed Jenn McKinlay‘s Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series and Rae Davies‘s Dusty Deals Mystery Series, so I’ll start the list off with those!

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 November? 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 November 2016 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:

Victoria Abbott (writing duo Mary Jane Maffini & daughter Victoria Maffini): Book Collectors Mystery Series

Ali Brandon (aka Diane A.S. Stuckart): Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series

JoAnna Carl (aka Eve K. Sandstrom): Chocoholic Mystery Series

Kate Carlisle: Fixer-Upper Mystery Series

Rae Davies (aka Lori Devoti): Dusty Deals Mystery Series

Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Year-Round Christmas Mystery Series

Sarah Fox: Music Lover’s Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Corinna Chapman Mystery Series

Susanna Hardy (aka Sadie Hartwell): Greek to Me Mystery Series

Joan Hess: Maggody Mystery Series

Judy La Salle: Scrooge, the Year After

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Library Lover’s Mystery Series

Meg Muldoon: Christmas River Mystery Series (first book Murder in Christmas River)

Louise Penny: Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series

Hannah Reed (aka Deb Baker): Scottish Highlands Mystery Series

Victoria Thompson: Gaslight Mystery Series

Diane Vallere: Costume Shop Mystery Series

Lea Wait: Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series

[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.

New Releases – November 28 to December 4, 2016

Here is the list of new release for November 28 to December 4!

Jane K. Cleland: The Glow of Death (This will be the 11th in the Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series.)

Kate Dyer-Seeley: First Degree Mudder (This will be the 4th in the Pacific Northwest Mystery Series.)

Karen Harper: Chasing Shadows (This will be the 1st in the NEW South Shores Mystery Series.)

Catherine Lloyd: Death Comes to the Fair (This will be the 4th in the Kurland St. Mary Mysteries.)

Rose Pressey: Haunted Is Always in Fashion (This will be the 4th in the Haunted Vintage Mystery Series.)

Sarah R. Shaber: Louise’s Lies (This will be the 6th in the Louise Pearlie Mystery Series.)

Susan Sleeman: Christmas Conspiracy (This will be the 6th in the First Responders Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Karen Rose Smith: Shades of Wrath (This will be the 6th in the Caprice De Luca Mystery Series.)

Marcia Talley: Footprints to Murder (This will be the 15th in the Hannah Ives Mystery Series.)

New Releases – November 21 to November 27, 2016

Here is the list of new release for November 21 to November 27! (No Cozies this week unfortunately, but at least a couple of non-Cozy site authors.)

Lawrence Block: Sinner Man (This will be a Stand Alone Thriller.)

James Patterson: Cross the Line (This will be the 24th in the Alex Cross Mystery Series.)

Four New-to-the-Site Cozy Authors

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

 Cindy Bell is the author of numerous series, including the Chocolate Centered Mystery Series, the Sage Gardens Mystery Series, the Dune House Mystery Series, the Heavenly Highland Inn Mystery Series, the Wendy the Wedding Planner Mystery Series, and the Bekki the Beautician Mystery Series.

 

A. Gardner is a former health care worker. She is the author of the Poppy Peters Mystery Series, starring a former ballet dancer now enrolled in a pastry academy in Georgia, and the Bison Creek Mystery Series, starring an employee at the Pinecliffe Mountain Resort.

 

 

Suzanne Trauth has been a playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She has both produced and directed stage productions, and is a former member of the theatre faculty at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. Her Cozy Mystery Series, the Dodie O’Dell Mystery Series, stars a restaurant manager who formerly lived on the Jersey Shore but now lives in the small New Jersey town of Etonville.

Christine Trent is a book enthusiast and collector who decided to begin her own fiction writing career. She is the author of the Lady of Ashes Mystery Series, starring Violet Morgan, an undertaker in Victorian London, as well as several other stand-alone historical mystery series.

I hope you enjoy all these great looking Cozy Mystery authors!

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