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New Releases – July 24 to July 30, 2017

Here is the list of new release for July 24 to July 30!

Allyson K. Abbott (aka Annelise Ryan & Beth Amos): A Toast to Murder (This will be the 5th in the Mack’s Bar Mystery Series. This is a New Year’s Eve mystery.)

Laurie Cass (aka Laura Alden): Wrong Side of the Paw (This will be the 6th in the Bookmobile Cat Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Camp Carter (This will be the 25th in the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series.)

Linda Fairstein: Deadfall (This will be the 19th in the non-Cozy Alexandra Cooper Series.)

Jean Flowers (aka Camille Minichino, Margaret Grace, & Ada Madison): Addressed to Kill (This will be the 3rd in the Postmistress Mystery Series.) (This will be a Valentine’s Day mystery.)

Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper & Donna Lea Simpson): Muffin to Fear (This will be the in the Merry Muffin Mystery Series.)

Joan Hess (aka Joan Hadley) & Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Michaels & Barbara Mertz) & : The Painted Queen(This will be the 20th in the Amelia Peabody Mystery Series.)

Mary Marks: Knot What You Think (This will be the 5th in the Martha Rose Quilting Mystery Series.)

Alyssa Maxwell: Murder at Chateau sur Mer (This will be the 5th in the Gilded Newport Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Michaels & Barbara Mertz) & Joan Hess (aka Joan Hadley): The Painted Queen(This will be the 20th in the Amelia Peabody Mystery Series.)

Peter Tremayne: Penance of the Damned (This will be the 27th in the Mystery of Ancient Ireland Mystery Series.)

Elaine Viets: Fire and Ashes (This will be the 2nd in the non-Cozy Death Investigator Mystery Series.)

New Releases – July 17 to July 23, 2017

Here is the list of new release for July 17 to July 23!

Jeff Abbott: Blame (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Lynn Cahoon: Killer Party (This will be the 9th in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series.)

Mary Feliz: Dead Storage (This will be the 3rd in the Maggie McDonald Mystery Series.)

Diana Orgain: I Wanda Put a Spell on You (This will be the 2nd in the iWitch Mystery Series.)

Two New Cozy Holiday Releases Coming August 2017

Two new holiday themed Cozies will be released in August 2017, both Halloween themed.

First, Isis Crawford will be releasing A Catered Costume Party, the 13th in the Mystery with Recipes Mystery Series. Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are catering a Halloween party for Darius Witherspoon whose wife has recently disappeared. Needless to say, Darius’s corpse turning up at the party wasn’t intended to be part of the party. And it’s even more surprising when a note is found left behind by the deceased, leaving a sum of money and asking that they “do something” if anything happened to him. Isis Crawford also writes the Robin Light Mystery Series under the name Barbara Block.

The other Halloween Cozy will be the Carol J. Perry‘s Grave Errors, the 5th in the Witch City Mystery Series. Residents of Salem, Massachusetts, no doubt have a complicated relationship with Halloween. It won’t be any easier this year, when a corpse is unexpectedly exhumed from its eternal rest in the local graveyard. Lee Barrett, local reporter, will need to get to the bottom of this closed case before it escalates into a more serious crime.

If you want to see more Halloween themed Cozies, be sure to check out their theme page:

Halloween themed Cozies

Three New Cozy Mystery Series Coming August 2017

August will be a good month for Cozy Mystery lovers – there will be three new series debuting by site authors!

 Amanda Flower will be releasing Assaulted Caramel, the first entry in her Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series. When Bailey King returns from her career in New York City to her hometown of Harvest, Ohio, having heard that her grandfather’s heart condition has worsened, she’s reassured to learn that the situation isn’t as grave as she had heard. However, she isn’t reassured to discover a dead developer in the candy shop kitchen – and her grandfather’s knife sticking from the corpse. Bailey will need to get to the bottom of this dastardly crime to make sure that her grandfather stays out of jail. Amanda Flower also writes the Magical Bookshop Mystery Series, the Living History Museum Mystery Series, the Appleseed Creek Mystery Series, the Andi Boggs Mystery Series (intended for children), and (as Isabella Alan) the Amish Quilt Shop Mystery Series.

 Cate Conte will be putting out the first in the new Cat Cafe Mystery Series, which will be starting with Cat About Town. When Maddie James visits Daybreak Island in Massachusetts, a stray orange tabby inspires her to open a cat cafe. Unfortunately, the precocious tabby also locates a corpse in quick order, and outsider Maddie will need to act fast to ensure that she isn’t held responsible for a murder that she didn’t commit. As Liz Mugavero, Cate Conte also writes the Pawsitively Organic Mystery Series, starring an ex-public relations executive in small town Connecticut.

Finally, E. J. Copperman will be releasing Dog Dish of Doom, the first entry in his An Agent to the Paws Mystery Series. Kay Powell, professional agent, is looking for a new star client – and she may have found one in a dog! The biggest problem with client Bruno is his owners, Trent and Louise – a problem that isn’t exactly reduced when Trent turns up face down in Bruno’s water dish. Kay feels protective to her clients, and will do whatever it takes to figure out who did this to her client’s owner. E. J. Copperman also writes the Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series, the Mysterious Detective Mystery Series, the Asperger’s Mystery Series, and, as Jeffrey Cohen, the Aaron Tucker Mystery Series and the Double Feature Mystery Series.

For these upcoming series and more be sure to check out the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page.

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