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September 2009 Mystery Book New Releases…

The following mystery books will be released in September 2009:

Susan Wittig Albert: The Tale of Applebeck Orchard (This will be the 6th in The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mystery Series…)

Sarah Atwell (aka Sheila Connolly): Snake in the Glass (This will be the 3rd in the Glassblowing Mystery Series…)

Nevada Barr: 13 1/2 (This will be a Stand Alone….)

Stephanie Barron (aka Francine Mathews): The White Garden (This will be a Stand Alone…)

M. C. Beaton: There Goes the Bride (This will be the 20th in the Agatha Raisin Mystery Series…)

Claudia Bishop: A Plateful of Murder (This will include the first two mysteries in the Hemlock Falls Mystery Series…)

Mindy Starns Clark: Under the Cajun Moon (This will be a Stand Alone Southern Gothic Mystery…)

Ann Cleeves: Red Bones (This will be the 3rd in the Shetland Island Quartet…)

Margaret Coel: The Silent Spirit (This will be the 14th in the Wind River Mystery Series…)

Susan Rogers Cooper: Rude Awakening (This will be the 10th in the Milt Kovak Mystery Series…)

Clive Cussler (editor): Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can’t Put Down (This will be an Anthology…)

Clive Cussler w/Grant Blackwood: Spartan Gold (This will be the 1st in the NEW Sam & Remi Fargo Adventure Mystery Series…)

Carola Dunn: Sheer Folly (This will be the 18th in the Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series…)

Kaitlyn Dunnett (aka Kathy Lynn Emerson): A Wee Christmas Homicide (This will be the 3rd in the Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series…)

Aaron Elkins: Skull Duggery (This will be the 16th in the Gideon Oliver Mystery Series…)

Janet Evanovich: Between the Plums (This will include 3 of the Stephanie Plum holiday mystery books: Visions of Sugar Plums, Plum Lovin’ and Plum Lucky…)

Joanne Fluke: Plum Pudding Murder (This will be the 12th in the Hannah Swensen Cookie Jar Mystery Series…) (This will be a Christmas-themed mystery book…)

Charlaine Harris: Sookie Stackhouse 8-Copy Boxed Set (This will include the first 8 Sookie Stackhouse Books…)

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles: The Fourth Bill Slider Omnibus (This will contain Gone Tomorrow & Dear Departed…)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Ghost à la Mode (This will be the 1st in the NEW Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Series…)

Jonathan Kellerman: True Detectives (This will be the 24th in the Alex Delaware Mystery Series…)

Tracy Kiely: Murder at the Longbourne  (This will be the 1st in the  NEW Elizabeth Parker Mystery Series…)

William Krueger: Heaven’s Keep (This will be the 9th in the Cork O’Connor Mystery Series…)

John J. Lamb: The Treacherous Teddy (This will be the 5th in the Bear Collector’s Mystery Series…)

Victoria Laurie: Doom with a View (This will be the 7th in the Psychic Eye Mystery Series…)

Joyce & Jim Lavene: Ghastly Glass (This will be the 2nd in the Renaissance Faire Mystery Series…) (This will be a Halloween-themed mystery book…)

Kathryn Lilley: Makeovers Can Be Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Fat City Mystery Series…)

Jess Lourey: September Fair (This will be the 5th in the Murder by Month Mystery Series…)

Debbie Macomber: 92 Pacific Boulevard (This will be the 9th in the Cedar Cove Series…) (Actually August 25…) (Not a mystery book…)

Beverle Graves Myers: Her Deadly Mischief (This will be 5th in the Baroque Mystery Series…)

Clare O’Donohue: A Drunkard’s Path (This will be the 2nd in the Someday Quilts Mystery Series…)

Sara Paretsky: Hardball (This will be the 14th in the V.I. Warshawski Mystery Series…)

James Patterson w/Martin Dugard: The Murder of King Tut (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Richard North Patterson: The Spire (This will be a Stand Alone….)

Louise Penny: The Brutal Telling (This will be the 5th in the Armand Gamache Mystery Series…)

Alexander McCall Smith: The Lost Art of Gratitude (This will be the 6th in the Isabel Dalhousie Series…)

Livia J. Washburn: Killer Crab Cakes (This will be the 4th in the Fresh-Baked Mystery Series…)

Sharon Wildwind: Missing, Presumed Wed (This will be the 4th in the Pepperhawk/Avivah Rosen Mystery Series…)

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Hmmm… Does Anyone Know What’s Happening with Lilian Jackson Braun’s The Cat Who ***

I have received e-mails from several Cozy Mystery site readers asking if I know when the latest Lilian Jackson Braun The Cat Who *** mystery will be released. I am always sorry when I am not able to track down information… and this is a case that has stumped me.

When I got my first e-mail asking for this information, I wrote to her publishing company. But (wouldn’t you know it?) I never even received an auto-response form letter telling me they got my letter. This brings me to the reason for this entry:

Do any of you know if they plan to release the latest (The Cat Who Smelled Smoke) in Braun’s series?  OR  Is The Cat Who Had Sixty Whiskers the last in Braun’s Cozy Mystery Series? If it is, I know that there are a lot of Braun’s fans who will be very saddened by this information.

So, if you have any information on the latest in the mystery of Braun’s mystery, please send us a comment!

PS >>>> My husband just did an online search for Lilian Jackson Braun and told me that he found that she was born in 1913 >>> Unfortunately, we can’t find a way to verify this information since the Detroit News (newspaper) no longer has the interview on file…

PS#2>>>> I just posted this very short entry to let people know about Lilian Jackson Braun’s passing away.

A Blast from the Past: Four New Authors to the Cozy Mystery Book Site… Torrey Chanslor, Margaret Erskine, Phoebe Atwood Taylor, and Josephine Tey

Every once in a while I get recommendations (from the Cozy Mystery site readers) that really take me back! I decided to try to “save up” until I had four authors who I could post together… for those of you who remember them fondly.

Torrey Chanslor (aka Marjorie Torrey, Caldecott Winner): Beagle Sisters Mystery Series… Amanda and Lutie Beagle are spinster sisters who inherit a Manhattan detective agency. 

Margaret Erskine: Septimus Finch Mystery Series… Septimus is in the Scotland Yard CID (Criminal Investigations Department) and as such, is a plain clothes police detective.

Phoebe Atwood Taylor (aka Alice Tilton & Freeman Dana): Asey Mayo Mystery Series… Asey is a Boston sleuth who relies heavily on his cousin who happens to be a big gossip AND Leonidas Witherall Mystery Series (as Alice Tilton), which is also set in Boston and features an ex-teacher sleuth.

Josephine Tey: Alan Grant Mystery Series… Alan Grant is an inspector with the Scotland Yard.

Barbara Bretton, Anne Canadeo, Elizabeth Lynn Casey & Elise Hyatt : Four New Authors to the Cozy Mystery Site…

It seems like there is a little something extra for almost everyone this time! I am adding four authors to the Cozy Mystery site, and if you’re a knitter, sewer, journalist, furniture restorer, live in Massachusetts, South Carolina, New Jersey or Vermont… or just like to read mysteries, then you just might enjoy one (or more!) of the following authors who were recommended for me to add to the site:

Barbara Bretton: Chloe Hobbs’ Paranormal Mystery Series… Chloe is the proud owner of Sticks and Strings Knitting Shop in Vermont and happens to be 1/2 human and 1/2 sorceress.

Anne Canadeo (aka Katherine Spencer): Black Sheep Knitting Mystery Series… Maggie Messina is the owner of this knitting shop and does her sleuthing in Massachusetts. As Katherine Spencer she co-authors the Cape Light Series (non-mystery) with Thomas Kinkade.

Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series… Tori Sinclair is a sleuthing librarian who is also a member of this particular sewing circle in South Carolina.  As Bradford she writes the Jenkins & Burns Mystery Series which features a detective and a reporter based in New Jersey.

Elise Hyatt: Daring Finds Mystery Series… Dyce Dare owns a furniture refinishing business. As a bonus, furniture refinishing tips are included in the mysteries.

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