I’m trying something new this month >>> people have asked me several times to consider discussing books that are coming up very soon, instead of always talking about books at least a month out. So I’m going to begin making very quick posts with just the books expected to release this week.

Julia Buckley: Cheddar Off Dead (This will be the 2nd in the Undercover Dish Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): No Farm, No Foul (This will be the 1st in the Farmer’s Daughter Mystery Series.)

Margaret Coel: Winter’s Child (This will be the 20th in the Wind River Reservation Mystery Series.)

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): The Question of the Felonious Friend (This will be the 3rd in the Asperger’s Mystery Series.)

Laura DiSilverio (aka Ella Barrick & Lila Dare): Close Call (This will be a Stand Alone Mystery novel.)

Jessica Estevao (aka Jessie Crockett): Whispers Beyond the Veil(This will be the 1st in the NEW Change of Fortune Mystery Series.)

Jean Flowers (aka Margaret Grace, Ada Madison, & Camille Minichino): Cancelled by Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Postmistress Mystery Series.)

Margaret Grace (aka Camille Minichino, Ada Madison, & Jean Flowers): Matrimony in Miniature (This will be the 9th in the Miniature Mystery Series.) (This is a Wedding themed mystery.)

Sally Gunning: Monticello (This will be a Stand-Alone non-mystery.)

Nancy Haddock: Paint the Town Dead (This will be the 2nd in the Silver Six Crafty Mystery Series.)

Gemma Halliday & Kelly Rey: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Brash Blonde (This will be the 1st in the NEW Marty Hudson Mystery Series.)

Carl Hiaasen: Razor Girl (This will be a Stand Alone novel.)

Miranda James (aka Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Dean James): Digging Up the Dirt (This will be the 3rd in the Southern Ladies Mystery Series.)

J.A. Jance: Downfall (This will be the 17th in the Joanna Brady Mystery Series.)

Sofie Kelly & Sofie Ryan (aka Darlene Ryan): Two Tall Tails (This will include one Magical Cat & one Second Chance Cat stories.)

William Kent Krueger: Manitou Canyon (This will be the 15th in the Cork O’Connor Mystery Series.)

Jess Lourey: Salem’s Cipher (This will be the 1st in the NEW (non Cozy) Witch Hunter Mystery Series.)

James Patterson & Max DiLallo: 113 Minutes (This will be a Stand Alone “BookShot” – Amazon describes these as “Novels you can devour in a few hours”)

James Patterson & Andrew Holmes: Hunted (This will be a “BookShot” – Amazon describes these as “Novels you can devour in a few hours”)

Anne Perry: Revenge in a Cold River (This will be the 22nd in the William Monk Mystery Series.)

Sofie Ryan & Sofie Kelly (aka Darlene Ryan): Two Tall Tails (This will include one Magical Cat & one Second Chance Cat stories.)

Denise Swanson: Murder of a Cranky Catnapper (This will be the 19th in the Scumble River Mystery Series.)

Lea Wait: Shadows on a Morning in Maine (This will be the 8th in the Shadows Antique Print Mystery Series.)

If you’re interested in seeing a full list of upcoming Cozy Mystery releases, be sure to check the Soon to Be Released page on my site!

The following Mystery Books will be released in October 2016:

October 2016

Kathy Aarons: Behind Chocolate Bars (This will be the 3rd in the Chocolate Covered Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Victoria Abbott (aka Mary Jane Maffini & Victoria Maffini): The Hammett Hex (This will be the 5th in the Book Collector Mystery Series.)

Tasha Alexander: A Terrible Beauty (This will be the 11th in the Lady Emily Mystery Series.)

Margaret Atwood: Hag-Seed (This will a retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.)

Jenna Bennett (aka Jennie Bentley & Bente Gallagher): Scared Money (This will be the 13th in the Savannah Martin Mystery Series.)

Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber): The Witch and the Dead (This will be the 7th in the Wishcraft Mystery Series.)

Rita Mae Brown: Cakewalk (This will be the 5th in the Runnymede Series. This is not a mystery)

Catherine Bruns: Burned to a Crisp (This will be the 3rd in the Cookies & Chance Mystery Series.)

Leslie Budewitz: Killing Thyme (This will be the 3rd in the Seattle Spice Shop Mystery Series.)

D.W. Buffa: Hillary (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Maia Chance: Teetotaled (This will be the 2nd in the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery Series.)

Laura Childs & Terrie Farley Moran: Crepe Factor (This will be the 14th in the Scrapbooking Mystery Series.) (This is a Winter Holiday mystery.)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Seeds of Deception (This will be the 10th in the Orchard Mystery Series.)

Kieran Crowley: Shoot (This will be the 2nd in the F.X. Shepherd Mystery Series.)

Clive Cussler: Built to Thrill: More Classic Automobiles from Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt (This non fiction follows his “Built for Adventure” book.)

Barbara Early (aka Beverly Allen): Death of a Toy Soldier (This will be the 1st in the NEW Vintage Toy Shop Mystery Series) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Kathleen Ernst: A Memory of Muskets (This will be the 7th in the Chloe Ellefson Mystery Series.)

Sharon Farrow (aka 1/2 of D.E. Ireland): Dying for Strawberries (This will be the first in the NEW Berry Basket Mystery Series.)

Ann Granger: The Dead Woman of Deptford (This will be the 6th in the Lizzie Martin Mystery Series.)

John Grisham: The Whistler (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Charlaine Harris: All the Little Liars (This will be the 9th in the Aurora Teagarden Mystery Series.)

Carolyn Hart: Ghost Times Two (This will be the 7th in the Bailey Ruth Mystery Series.)

Veronica Heley: Murder in Style (This will be the 17th in the Ellie Quicke Mystery Series.)

Dorothy Howell: Pocketbooks and Pistols (This will be the 12th in the Haley Randolph Mysteries Mystery Series.)

Melanie Jackson: Death Drop (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

P.D. James: The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories (This will be a collection of four of the best Christmas stories that P.D. James wrote for newspapers. Two of them star a young Adam Dalgliesh.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery collection.)

Linda O. Johnston: Unlucky Charms (This will be the 3rd in the Superstition Mystery Series.)

Tonya Kappes: Get Witch or Die Trying (This will be the 3rd in the Spies and Spells Mystery Series.)

Sofie Kelly (aka Sofie Ryan): Paws and Effect (This will be the 8th in the Magical Cats Mystery Series.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Putting on the Witch (This will be the 3rd in the Retired Witches Mystery Series.)

Karen MacInerney: Fatal Frost (This will be the 2nd in the Dewberry Farm Mystery Series.)

Susan Elia MacNeal: The Queen’s Accomplice (This will be the 6th in the Maggie Hope Mystery Series.)

Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, & Barbara Ross: Egg Nog Murder (This will be a Christmas themed anthology including: Lucy Stone Mystery Series, Hayley Powell Food & Cocktail Mystery Series, & Maine Clam Bake Mystery Series.)

Ann Myers: Feliz Navidead (This will be the 3rd in the Santa Fe Café Mystery Series.)

Sandra Orchard: Another Day, Another Dali (This will be the 2nd in the Serena Jones Mystery Series.)

James Patterson: Filthy Rich (This will be a True Crime Stand Alone.  – John Connolly & Tim Malloy)

James Patterson: Kill or Be Killed (This will contain four “BookShot” – Amazon describes these as “Novels you can devour in a few hours” – previously only available as e-books.)

James Patterson & Richard DiLallo: French Kiss (This will be a Stand Alone “BookShot” – Amazon describes these as “Novels you can devour in a few hours”)

Paula Paul (aka Paula Carter): A Killer Closet (This will be the 1st in the NEW Irene Seligman Mystery Series.)

David Rosenfelt: The Twelve Dogs of Christmas (This will be the 15th in the Andy Carpenter Mystery Series.)

Alexander McCall Smith: Precious and Grace (This will be the 17th in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.)

Paige Shelton: A Christmas Tartan (This will be a Scottish Bookshop mini-mystery.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Wendy Corsi Staub: Something Buried, Something Blue (This will be the 2nd in the Lily Dale Mystery Series.)

Maggie Toussaint: Doggone It (This will be the 3rd in the Dreamwalker Mystery Series.)

Joyce Tremel: Tangled Up in a Brew (This will be the 2nd in the Brewing Trouble Mystery Series.)

Diane Vallere: Masking for Trouble (This will be the 2nd in the Costume Shop Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Lea Wait: Dangling by a Thread (This will be the 4th in the Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series.)

Lis Wiehl: The Candidate (This will be the 2nd in the Newsmakers Mystery Series.)

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If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the September 2016 Mystery Book New Releases.

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.)

Yikes! Well, it looks like I messed up a bit yesterday! I thought there were only two upcoming wedding themed Cozies coming out, but Ellen Byron was kind enough to contact me to let me know that her upcoming book, Body on the Bayou (which will be the 2nd in her Cajun Country Mystery Series) will also be a wedding-themed Cozy! In this novel, Maggie Crozat, full-time bed-and-breakfast manager and part-time sleuth will be serving as maid of honor to her co-worker Vanessa and the local police chief, Rufus Durand. (Hmmm… Rufus is getting married…) Unfortunately, tragedy will strike, as it always must in murder mysteries, when one of Vanessa’s cousins turns up dead in the bayou!

As before, if you’re looking for other great looking wedding-themed Cozy Mystery releases, you’ll find plenty if you check at the wedding theme page on my site! Wedding Themed Cozies