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Cathy Ace, Susan Furlong, Mary Marks, & Karen Rose Smith : Four New Cozy Mystery Authors on the Cozy-Mystery Site

I just added four new authors to the Cozy Mystery site. These authors had been recommended to me by other Cozy Mystery readers.

 Cathy Ace: Cait Morgan Mystery Series
Cait is a victim profiler who lives in British Columbia. She is Welsh-Canadian, and is a professor. This criminologist not only enjoys profiling, but she also enjoys food.

 Susan Furlong (aka Lucy Arlongton and Susan Furlong-Bollinger):
I already mentioned Susan Furlong to you when I told you about Ellery Adams/Jennifer Stanley and Sylvia May handing over the reigns to their Novel Idea Mystery Series. (Susan Furlong will take over as Lucy Arlington.) She currently writes the Pippi O’Brien Mystery Series, and has written several “Untreed Reads” stories, as well as was one of The Killer Wore Cranberry: A Second Helping anthology authors. She will also be writing the Georgia Peach Mystery Series.

 Karen Rose Smith: Caprice De Luca Mystery Series
Caprice De Luca was an interior decorator, before she changed professions. She is still decorating the interiors of homes, but now she is working as a home stager. Hmmm… Just what is a home stager? It’s a person who stages homes that are for sale, making them look a lot better than they originally looked. Caprice is part of a large, Italian family in Pennsylvania. Other than home stage homes and sleuth, she also rescues stray animals.

One New Holiday Mystery Book Coming in July 2014

I am going to try to write about the NEW Cozy Mystery series that Cozy Mystery authors on the site are starting, as well as the NEW Cozy Mystery holiday books that are coming out. However, I don’t have any new series to tell you about that will be beginning in July 2014. I do have one seasonal/holiday Cozy Mystery that will be released during July 2014, though.

Dawn Eastman‘s second Family Fortune Mystery is due out this July: Be Careful What You Witch For. From what I can see (remember, I don’t accept Advanced Reading Copies – so I haven’t pre-read it!) it will be a Fall Festival Cozy Mystery. (I put it on the Halloween theme list.)

The Family Fortune Mystery Series features Clytemnestra Fortune >>> Clyde for short! Clyde is an ex policewoman who has returned to her home town (Crystal Haven) in Michigan. Crystal Haven is a rather paranormal-type of town. It’s a tourist’s destination for people who want to connect with their psychic-side.

Clyde’s mom is a tarot reader, her aunt is a pet psychic, and Clyde, well, let’s just say she fits right into her family of psychically-endowed women.

July 2014 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in July 2014:

Jeff Abbott: Inside Man (This will be the 4th in the Sam Capra Thriller Series.)

Donna Andrews: The Good, the Bad, and the Emus (This will be the 17th in the Meg Langslow Mystery Series.)

Donald Bain: Margaret Truman’s Undiplomatic Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Margaret Truman’s Capital Crimes Mystery Series.)

Lorna Barrett (aka Lorraine Bartlett & L.L. Bartlett): Book Clubbed (This will be the 8th in the Booktown Mystery Series.)

Jessica Beck (aka Elizabeth Bright, Casey Mayes, Melissa Glazer, Chris Cavender, & Tim Myers): Lemony Larceny (This will be the 15th in the Donut Shop Mystery Series.)

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): A Vision in Velvet (This will be the 6th in the Witchcraft Mystery Series.)

Simon Brett: Blotto, Twinks, and the Riddle of the Sphinx (This will be the 5th in the Blotto and Twinks Mystery Series.)

Leslie Budewitz: Crime Rib (This will be the 2nd in the Food Lovers’ Village Mystery Series.)

James Lee Burke: Wayfaring Stranger (This will be a Stand Alone Thriller.)

Jan Burke: Convicted (This will be a collection of short stories.)

Lynn Cahoon: Mission to Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series.)

Laurie Cass: Tailing a Tabby (This will be the 2nd in the Bookmobile Cat Mystery Series.)

Bailey Cates (aka Cricket McRae): Some Enchanted Éclair (This will be the 4th in the Magical Bakery Mystery Series.)

Leslie Charteris: Several reprints of The Saint Mystery Series have recently been made. (I have updated the page.) This month:
Saint and the Fiction Makers
The Saint Abroad
The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace
Catch the Saint
The Saint in Trouble

Blaize & John Clement: The Cat Sitter’s Nine Lives (This will be the 9th in the Dixie HemmingwayMystery Series.)

Lesley Cookman: Murder in a Different Place (This will be the 13th in the Libby Sarjeant Murder Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Corley: Dead of Winter (This is the 5th in the Detective Chief Inspector Andrew Fenwick Mystery Series.)

Jessie Crockett: Maple Mayhem (This will be the 2nd in the Sugar Grove Mystery Series.)

Mary Daheim: Clam Wake (This will be the 28th in the Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Derby Divas (This will be the 8th in the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series.)

Lindsey Davis: Enemies at Home (This will be the 2nd in the Flavia Albia Mystery Series.)

Dawn Eastman: Be Careful What You Witch For (This will be the 2nd in the Family Fortune Mystery Series.) (This is a Fall Festival theme mystery.)

Frances Fyfield: Gold Digger (This will be a Stand Alone thriller.)

Jeanne Glidewell: Cozy Camping (This will be the 6th in the Lexie Starr Mystery Series.)

Victoria Hamilton: Muffin but Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Merry Muffin Mystery Series.)

Betty Hechtman: Silence of the Lamb’s Wool (This will be the 2nd in the Yarn Retreat Mystery Series.)

Dorothy Howell: Beach Bags and Burglaries (This will be the 9th in the Haley Randolph Mystery Series.)

Julie Hyzy: Grace Against the Clock (This will be the 5th in the Manor of Murder Mystery Series.)

J. A. Jance: Remains of Innocence (This will be the 16th in the Joanna Brady Mystery Series.)

Iris Johansen & Rou Johansen: Sight Unseen (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Diane Kelly: Death, Taxes, and Silver Spurs (This will be the 7th in the Tara Holloway Death and Taxes Mystery Series.)

Victoria Laurie: Fatal Fortune (This will be the 12th in the Psychic Eye Mystery Series.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Bewitching Boots (This will be the 7th in the Renaissance Faire Mystery Series.)

Virginia Lowell: Cookies and Scream (This will be the 5th in the Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery Series.)

Susan Elia MacNeal: The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent (This will be the 4th in the Maggie Hope Mystery Series.)

Edward Marston (aka Conrad Allen & Keith Miles): A Ticket to Oblivion (This will be the 11th in the Railway Detective Mystery Series.)

Susan McBride: Mad as Helen (This will be the 2nd in the River Road Mystery Series.)

Lorena McCourtney: Death Takes a Ride (This will be the 3rd in the Cate Kinkaid Files Mystery Series.)

Marcia Muller: The Night Searchers (This will be the 31st in the Sharon McCone Mystery Series.)

Tamar Myers: The Death of Pie (This will be the 19th in the Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery Series.)

Joyce Carol Oates: American Appetites (This is a Stand Alone reprint.)

Richard North Patterson: Eden in Winter (This will be the 3rd in the Martha’s Vineyard Mystery Series.)

Delia Rosen: To Kill a Matzo Ball (This will be the 5th in the Deadly Deli Mystery Series.)

David Rosenfelt: Hounded (This will be the 12th in the Andy Carpenter Mystery Series.)

Connie Shelton: Sweet Somethings (This will be the 9th in the Samantha Sweet Mystery Series.)

Wendy Corsi Staub: The Perfect Stranger (This will be as Stand Alone thriller.)

Aimée Thurlo: Undercover Warrior (This will be a Harlequin Intrigue mystery.)

Charles Todd: The Maharani’s Pearls (This will be a novella that follows book #5 in the Bess Crawford Mystery Series.)

Peter Tremayne: Atonement of Blood (This will be the 24th in the Sister Fidelma Mystery Series.)

Heather Webber (aka Heather Blake): Undeniably Yours (This will be the in the 5th in the Lucy Valentine Mystery Series.)

Jacqueline Winspear: The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War (This is not a mystery book.)

Nina Wright: Whiskey, Large (This will be the 7th in the Whiskey Mattimoe Mystery Series.)

To go back to the Cozy Mystery New Book Release page, click here.

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

“Cozy Food: 128 Cozy Mystery Writers Share Their Favorite Recipes”

Nancy Lynn Jarvis is the editor of a brand new cookbook called Cozy Food: 128 Cozy Mystery Writers Share Their Favorite Recipes. Cozy Food was published earlier this month, and has 220 recipes from 128 mystery authors. There are Italian, Australian, English, and North American recipes. There are even gluten-free and vegetarian recipes, as well as some pet treats.

Cozy Food has recipes from many Cozy Mystery authors who are found on the Cozy Mystery site. Just to name a few: Ellery Adams, Donna Andrews, Mignon F. Ballard, Juliet Blackwell, Duffy Brown, Mollie Bryan, Shelley Costa, Carola Dunn, Monica Ferris, Sally Goldenbaum, Carolyn Haines, Miranda James, Camille Minichino, Tamar Myers, Nancy J. Parra, Ann Purser, Melissa Bourbon Ramirez, and Elaine Viets. The list is a veritable Who’s Who of Cozy Mystery writing!

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