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A Third New Cozy Mystery Wedding Themed Book Coming September 2016

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

Two New Cozy Mystery Wedding Themed Books Coming September 2016

Normally I only highlight upcoming new series and and holiday-themed Cozy Mystery releases, but this month I’ve also decided to discuss two additional upcoming Cozy Mystery releases scheduled for September… because both are wedding themed! And I know that a lot of site visitors love their wedding themed Cozies!

The first release up will be Margaret Grace‘s Matrimony in Miniature, the 9th in her Miniature Mystery Series.  There’s a highly anticipated wedding taking place, but unfortunately, a murder has just taken occurred in the venue! Gerry and granddaughter Maddie will need to get to the bottom of this unexpected death if the wedding is to take place in its proper location. Margaret Grace also writes the Postmistress Mystery Series (under the name Jean Flowers), the Periodic Table Mystery Series (under the name Camille Minichino), and the Sophie Knowles Mystery Series (under the name Ada Madison).

The other wedding-themed Cozy Mystery release for September will be Lethal Lifestyles, the 6th in LynDee Walker‘s Headlines in Heels Mystery Series. In this entry, reporter Nichelle Clark is acting as maid of honor in a friend’s wedding when a corpse becomes an unexpected guest at the rehearsal weekend. She’ll need to work fast to uncover the complicated history between the deceased and the groom-to-be if she’s going to salvage this happy union!

If you’re interested in seeing other great looking wedding-themed Cozy Mystery releases, be sure to check out the wedding theme page on my site! Wedding Themed Cozies

Five New Cozy Mystery Holiday Books Coming September 2016

Those of you who have been with me for a while know I absolutely love holiday themed Cozies! September will have only one new Cozy Mystery series starting up, but it will have a good number of Cozy holiday themed releases! We’ll have five holiday themed mysteries >>> two for Halloween, three for Christmas! (Is “Yow-zee! ” too big a word to describe how happy I am to see so many holiday themed Cozies?)

The first Halloween themed mystery for September will be Vickie Fee‘s It’s Your Party, Die if You Want To, the 2nd in the Liv and Di In Dixie Mystery Series. Dixie, Tennessee, located party planner Liv McKay is very busy this Halloween preparing for two different themed parties as well as locating a dead body in the local cemetery. Liv will need to solve the mystery quickly if she wants to keep her own business afloat and enjoy the spooky holiday season!

The other new Halloween Cozy mystery will be A Charming Voodoo, the 10th in Tonya Kappes‘s Magical Cures Mystery Series. June Heals’s town of Whispering Falls is experiencing something of a boom, with new housing developments and businesses moving to the quaint town, but this is threatened when a body is discovered in a local pumpkin patch hours before it is planned to open for hayrides! Can June solve this crime before it scares off all the newcomers? Tonya Kappes also writes the Ghostly Southern Mystery Series, the Divorced Diva Mystery Series, and the Spies and Spells Mystery Series.

On to Christmas Cozy releases! Julia Buckley will be releasing Cheddar Off Dead, the 2nd in the Undercover Dish Mystery Series. Caterer Lilah Drake is hoping for a fun and uneventful holiday season, but her plans are interrupted by the discovery of the body of a mall Santa in a parking lot. (Mall Santa sure does seem to be a dangerous job >>> at least according to Cozies!) Julia Buckley also writes the Writer’s Apprentice Mystery Series and the Madeline Mann Mystery Series.

 Joanne Fluke will be putting out the 20th in the Hannah Swensen Mystery Series, Christmas Caramel Murder. Hannah’s friend Lisa’s husband will be playing Santa (look out!), which wouldn’t necessarily be a problem except his former girlfriend will be playing Mrs. Claus. When the prospective Mrs. Claus turns up dead, Hannah will need to work fast to keep her friend’s husband out of jail – and clear his name before the festivities begin!

Last on the list of holiday releases will be Mary McHugh‘s Christmas-themed High Kicks, Hot Chocolate, and Homicides, the 5th in the Happy Hoofers Mystery Series. The Happy Hoofers are taking part in a big gig at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall with the legendary Rockettes, when one of the Rockettes turns up dead under the stage! Can the Hoofers discover the murderer before the show is scheduled to begin, or will this holiday season be dance-free?

Of course, you aren’t limited to these Cozies if you’re looking to scratch that holiday itch >>> be sure to check the below links for many other great Halloween and Christmas themed Cozies!

Halloween Themed Cozies

Christmas Themed Cozies

One New Mystery Series by Cozy Mystery Authors Coming September 2016

September will be a bit of a “lull” in the new series releases for Cozy Mysteries >>> we’ll only be getting one new series in September. So we’ll have plenty of time to not only take a look at Peg Cochran’s new series, but also to catch-up with our already existing Cozy series!

 Peg Cochran will be releasing No Farm, No Foul, the first book in her new Farmer’s Daughter Mystery Series. This series will star Shelby McDonald, a lifestyle and cooking blogger in Lovett, a small western Michigan town. When the local minister’s wife turns up dead on Shelby’s property during a local fundraiser, it looks like Shelby’s good friend is the primary suspect. Shelby isn’t about to let her friend go to jail for a crime she didn’t commit, so she decides the only reasonable course of action is to solve the case herself! Peg Cochran also writes several other Cozy Mystery series: the Gourmet De-Lite Mystery Series starring Gigi Fitzgerald, a gourmet caterer, the Lucille Mystery Series starring Lucille Mazzarella, a middle aged Jersey girl, and the Cranberry Cove Mystery Series starring Monica Albertson, a worker on her brother’s cranberry farm. Also, writing under the name Meg London, she writes the Sweet Nothings Vintage Lingerie Mystery Series starring Emma Taylor, a stylist in Paris, Tennessee.

Of course, even if there’s only one new Cozy Mystery series coming out in September, there are still plenty of other Cozies to look forward to >>> this series and more can be found on the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page, as well as the Soon to Be Released Mysteries page of my Cozy-Mystery site.

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