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Three New Cozy Holiday Releases Coming May 2017

We will have three new Cozy Mystery Series beginning in May 2017.

The first series will be Vanetta Chapman‘s Amish Bishop Mystery Series, which will be starting with What the Bishop Saw. When Amish bishop Henry Lapp arrives at the site of a fire that has left another Amish man dead, he quickly discovers that this fire was no accident, and he will need to use his special power to help determine who truly committed the crime. Vanetta Chapman also writes the Amish Village Mystery Series, the Jacobs Family Mystery Series, and the Shipshewana Amish Quilt Shop Mystery Series.

Next, Meg Macy will be releasing Bearly Departed, the first in her Teddy Bear Mystery Series. Sasha Silverman is the manager of a family owned teddy bear factory in small town Silver Hollow. When a pushy sales representative turns up dead in her factory, she’ll need to solve the case to maintain the wholesome image of her family-friendly business… and possibly to avoid jail herself! Meg Macy is also half of the writing team that writes under the pen name D. E. Ireland (the other being Sharon Farrow), under which they write the Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins Mystery Series.

Finally will be Kathi Daley will be starting her Writer’s Retreat Southern Mystery Series with First Case. When one of the survivors of a tragic massacre is killed exactly 11 years later, reporter Jillian Hanford is given the task of writing a human interest story on her life and sudden death. What is initially a simple assignment quickly becomes a more serious affair when Jillian realizes that she has a real chance of solving the case herself, if she can enlist the help of five writers at a retreat on the island. Kathi Daley is the author of multiple other series, including (but not limited to!) the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series, the TJ Jensen Paradise Lake Mystery Series, and the Whales and Tails Mystery Series.

For more upcoming new Cozy Mystery Series, visit this page on my site:

New Cozy Mystery Series

New Releases – April 3 to April 9, 2017

Here is the list of new release for April 3 to April 9!

Susan Wittig Albert (aka 1/2 of Robin Paige): The Last Chance Olive Ranch (This will be the 25th in the China Bayles Mystery Series.)

P F Chisholm: A Clash of Spheres (This will be the 8th in the Sir Robert Carey Mystery Series.)

Mary Higgins Clark: All By Myself Alone (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Marla Cooper: Dying on the Vine (This will be the 2nd in the Destination Wedding Mystery Series.)

B.B. Haywood: Town in a Maple Madness (This will be the 8th in the Candy Holliday Mystery Series.)

Tonya Kappes: Southern Fried (This will be the 2nd in the Kenni Lowry Mystery Series.)

Gayle Leeson (aka Amanda Lee & Gayle Trent): Silence of the Jams (This will be the 2nd in the Down South Café Mystery Series.) (This will be a Fourth of July themed mystery.)

Donna Leon: Earthly Remains (This will be the 26th in the Guido Brunetti Mystery Series.)

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Called to Justice (This will be the 2nd in the Quaker Midwife Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Caramel Crush (This will be the 9th in the Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series.)

James Patterson: Night Sniper (This will be a BookShots short story or novella.)

Ann B. Ross: Miss Julia Weathers the Storm (This will be the 19th in the Miss Julia Mystery Series.)

Paige Shelton: Of Books and Bagpipes (This will be the 2nd in the Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series.)

May 2017 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in May 2017:

May 2017

Ellery Adams: Killer Characters (This will be the 8th in the Books by the Bay Mystery Series.)

Mary Kay Andrews: The Beach House Cookbook (This will be a cook book.)

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity and the Widow’s Curse (This will be the 22nd in the Aunt Dimity Mystery Series.)

Kathleen Bridge: Ghostal Living (This will be the 3rd in the Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery Series.)

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Rights a Wrong (This will be the 35th in the Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series.)

Rita Mae Brown: A Hiss Before Dying (This will be the 26th in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series.)

Julia Buckley: Death in Dark Blue (This will be the 2nd in the Writer’s Apprentice Mystery Series.)

Lyn Cahoon: Hospitality and Homicide (This will be the 8th in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series.)

Bailey Cattrell (aka Bailey Cates & Cricket McRae): Nightshade for Warning (This will be the 2nd in the Enchanted Garden Mystery Series.)

Vannetta Chapman: What the Bishop Saw (This will be the 1st in the NEW Amish Bishop Mystery Series.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Dead and Berried (This will be the 3rd in the Cranberry Cove Mystery Series.)

Kate Collins: Yews with Caution (This will be the 19th in the Flower Shop Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: First Case (This will be the 1st in the NEW Writer’s Retreat Southern Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Murder is for Keeps (This will be the 8th in the Penny Brannigan Mystery Series.)

Vickie Fee: One Fete in the Grave (This will be the 3rd in the Liv and Di In Dixie Mystery Series.) (This is a Fourth of July mystery.)

Carolyn Haines: Sticks and Bones (This will be the 18th in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series. This will be a New Year’s Eve mystery.)

Carolyn Hart: Walking on My Grave (This will be the 26th in the Death on Demand Mystery Series.)

Karen MacInerney: Mother’s Little Helper (This will be the 3rd in the Margie Peterson Mystery Series.)

Meg Macy: Bearly Departed (This will be the 1st in the NEW Teddy Bear Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): About a Dog (This is not a mystery. It is a Contemporary Romance novel.)

Victoria Thompson: Murder in the Bowery (This will be the 20th in the Gaslight Mystery Series.)

You can find these and many more Cozies scheduled for release soon on the Soon to be Released Mysteries page on my site.

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

New Releases – March 27 to April 2, 2017

Here is the list of new release for March 27 to April 2!

Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): When the Grits Hit the Fan (This will be the 3rd in the Country Store Mystery Series.)

Veronica Heley: False Fire (This will be the 11th in the Abbot Agency Mystery Series.)

Emma Miller: Plain Missing (This will be the 4th in the Amish Mystery Series.)

Carla Neggers: Red Clover Inn (This will be the 7th in the non mystery Swift River Valley series.)

James Patterson & David Ellis: The Black Book (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Sara Rosett: Mother’s Day, Muffins, and Murder (This will be the 10th in the Ellie Avery Mystery Series.) (This will be a Mother’s Day themed mystery.)

Clea Simon: As Dark As My Fur (This will be the 2nd in the Blackie and Care Mystery Series.)

Wendy Corsi Staub: Bone White (This will be the 3rd in the Mundy’s Landing Mystery Series.)

Lea Wait: Tightening the Threads (This will be the 5th in the Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series.)

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