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October 2015 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in October 2015:

Cathy Ace: The Corpse with the Diamond Hand (This will be the 6th in the Cait Morgan Mystery Series.)

Isabella Alan (aka Amanda Flower): Murder, Plainly Read (This will be the 4th in the Amish Quilt Shop Mystery Series.)

Tasha Alexander: The Adventuress (This will be the 10th in the Lady Emily Mystery Series.)

Beverly Allen: Floral Depravity (This will be the 3rd in the Bridal Bouquet Shop Mystery Series.)

Donna Andrews: The Two Deadly Doves (This will a Meg Langslow Mystery Series Christmas omnibus containing book #10 Six Geese A- Slaying and book #16 Duck the Halls.)

Donald Bain, Renée Paley-Bain, & “Jessica Fletcher”: The Ghost and Mrs. Fletcher (This will be the 44th in the Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Jessica Beck  (aka Elizabeth Bright, Casey Mayes, Melissa Glazer, Chris Cavender, & Tim Myers): Cast Iron Cover-Up (This will be the 3rd in the Cast Iron Cooking Mystery Series.)

Laurien Berenson: A Christmas Howl (This will be a Melanie Travis Christmas story.)

Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber): Ghost of a Potion (This will be the 3rd in the Magic Potion Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Fiona Buckley: A Perilous Alliance (This will be the 13th in the Ursula Blanchard Mystery Series.)

Amanda Carmack: Murder at the Queen’s Masquerade (This will be an Elizabethan Mystery Series novella.)

Laura Childs & Terrie Farley Moran: Parchment and Old Lace (This will be the 13th in the Scrapbooking Mystery Series)

Alys Clare: A Shadowed Evil (This will be the 16th in the Hawkenlye Mystery Series.)

Ann Cleeves: Shetland (This will be the 7th in the Shetland Island Quartet Mystery Series.)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): A Gala Event (This will be the 9th in the Orchard Mystery Series.) (This is a Fall Harvest themed mystery.)

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): The Question of the Unfamiliar Husband (This will be the 2nd in the Asperger’s Mystery Series.)

Waverly Curtis: The Silence of the Chihuahuas (This will be the 5th in the Barking Detective Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Ghostly Graveyard (This will be the 17th in the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Kathi Daley: The Conspiracy (This will be the 4th in the Seacliff High Mystery Series for young adults.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): Flipped for Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW Country Store Mystery Series.)

Susan Dunlap: Switchback (This will be the 5th in the Darcy Lott Mystery Series.)

Kaitlyn Dunnett (aka Kathy Lynn Emerson): The Scottie Barked at Midnight (This will be the 9th Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series.)

Kathleen Ernst: Death on the Prairie (This will be the 6th in the Chloe Ellefson Mystery Series.)

“Jessica Fletcher“, Donald Bain, & Renée Paley-Bain: The Ghost and Mrs. Fletcher (This will be the 44th in the Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Andi Unstoppable (This will be the 3rd in the Andi Boggs Mystery Series for children.)

Christopher Fowler: The Sand Men (This will be a Stand Alone thriller.)

Yasmine Galenorn (aka India Ink): Autumn Thorns (This will be the 1st in the NEW Whisper Hollow Mystery Series.)

Ashley Gardner: The Thames River Murders (This will be the 10th in the Captain Lacey Regency England Mystery Series Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth George: A Banquet of Consequences (This will be the 19th in the Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley Mystery Series.)

John Grisham: Rogue Lawyer (This will be a Stand-Alone mystery.)

Carolyn Haines: Jingle Bones (This will be a Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series story.) (This is a Christmas-themed mystery.)

Charlaine Harris: Dancers in the Dark (This will be a Stand-Alone novella.)

Carolyn Hart: Ghost to the Rescue (This will be the 6th in the Bailey Ruth Ghost Mystery Series.)

Ellen Hart: The Grave Soul (This will be the 23rd in the Jane Lawless Mystery Series.)

Veronica Heley: Murder by Suspicion (This will be the 16th in the Ellie Quick Mystery Series.)

Kay Hooper: Fear the Dark (This will be the 7th in the Bishop Special Crimes Units Mystery Series.)

Linda O. Johnston: Knock on Wood (This will be the 2nd in the Superstition Mystery Series.)

Faye Kellerman: The Theory of Death (This will be the 23rd in the Decker & Lazarus Mystery Series.)

Diane Kelly: Death, Taxes, and a Chocolate Cannoli (This will be the 9th in the Tara Holloway Mystery Series.)

Sofie Kelly (aka Sofie Ryan): Faux Paw (This will be the 7th in the Magical Cats Mystery Series.)

Janet Laurence: A Fatal Freedom (This will be the 2nd in the Ursula Grandison Mystery Series.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka Ellie Grant & J.J. Cook): Looking for Mr. Good Witch (This will be the 2nd in the Retired Witches Mystery Series.)

Susan Elia MacNeal: Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante (This will be the 5th in the Maggie Hope Mystery Series.)

Debbie Macomber: Dashing Through the Snow: A Christmas Novel (This will be a Stand Alone non mystery Christmas novel.)

G. M. Malliet: The Haunted Season (This will be the 5th in the Max Tudor Mystery Series.)

Edward Marston (aka Conrad Allen & Keith Miles): Dance of Death (This will be the 5th in the Home Front Detective Mystery Series.)

Carla Neggers: A Knights Bridge Christmas (This will be the 5th in the Swift River Valley Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed novel. This is not a mystery.) (Actually, September 29.)

James Patterson & Maxine Paetro: The Murder of an Angel (This will be the 4th in the Confessions Mystery Series.)

Carol J. Perry: Look Both Ways (This will be the 3rd in the Witch City Mystery Series.)

Leigh Perry (aka Toni L.P. Kelner): The Skeleton Haunts a House (This will be the 3rd in the Family Skeleton Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Marta Perry: When Secrets Strike (This will be the 2nd in the Watcher in the Dark Mystery Series.)

Rose Pressey: Haunt Couture and Ghosts Galore (This will be the 3rd in the Haunted Vintage Mystery Series.)

Fran Rizer: Murder is on the Clock (This will be the 7th in the Callie Parish Mystery Series.)

Hank Phillippi Ryan: What You See (This will be the 4th in the Jane Ryland Mystery Series.)

Lisa Scottoline: Corrupted (This will be the 14th in the Rosato & Associates Mystery Series.)

Jeff Shelby (aka Jeffrey Allen): You’ve Got Blackmail (This will be the 5th in the Moose River Mystery Series.)

Alexander McCall Smith: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (This will be the 16th in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Mystery Series.)

Wendy Corsi Staub: Nine Lives (This will be the 1st in the NEW Lily Dale Mystery Series.)

Debbie Viguié: Thy Rod and Thy Staff (This will be the 12th in the Psalm 23 Mystery Series.)

Peggy Webb: Elvis and the Rock-A-Huyla Baby Capers (This will be the 7th in the Southern Cousins Mystery Series.)

Tea Time with the Cozy Chicks by Ellery Adams, Lorraine Bartlett, Duffy Brown, Kate Collins, Mary Kennedy, Mary Jane Maffini, Maggie Sefton, & Leann Sweeney >>> Recipes, Tea Menus, and More!

If you’d like to see this month’s releases: September   2015 Mystery Book New Releases.

Also, this is the page on my site where I have all of the  Cozies that are scheduled to be released (that I know of!) 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.)

Three New Mystery Series Coming September 2015 – K. K. Beck: Workplace, Deanna Raybourn: Veronica Speedwell, Wendy Corsi Staub: Mundy’s Landing

Last month I told you about the new Cozy Mystery Series that would be coming out this month, August (Three New Cozy Series Starting in August 2015), so this month I’ll be discussing some of the new series getting started by established site authors coming out next month, September.

First up is K.K. Beck‘s new series, the Workplace Mystery Series, starting with her the first novel in the series, Tipping the Valet. This new series will star unlucky young Tyler Benson, currently a valet, who becomes involved in a series of auto thefts and a murder at his workplace restaurant. When a body turns up in a parked car and someone takes shots at a famous local tech magnate, Tyler will start to seem more and more like the logical suspect >>> which will force him to take up a second job as an amateur detective to avoid landing in jail! Beck writes several other series on the site, including the Iris Cooper & Jack Clancy Mystery Series, set in the 1920’s, and the Jane Da Silva Mysteries, starring a lounge singer and detective in Seattle, as well as a number of stand alone mysteries.

Next will be Deanna Raybourn‘s A Curious Beginning, which will be the first in the Veronica Speedwell Mystery Series. An orphan in Victorian England, Veronica intends to travel abroad and pursue her scientific studies after the death of her spinster aunt, but will instead be plunged into intrigue and a bit of romance when a mysterious German baron helps her thwart her own kidnapping. Unfortunately the baron soon turns up murdered – forcing Veronica and the baron’s friend, a foul-tempered librarian named Stoker, to both discover the killer and help piece together the mystery of what the baron knew about why Veronica was targeted for kidnapping. Raybourn also writes another Victorian-themed mystery series listed on the site, the Lady Julia Grey Mystery Series, starring a young widow living in Victorian London.

Finally will be Wendy Corsi Staub‘s Blood Red, the 1st in her Mundy’s Landing Mystery Series. (Staub’s books are more thriller than Cozy, but she is on the site and I know many of the site viewers are fans, so I thought it should be mentioned…) Mundy’s Landing is a scenic town in New York’s Hudson Valley, known for its beautiful vistas… and a past including a hundred-year-old serial killer case. Elements of this dangerous past appear to be repeating around Rowan Mundy, a grade school teacher and mother of three. Staub also writes the Lily Dale Mystery Series, the Nightwatch Trilogy, and the Thriller Trilogy – none really are Cozy, but thrillers that have been recommended by friends of the site.

Good Grief! I should have written this entry about the four new mystery series that will start in September! (Where is my head?)

 Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant) will be starting their Purple Door Detective Agency Mystery Series. Sunshine Merryweather is the sleuth in this series, and she happens to be a witch! She is also the owner of the Purple Door Detective Agency in Norfolk, Virginia. Sunshine will be spending a lot of time with Aine, a spirit, while she does her sleuthing. The first book in this series is Be My Banshee.

If you want to take a look at some of the other upcoming Cozy Mystery series, be sure to check out this page on the site: New Cozy Mystery Book Series.

If you’re looking for more upcoming Cozy Mystery releases in general but aren’t picky about whether they are new series, check out this page instead: Soon to be Released Mysteries. There sure are a lot of great looking Cozies coming up soon!

Three New Christmas Cozies Coming in September 2015 – Barbara Allan: Antiques St. Nicked, Laurien Berenson: The Bark Before Christmas, and Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra): All I Want for Christmas is Fudge

Since there were so many holiday themed Cozy Mystery releases upcoming in September, I decided to split them up into two posts. Last time I talked about Halloween Cozy Mystery releases for September, while this month I’ll be discussing the three Christmas-themed Cozy releases we can look forward to!

First on our Christmas-themed Cozy Mystery list will be Barbara Allan‘s Antiques St. Nicked, a novella in the Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery Series. This next entry in the continuing mystery adventures of Brandy Borne and her lovable Shi Tzu (Sushi) will occur during the annual Holiday Stroll activities in Serenity, a scenic small town. When a Santa’s workshop employee turns up dead and his donation bag empty, it will be up to Brandy and her mother Vivian to solve the case of both the murder and the missing presents!

The next book on our Christmas-in-September list will be The Bark Before Christmas, the 18th book in Laurien Berenson‘s Melanie Travis Mystery Series. This entry in the series will see the return of Melanie, who will once again need to balance the her part-time job, full time mothering for two children, and the care for half a dozen darling poodles while solving a festive murder! When a Santa at her school’s big fundraiser turns up dead and a prize poodle missing, she’ll need to use all of her now-formidable sleuthing experience to get to the bottom of the case!

Last but certainly not least will be Nancy Coco‘s All I Want for Christmas is Fudge, the  fourth in her Candy-Coated Mystery Series… though the description sounds like it might actually be a novella, not a full-fledged entry in the series. When fudge shop owner Allie McMurphy’s old friend Jenn arrives back in town to celebrate the holidays, neither woman expects Jenn to end up the target of a police investigation. But when Santa turns up dead in a ditch, it will be up to the girls to hunt down the killer and clear Jenn’s name! Nancy Coco also writes the Baker’s Treat Mystery Series and Perfect Proposals Mystery Series under the pseudonym Nancy J. Parra.

Wow, these look like some really festive Cozies! It sounds like being Santa might be a more dangerous job than you might think!

If you’re just too eager to get started on your Christmas Cozy Mystery reading, check out the many books we’ve already got to choose from when you’re feeling like nothing but a festive holiday mystery will do on this page of my site: Christmas Themed Cozies (There are so many of them that I had to cut the Christmas themed mysteries into six pages!)

Three New Halloween Cozies Coming in September 2015 – Mollie Cox Bryan: Scrapbook of the Dead, Kathi Daley: The Legend of Tabby Hollow, Shelley Freydont: Trick or Deceit

The first half of the year is always a little “light” on Cozies with holiday themes, but those days will soon be ending! I’ve already discussed the soon-to-be-released August holiday Cozies in an earlier post, so it’s about time to talk about next month’s releases, the September holiday releases. Well, upcoming in September we have so many Holiday Cozy releases that I’ll be splitting them up into two posts – with this first post dedicated to the three new Halloweeen-themed Cozy Mysteries we can look forward to in the month of September! (Broken record alert: I love holiday Cozies!)

First up will be Scrapbook of the Dead, by Mollie Cox Bryan. This will be the fifth in her Cumberland Creek Mystery Series, starring Annie Chamovitz, a former journalist and current stay-at-home mom who finds herself drawn into murder as often as into her favorite pastime, scrapbooking. This isn’t the first Holiday-themed book in the series – two have already featured holidays, including Christmas and the much less used St. Patrick’s Day. This time Annie will need to solve the murders of a pair of sisters, each found clutching scrapbook pages.

 Kathi Daley will also have a Halloween themed mystery coming out – The Legend of Tabby Hollow, which will be the fifth in the Whales and Tails Mystery Series. This book will see the return of Caitlin Hart, owner of a bar, bookstore, and cat lounge, as well as a cat sanctuary employee and multiple animal owner living on a fictional island in the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. When a body is found in a nearby hollow, she will once again need to help assist in the investigation! Kathi Daley also writes the Zoe Donovan series, starring an animal rehabilitator, and the TJ Jensen Paradise Lake series, starring a high school teacher and coach.

Finally, on the Halloween-themed mystery list, we have Shelley Freydont‘s Trick or Deceit. You can tell that Freydont must really love Halloween, because this will be the second time it’s featured in her holiday-themed Celebration Bay Mystery Series. (Actually, the first Halloween themed mystery in this series is more of a Harvest themed mystery.) This series stars Liv Montgomery, an event planner in New York, who will once again need to figure out the mysterious death at one of her events, this time a Haunted House! Freydont also writes the Victorian themed Newport Gilded Age Mystery Series, the Sudoku Mystery Series, and the Lindy Haggerty Series starring an ex-dancer in New Jersey.

Can’t wait! If like me, you’re just too impatient to wait for September, you can check out plenty more Halloween themed Cozy Mysteries at the following page on the site: Halloween Theme Mysteries

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