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Three New Cozy Mystery Series Coming January 2016

Can you believe it’s almost 2016! It seems like only yesterday when we were celebrating the new millennium, and that was 16 years ago!

Back to Cozy Mysteries! Three Cozy Mystery authors will be starting new series this January:

First is Bailey Cattrell‘s Enchanted Garden Mystery Series, which will be beginning with Daisies for Innocence. This novel will introduce Elliana (Ellie) Allbright and her perfume shop in Poppyville, California. When her part-time assistant (Josie) starts dating her ex and turns up mysteriously dead, Ellie will need to find the real culprit before she becomes the prime suspect herself! Bailey Cattrell also writes the Magical Bakery Mystery Series as Bailey Cates and the Home Crafting Mystery Series as Cricket McRae.

Next up will be Dani Pettrey‘s Cold Shot, the 1st in her new Chesapeake Valor Series. In this romantic suspense series, we will be introduced to Griffin McCray, a former SWAT-team sniper and current park ranger at Gettysburg. When a pair of relic hunters uncover a suspiciously fresh corpse near the Little Round Top, Griffin will need to call on current and past skills to help discover the killer. Dani Pettrey also writes the Alaskan Courage Mystery Series, a romantic suspense series starring various members of the McKenna family in Yancey, Alaska.

Finally will be Paige Shelton‘s To Helvetica and Back, the 1st in the new Dangerous Type Mystery Series. This novel will star Clare Henry, assistant typewriter repairer to her grandfather Chester. When a stranger who tried to force Clare to hand over an antique typewriter they are repairing for another customer turns up dead, Clare will need to solve the case for her own peace of mind. Paige Shelton also writes the Farmers’ Market Mystery Series and the Country Cooking School Mystery Series.

As always you can check out these books (and many more!) on the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page.

January 2016 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in January 2016:

Jeff Abbott: The First Order (This will be the 5th in the Sam Capra Mystery Series.)

Christy Barritt: Mountain Hideaway (This will be a Love Inspired Suspense Mystery.)

Jessica Beck (aka Elizabeth Bright, Casey Mayes, Melissa Glazer, Chris Cavender, & Tim Myers): Raspberry Revenge (This will be the 23rd in the Donut Shop Mystery Series.)

Jacklyn Brady (aka Sherry Lewis): The Cakes of Monte Cristo (This will be the 6th in the Piece of Cake Mystery Series.)

Bailey Cattrell (aka Bailey Cates & Cricket McRae): Daisies for Innocence (This will be the 1st in the NEW Enchanted Garden Mystery Series.)

Hy Conrad: Dearly Departed (This will be the 2nd in the Amy’s Travel Mystery Series.)

J.J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & Ellie Grant): Sweet Pepper Hero (This will be the 4th in the Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mystery Series.)

Shelley Costa: Practical Sins for Cold Climates  (This will be the 1st in the NEW Val Cameron Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Shamrock Shenanigans (This will be the 19th in the Zoe Donovan Mysteries.)

Kathi Daley: Zimmerman Academy (This will be a novella spinoff of the Zoe Donovan Mysteries.)

Jana DeLeon: Sinister (This will be the 2nd in the Shaye Archer Mystery Series.)

Phillip DePoy: A Prisoner in Malta (This will be a Stand Alone Novel.)

Tim Dorsey: Coconut Cowboy (This will be the 19th in the Serge Storms Mystery Series.)

Anthea Fraser: A Tangled Thread (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Jeanne Glidewell: Rip Tide (This will be the 2nd in the Ripple Effect Cozy Mystery Series.)

Sarah Graves: The Girls She Left Behind (This will be the 2nd in the Lizzie Snow Mystery Series.)

Parnell Hall: Presumed Puzzled (This will be the 17th in the Puzzle Lady Mystery Series.)

Tami Hoag: The Bitter Season (This will be the 5th in the Sam Kovak Mystery Series.)

Julie Hyzy: Foreign Éclairs (This will be the 9th in the White House Chef Mystery Series.)

Tonya Kappes: Murder by the Bay (This will be the 1st in the NEW Blossom Bay story collection. Some of the short stories in this series will be mystery, some will be romance, while others will be women’s fiction.)

Victoria Laurie: A Ghoul’s Guide to Love and Murder (This will be the 10th in the Ghost Hunter Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Copy Cap Murder (This will be the 4th in the Hat Shop Mystery Series.)

Carla Neggers: The Spring at Moss Hill (This will be the 6th in the Swift River Valley Series. This is not a mystery.)

Joyce Carol Oates: The Man Without a Shadow (This will be a Stand-Alone mystery.)

J. Michael Orenduff: The Pot Thief Who Studied Georgia O’Keeffe (This will be the 6th in the Pot Thief Mystery Series.)

Diana Orgain: A Second Chance at Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Love or Money Mystery Series.)

James Patterson & Marshall Karp: NYPD Red 4 (This will be the 4th in the NYPD Red Series.)

Joanne Pence: Three O’Clock Séance (This will be the 3rd in the Rebecca Mayfield Mystery Series.)

Thomas Perry: Forty Thieves (This will be a Stand Alone novel.)

Dani Pettrey: Cold Shot (This will be the 1st in the NEW Chesapeake Valor Series.)

Penny Pike (aka Penny Warner): Death of a Bad Apple (This will be the 3rd in the Food Festival Mystery Series.)

Peter Robinson: Fan Mail (This will be a Stand Alone mystery novella.)

Annelise Ryan (aka Allyson K. Abbott): Stiff Competition (This will be the 7th in the Mattie Winston Mystery Series.)

Sarah R. Shaber: Louise’s Chance (This will be the 5th in the Louise Pearlie Mystery Series.)

Paige Shelton: To Helvetica and Back (This will be the 1st in the NEW Dangerous Type Mystery Series.)

Fran Stewart: A Wee Dose of Death (This will be the 2nd in the ScotShop Mystery Series.)

Tracy Weber: Karma’s a Killer (This will be the 3rd in the Downward Dog Mystery Series.)

Lis Wiehl & Sebastian Stuart: The Newsmakers (This will be a Stand-Alone mystery.)

In case you would like to see this month’s releases: December 2015 Mystery Book New Releases.

I have lots and lots of  Cozies that are scheduled to be released so please click on this link to go to the Soon to be Released Mysteries page on the site.

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

Eight New Holiday Cozy Mysteries Coming in December 2015

As is usual for this time of the year, we can look forward to a good number of holiday-themed Cozies! Unsurprisingly (for December), most of these will be Christmas-themed holiday Cozies. But, this December we will also see an Oktoberfest Cozy and a Fourth of July Cozy. Hmmm… If you’re anything like me, you’ll be trying to make yourself wait to read those two non-Christmas Cozies until their appropriate seasons. However, lately it’s been getting harder and harder for me to hold off from reading them as they are released during the wrong holiday season!

First up is Amanda Carmack‘s Murder at Whitehall, the 4th in the Elizabethan Mystery Series. In this entry, Tudor-era Kate Haywood, personal musician to the queen, will not only need to use her professional skills to help entertain a number of visiting notable nobility in her official capacity, but also act unofficially to discover the identity of a blackmailer and also solve the murder of a visiting Spanish lord.

The next holiday Cozy up is Ornaments of Death, the 10th in Jane K. Cleland‘s Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series. This Christmas, Jane will be enjoying her holiday time in the coastal town of Rocky Point, New Hampshire, by hosting her annual holiday party. When a recently discovered relative (Ian) joins the party, she will need to solve the disappearance of not only Ian but also several priceless 17th century watercolor miniature portraits he had intended to give his daughter >>> and Josie’s good friend, Lavinia, is the most obvious culprit!

Next up will be The Iced Princess, the 2nd in Christine Husom‘s Snow Globe Shop Mystery Series. This book will continue the mystery solving adventures of Camryn Brooks, gift shop manager and snow globe workshop teacher. When a former high-school classmate asks for a job at least through the Christmas season, Camryn agrees to help her out despite the socialite not being exactly what she was hoping for in seasonal help. When Molly turns up dead in the shop, poisoned by a cup of coffee, Camryn feels responsible enough to help discover the culprit. Husom also writes the Winnebago County Mystery Series, a thriller series starring a deputy sheriff in Minnesota.

Another Christmas-themed Cozy coming out will be Sue Ann Jaffarian‘s The Ghost of Mistletoe Mary, a novella in the Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Series. In this story, ghost Granny Apples and her descendant, medium Emma, will be asked by psychic private eye Jeremiah Jones to help look for a missing lady of the night – who a homeless man claims saw as a ghost recently. Is the woman dead, or merely missing? And can the trio find her before the end of the holiday season?

Joyce and Jim Lavene will be putting out Murder Fir Christmas, the 1st in the NEW Christmas Tree Valley Mystery Series. Since it is the first book in a new series, I’ve already discussed it in the New Cozy Series post (Two New Cozy Mystery Series Coming December 2015) for December. When Federal Wildlife Agent Bonnie Tuttle goes home to Christmas Tree Valley, Tennessee, to take over from agent Harvey Shelton, she’ll need to solve his mysterious death by shooting – especially surprising considering his body was also found in a fire. The Lavenes write many other series, including the Peggy Lee Garden Mystery Series, the Missing Pieces Mystery Series, and the Renaissance Faire Mystery Series, as well as other series under the pseudonyms Ellie Grant and J. J. Cook.

One of two non-Christmas themed mysteries coming out this December is Maddy Hunter‘s From Bad to Wurst, the 10th in the Passport to Peril Mystery Series,  which is an Oktoberfest themed mystery. This Oktoberfest, tour leader Emily will need to help get the group’s travels back on track when a fellow guest at a famous German beer house turns up dead. But the tour must go on, and the situation continues to worsen when the group moves on to visit the scenic castle of Mad King Ludwig.

Finally we have the other non-Christmas mystery, Lea Wait‘s Thread and Gone, a Fourth of July themed Cozy which will be the 3rd in the Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series. This summer, Angie is asked to look over an antique piece of needlepoint and learn what she can to determine its value and history. As it appears to be quite valuable, she asks her family lawyer to put it in his safe. When the lawyer turns up dead and the safe empty, she feels responsible, and is determined to both hunt down the killer and ensure that the valuable piece of needlework is returned to its rightful owner.

These and other holiday-themed Cozy Mysteries can be found on their appropriate holiday theme pages:

Christmas Mystery Books

Halloween and Fall Themed Mystery Books

Fourth of July Mystery Books

Two New Cozy Mystery Series Coming December 2015

It looks like we’ll have two NEW Cozy Mystery Series to look forward to in December.

The first is by Alyssa Maxwell, the Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery Series, beginning with Murder Most Malicious. This series stars Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her maid, Eva Huntford. Set in post World War I England, the pair will need to discover the the killer of the Marquis of Allerton, who dies while a guest in the Renshaw home. Alyssa Maxwell also writes the Gilded Newport Mystery Series, starring a reporter at the end of the 19th century in Newport, Rhode Island.

 

The other is the Christmas Tree Valley Mystery Series by Joyce and Jim Lavene, beginning with Murder Fir Christmas. This novel will introduce us to Federal Wildlife Agent Bonnie Tuttle, who will be returning to her hometown of Christmas Tree Valley, Tennessee, to replace another wildlife agent. Unfortunately the agent dies in a mysterious fire. But when it’s discovered that the agent wasn’t killed by the fire but shot, Bonnie will need to discover the culprit to avoid a similar fate! The Lavenes are also the authors of the Missing Pieces Mystery Series, the Renaissance Faire Mystery Series, the Peggy Lee Garden Mystery Series, and many more, both under their own names and under the pen names of J. J. Cook and Ellie Grant.

If you’d like to see if one of your favorite Cozy Mystery authors is going to be starting a new Cozy Mystery series, these two series and more can be seen on the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page.

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