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March 2012 Mystery Book New Releases

February 8, 2012

The following Mystery Books will be released in March 2012:

Susan Wittig Albert: Cat’s Claw (This will be the 20th in the China Bayles Mystery Series. This will be the 1st in the NEW Pecan Springs Mystery Series…)

Marian Babson: No Cooperation from the Cat (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Rhys Bowen: Hush Now, Don’t You Cry (This will be the 12th in the Molly Murphy Mystery Series…)

Rita Mae Brown: The Big Cat Nap: The 20th Anniversary Mrs. Murphy Mystery (This will be the 20th in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series…) (Actually, April 3…)

Anne Canadeo (aka Katherine Spencer): Till Death Do Us Purl (This will be the 4th in the Black Sheep Knitting Mystery Series…)

C. S. Challinor: Murder of the Bride (This will be the 5th in the Rex Graves Mystery Series…)

Laura Childs: Agony of the Leaves (This will be then 13th in the Tea Shop Mystery Series…)

Jane K. Cleland: Dolled Up for Murder (This will be the 7th in the Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series…)

Harlan Coben: Stay Close (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Fire Engine Dead (This will be the 3rd in the Museum Mystery Series…)

Clive Cussler & Justin Scott: The Thief (This will be the 5th in the Isaac Bell Mystery Series…)

Lindsey Davis: Falco: The Official Companion (This is what the title says…)

Kate Ellis: The Cadaver Game (This will be the 16th in the Wesley Peterson Mystery Series…)

Mary Anna Evans: Plunder (This will be the 7th in the Faye Longchamp Mystery Series…)

Christopher Fowler: The Memory of Blood (This will be the 9th in the Bryant & May Mystery Series…)

Kerry Greenwood: Cooking the Books (This will be the 6th in the Corinna Chapman Mystery Series…)

Jane Haddam: Blood in the Water (This will be the 27th in the Gregor Demarkian Mystery Series…)

Rebecca M. Hale: Adrift on St. John (This will be the 1st in the NEW Mystery in the Islands Mystery Series…)

Gemma Halliday: Play Nice (This will be the 1st in the NEW Anna Smith & Nick Dade Mystery Series…)

Veronica Heley: False Report (This will be the 6th in the Abbot Agency Mystery Series…)

Victoria Houston: Dead Tease (This will be the 12th in the Loon Lake Fishing Mystery Series…)

Jonnie Jacobs: Paradise Falls (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Jonathan Kellerman: Victims (This will be the 27th in the Alex Delaware Mystery Series…)

Jess Lourey: November Hunt (This will be the 7th in the Murder-by-Month Msytery Series…)

Ada Madison (aka Camille Minichino & Margaret Grace): The Probability of Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Professor Sofie Knowles Mystery Series…)

Judi McCoy: Fashion Faux Paw (This will be the 6th in the Dog Walker Mystery Series…)

G. A. McKevett: Buried in Buttercream (This will be the 17th in the Savannah Reid Mystery Series…)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Lucy Lawrence): Due or Die (This will be the 2nd in the Library Lover’s Mystery Series…)

Sharon Pape: Sketch a Falling Star (This will be the 3rd in the Portrait of Crime Mystery Series…)

James Patterson & David Ellis: Guilty Wives (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Richard North Patterson: Fall from Grace (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Thomas Perry: Poison Flower (This will be the 7th in the Jane Whitefield Mystery Series…)

Denise Swanson: Little Shop of Homicide (This will be the 1st in the NEW  Devereaux’s Dime Store Mystery Series…)

Maggie Toussaint: Death Island Style (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Jacqueline Winspear: Elegy for Eddie (This will be the 9th in the Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series…)

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Joan Hess : Maggody Mystery Series & Claire Malloy Mystery Series

January 16, 2012

When I started getting the information together to make up the February 2012 Mystery Book New Releases list, I was VERY happy to see that Claire Malloy is “coming back” after a four year hiatus. Yahoo!

I have “been with” Claire since… some time in the 1980s. That’s a doggone long time! I started thinking about just how much time I’ve been a follower of Joan Hess… Good grief! Almost thirty years!!!

I started with Joan Hess when she was known as Joan Hadley. I read both of her Theo Bloomer mystery books. I then jumped over to her Maggody Mystery Series. I enjoyed Arly, Ruby Bee, Delia, Kevin Buchanan, Jim-Bob Buchanan and his wife (who happens to be a Buchanan-Buchanan!) so much that I started recommending them to my Cozy Mystery friends.

I “felt at home” in the small Arkansas town, and loved its citizens. (I don’t know what that says about me!) Arly seemed to be the only voice of reason in the entire town of Maggody. As the sheriff, Arly had to contend with moon shine, an interfering mother, a mayor who was shady (at best!) a mayor’s wife who thought of herself as blue-blood royalty, and a slew of other rather UNconventional characters.

Let me take a moment to remind some of you of something I have found to be true for me most of the time. I have talked before about how I usually like only one series by an author. I usually find that I’ll like an author’s one series so much that their second or third (even fourth and fifth series!) will  usually seem lacking to me… weak. So, it took me a while to finally try Joan Hess’ Claire Malloy Mystery Series. I didn’t think there was any way I could enjoy Claire as much as I enjoyed reading about Arly’s adventures in Maggody. Boy, was I wrong! Not only did I like the Claire Malloy Mystery Series as much as the Maggody Mystery Series, I actually grew to like it even more!

So, while I was glad in 2010 when the next of Joan Hess’ Maggody mystery books was published (The Merry Wives of Maggody) after four long years  – I have been made even happier becoming aware of the fact that Joan Hess is finally publishing the  new Claire Malloy mystery book next month – Deader Homes & Gardens – after a long four year absence.

So to all of you I say Yahoo! Those of us who follow both of Joan Hess’ Cozy Mystery series have some really good reading ahead of us, and… if anyone knows Joan Hess… please pass on my sentiments: I love your mystery books, but I sure do wish you would write ’em faster!

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Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations – January 2012

January 12, 2012

With this being the first month of a new year, I thought it would be a perfect time to add a new page to the Cozy Mystery site. The new page will be called Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations. It is my intention to devote one entry a month to asking you all what Cozy Mystery book you are currently reading. I’ll be posting the month’s initial blog entry with your Cozy Mystery recommendations on this page.

I hope that since you are reading the Cozy Mystery book, that means you are enjoying it… so that you will have good things to say about the book and its author. This way, the rest of us can get a feeling as to whether we would like to try your current book’s author.  I don’t want this page to become a “gripe session” about authors we don’t like. (Believe me, I have quite a few authors who I don’t like!)

I get several letters a month asking for me to recommend Cozy Mystery authors to readers of the site. I received a letter this month asking if I would add other Cozy Mystery readers’ recommendations. It is high time that you all have the opportunity to recommend some of your favorite authors!

So >>> What Cozy Mystery book are you reading, and why are you enjoying it?

I have decided to go ahead and try to list all of the authors some of you are reading this month –  who you think would be good new-to-me authors for other Cozy Mystery readers. However, I would encourage you to read the comments below to find out why we are reading these authors!

January 2012:

Donna Andrews: Meg Lanslow “Bird” Mystery Series

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series

Lorna Barrett: Booktown Mystery Series

Ella Barrick: Ballroom Dance Mystery Series

Stephanie Barron: Jane Austen Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton: Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series

Simon Brett: Fethering Mystery Series AND Mrs. Pargeter Mystery Series

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series

Anne Canadeo: Black Sheep Knitting Mystery Series

JoAnna Carl: Chocoholic Mystery Series

Elizabeth Lynn Casey: Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series

Laura Childs: Tea Shop Mystery Series AND Cackelberry Club Mystery Series AND Scrapbooking Mystery Series

Joanne Clarey: Hummingbird Falls Mystery Series

Carol Higgins Clark: Regan Reilley Mystery Series

Blaize Clement: Dixie Hemingway “Pet Sitter” Mystery Series

Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series

Cleo Coyle: Coffee House Mystery Series

Edmund Crispin: Gervase Fenn Mystery Series

Amanda Cross: Kate Fansler Mystery Series

Mary Daheim: Emma Lord “Alpine” Mystery Series

Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin Mystery Series AND Hilda Johansson Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Domestic Diva Mystery Series

Jo Dereske: Miss Zukas Mystery Series

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Penny Brannigan Mystery Series

Carola Dunn: Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series

Kaitlyn Dunnett: Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series

Charles Finch: Charles Lennox Mystery Series

Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swensen “Cookie Jar” Mystery Series

Anne George: Southern Sisters Mystery Series

Dorothy Gillman: Mrs. Pollifax Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher Mystery Series AND Corinna Chapman Mystery Series

Guppy Chapter of Sisters in Crime National Organization: Fish Tales:  The Guppy Anthology (Ramona DeFelice Long, editor)

Parnell Hall: Puzzle Lady Mystery Series

Carolyn Hart: Henrie O Mystery Series AND Death on Demand Mystery Series

Veronica Heley: Ellie Quicke Mystery Series AND Abbott Agency Mystery Series

Julie Hyzy: White House Chef Mystery Series AND Manor of Murder Mystery Series

Miranda James: Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series

Tracy Kiely: Elizabeth Parker Mystery Series

Diana Killian: Mantra for Murder Mystery Series

Emma Lathen: Wall Street Mystery Series

Amanda Lee: Embroidery Mystery Series

Donna Leon: Guido Brunetti Mystery Series

Rett MacPherson: Torie O’Shea Mystery Series

Margaret Maron: Deborah Knott Mystery Series

Allana Martin: Texana Jones Death of a *** Mystery Series

Francine Mathews: Nantucket Mystery Series

Lorena McCourtney: Ivy Malone Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay: Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series

Amy Patricia Meade: Pret’ Near Perfect Mystery Series

Leslie Meier: Lucy Stone Mystery Series

Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Joe Grey Cat Mystery Series

Tim Myers: Soapmaking Mystery Series

Leslie O’Kane: Allie Babcock Mystery Serie

Louise Penny: Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series

Elizabeth Peters: Amelia Peabody Mystery Series AND Vicky Bliss Mystery Series

Hannah Reed: Beekeeping Mystery Series

Elliott Roosevelt: Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery Series

Mark Schweizer: Liturgical Mystery Series

Maggie Sefton: Knitting Mystery Series

Paige Shelton: Farmers’ Market Mystery Series

Joanna Campbell Slan: Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mystery Series

Patricia Sprinkle: Family Tree Mystery Series

Dana Stabenow: Kate Shugak Mystery Series

Elaine Viets: Dead-End Job Mystery Series

Jill Paton Walsh: Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane Mystery Series

Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series

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Sharon Love Cook, Lesley A. Diehl, William Doonan, & Annelise Ryan (aka Beth Amos) : Four Author Additions to the Cozy Mystery Site

January 5, 2012

I have added four new (to me!) authors to the site. I know I keep repeating this, but I want to remind you, these authors have been recommended as belonging on the Cozy Mystery site by some of you.

Sharon Love Cook writes the Rose McNichols Mystery Series, which features a newspaper reporter in a coastal village in New Hampshire.  Cook is also a newspaper columnist, who is an illustrator as well as a cartoonist.

Lesley A. Diehl has her Ph. D. in psychology, and has worked as both a professor and a university administrator. Diehl pens the Microbrewers Mystery Series, which features a master brewer as its sleuth. She also writes the Big Lake Mystery Series, which has as its sleuth, Emily Rhodes, a retired preschool teacher who takes up bartending (and sleuthing!) in Florida.

William Doonan is an anthropology professor who has worked as a cruise ship lecturer many times. Doonan writes the Henry Grave Mystery Series, which features an octogenarian who works as a senior cruise ship investigator.

Annelise Ryan (aka Beth Amos) is an emergency room nurse who writes a mystery series which revolves around an ex-nurse. The Mattie Winston Mystery Series is set in Wisconsin, and has her ex-nurse now working as a deputy coroner.

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