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September 2015 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in September 2015:

Victoria Abbott (aka Mary Jane Maffini & Victoria Maffini): The Marsh Madness (This will be the 4th in the Book Collectors Mystery Series.)

Susan Wittig Albert: The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O’Clock Lady (This will be the 6th in the Darling Dahlias Mystery Series.)

Barbara Allan: Antiques St. Nicked (This will be a Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery Series novella.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Maureen Ash: A Holy Vengeance (This will be the 8th in the Templar Knight Mystery Series.)

David Baldacci: The Keeper (This will be the 2nd in the Finisher Series for grades 6 – 9.)

M.C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Dishing the Dirt (This will be the 26th in the Agatha Raisin Mystery Series.)

Jessica Beck (aka Elizabeth Bright, Casey Mayes, Melissa Glazer, Chris Cavender, & Tim Myers): Criminal Crumbs (This will be the 21st in the Donut Shop Mystery Series.)

K.K. Beck: Tipping the Valet (This is the first in the NEW Workplace Mystery Series.)

Mike Befeler: Murder on the Switzerland Trail (This will either be the first in a new series or a Stand Alone mystery.)

Josie Belle (aka Jenn McKinlay & Lucy Lawrence): All Sales Final (This will be the 5th in the Good Buy Girls Mystery Series.)

Jenna Bennett (aka Jennie Bentley & Bente Gallagher): Busman’s Honeymoon (This will be a Savannah Martin Mystery novella.)

Laurien Berenson: The Bark Before Christmas (This will be the 18th in the Melanie Travis Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Mollie Cox Bryan: Scrapbook of the Dead (This will be the 5th in the Cumberland Creek Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Erika Chase: Law and Author (This will be the 5th in the Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery Series.)

Ann Cleeves: The Moth Catcher (This will be the 7th in the Vera Stanhope Mystery Series.)

Barbara Cleverly: The New Cambridge Mysteries (This will be a collection of mystery stories that take place in/around Cambridge.)

Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra): All I Want For Christmas is Fudge (This will be the 4th in the Candy-Coated Mystery Series. That’s how this “book” is described, however, I think it might be a novella.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Margaret Coel: The Man Who Fell from the Sky (This will be the 19th in the Wind River Reservation Mystery Series.)

Nancy J. Cohen: Peril by Ponytail (This will be the 12th in the Bad Hair Day Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: The Legend of Tabby Hollow (This will be the 5th in the Whales and Tails Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Diane Mott Davidson: Goldy’s Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking, Writing, Family, Life (A cookbook related to the Goldy Bear Mystery Series.)

Jana DeLeon: Hurrican Force (This will be the 7th in the Miss Fortune Mystery Series.)

Laura DiSilverio (aka Lila Dare & Ella Barrick): The Reckoning Stones (This will be a Stand Alone suspense novel.)

Stephen Dobyns: Is Fat Bob Dead Yet? (This will either be the first in a new series or a Stand Alone comic suspense mystery.)

Jan Dunlap: The Kiskadee of Death (This will be the 7th in the Bob White Birder Murder Mystery Series.)

Shelley Freydont: Trick or Deceit (This will be the 4th in the Celebration Bay Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween theme mystery.)

Eva Gates (aka Vicki Delany): Booked for Trouble (This will be the 2nd in the Lighthouse Library Mystery Series.)

Suzette A. Hill: A Southwold Mystery (This will be a Stand Alone mystery or the 1st in a NEW mystery series.)

Dorothy Howell: Swag Bags and Swindlers (This will be the 11th in the Haley Randolph Mystery Series.)

D. E. Ireland: Move Your Blooming Corpse (This will be the 2nd in the Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins Mystery Series.)

Jonnie Jacobs: Payback (This will be a Stand Alone suspense novel.)

Miranda James (aka Jimmie Ruth Evans, Honor Hartman, & Dean James): Dead with the Wind (This will be the 2nd in the Southern Ladies Mystery Series.)

Iris Johansen: Shadow Play (This will be the 18th in the Eve Duncan Mystery Series.) (not Cozy)

Tonya Kappes: A Ghostly Murder (This will be the 4th in the Ghostly Southern Mystery Series.)

Jan Karon: Come Rain or Come Shine (This will be the 11th in the Mitford very Cozy but non-mystery series.)

Toni L.P. Kelner (aka Leigh Perry): Crooked as a Dog’s Hind Leg (This will be a collection of the Laura Fleming Mystery Series stories.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Be My Banshee (This will be the 1st in the NEW Purple Door Detective Agency Mystery Series.)

Lizbeth Lipperman (aka Liz Lipperman & Liz Roth): Mission to Kill (This will be the 3rd in the Dead Sister Talking Mystery Series.)

Colette London: Dangerously Dark (This will be the 2nd in the Chocolate Whisperer Mystery Series.) (This is a wedding themed mystery.)

Karen MacInerney: Pumpkin Pied (This will be a Gray Whale Inn story.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery story.)

Molly MacRae: Knot the Usual Suspects (This will be the 5th in the Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery Series.)

Archer Mayor: The Company She Kept (This will be the 26th in the Joe Gunther Mystery Series.) (not Cozy)

Catriona McPherson: The Child Garden (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Amy Metz : Short & Tall Tales in Goose Pimple Junction (This will be a collection of Goose Pimple Junction Mystery Series stories.)

Amy Myers: Classic in the Dock (This will be the 7th in the Jack Colby, Car Detective Mystery Series.)

Joyce Carol Oates: The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age (This will be a Stand Alone.)

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

James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein: Treasure Hunters: Secret of the Forbidden City (This will be the 3rd in the Treasure Hunters Mystery Series for grades 3 – 7.)

Joanne Pence: Cook’s Big Day (This will be the 16th in the Angie Amalfi Mystery Series. This is a novella length mystery.)

Anne Perry: Corridors of the Night (This will be the 21st in the William Monk Mystery Series.)

Rose Pressey: Haunt the Haunt, Walk the Walk (This will be the 3rd in the Haunted Tour Guide Mystery Series.)

Deanna Raybourn: A Curious Beginning (This will be the 1st in the NEW Veronica Speedwell Mystery Series.)

Kathy Reichs: Speaking in Bones (This will be the 18th in the Temperance Brennan Mystery Series.) (Actually, Speaking in Bones has already been released!)

J.D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts): Devoted in Death (This will be the 42nd in the In Death Mystery Series.) (not Cozy)

Wendy Corsi Staub: Blood Red (This will be the 1st in the NEW Mundy’s Landing Mystery Series.) (not Cozy)

Denise Swanson: Murder of an Open Book (This will be the 18th in the Scumble River Mystery Series.)

Charles Todd: Tales (This will be a collection of Bess Crawford and Ian Rutledge short stories.)

Gayle Trent (aka Amanda Lee & Gayle Leeson): Perp and Circumstance (This will be the 4th in the Myrtle Crumb Mystery Series.)

Here are this month’s releases: August  2015 Mystery Book New Releases.

Here is my page with all of the Cozy Mystery books 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.)

A Little of This and A Little of That at the Cozy Mystery Site

I have just added about 50 new mysteries on my Soon to be Released Mysteries page on the site. I was surprised to find so many mysteries during my recent search! I even found three Cozies that were released this month. It’s pretty rare for me to find Cozies after-the-fact, but I’m certainly glad I did!

It took me a little longer than usual to finally get all of these new mystery books on the site. Our daughter came home for a short visit last weekend. She is getting ready to move to Washington, D.C. and as she will be renting an apartment downtown, she won’t need her car which is a good thing since parking is so expensive. She drove her car back here to store it in our garage.

We always enjoy her visits. She has been keeping busy at her current job, and the weekend before she came home her college roommate flew out to visit her in New Orleans. I know our daughter really enjoyed seeing her great friend, and I sure hope the two of them can continue visiting each other once there are more miles between them.

Anyway, back to the cozies. I try to update the Soon to be Released Mysteries page whenever I find new mystery books. That’s why I was so surprised when I found about 50 new mysteries after taking only one weekend off! Yikes!

Two New Holiday Themed Cozies Coming August 2015 – Ellery Adams: Murder In the Paperback Parlor, Leslie Meier: Candy Corn Murder

I love this time of year. Well, actually not so much the sweltering days of July, but I love the Cozy Mystery releases that start at this time of the year. It seems like August is when a lot of our holiday themed Cozies start being released, and it looks like we’ll have two new Holiday themed Cozy Mysteries to look forward to this coming August – one Valentine’s Day themed and one Halloween themed!

First is Ellery Adams‘s Murder in the Paperback Parlor, which takes place near Valentine’s Day. This second entry in the Book Retreat Mystery Series will see the return of amateur sleuth Jane Stewart, manager of the Storyton Hall Book Resort in the hills of western Virginia. When one of the prominent authors visiting the resort is killed, she’ll need to once again help get to the bottom of the case if she wants to keep her beloved resort afloat! Ellery Adams writes multiple other popular Cozy Mystery series, including the Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery Series, the Books by the Bay Mystery Series, and the Supper Club Mystery Series, among others!

Second is the Halloween-themed Candy Corn Murder by Leslie Meier. Halloween will once again be coming to Tinker’s Cove! This Cozy is the 22nd in the holiday themed Lucy Stone Mystery Series, and will be the third Halloween themed mystery in the series. Homemaker Lucy Stone’s plans for a festive Halloween are ruined when her husband Bill’s friend Evan turns up dead – and Bill is the primary suspect, since he’s the last person who saw Evan alive, Expect even more holiday mystery and fun in this continuation of the Lucy Stone series!

In case you’re interested in more mysteries in both of these themes, you can click on these links to go to the corresponding pages on my Cozy Mystery site:

Halloween Theme Mysteries

Valentine’s Day Mysteries

Three New Cozy Mystery Series Coming August 2015 – Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Cranberry Cove, Shelley Freydont: Newport Gilded Age, Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Pumpkin Patch

I love telling you about new Cozy Mystery series when some of our favorite Cozy Mystery authors launch them. And it looks like we’ll have three new Cozy Mystery series to look forward to in August by established authors on the site. They look like some real good ones, too!

First is Peg Cochran‘s (aka Meg London) Cranberry Cove Mystery Series, which will have its debut book, Berried Secrets, releasing in August. This upcoming novel will star Monica Albertson, who has come to the small town of Cranberry Cove, located on Lake Michigan, to help her half-brother Jeff run his cranberry farm. When Jeff comes under suspicion for the untimely death of his former farm manager, Monica will need to help make sure that his good name is cleared. Peg Cochran also writes the Gourmet De-Lite Mystery Series starring gourmet caterer Gigi Fitzgerald, the Lucille Mystery Series starring a middle-aged Jersey girl and Home Shopping Channel devotee, as well as the Sweet Nothings Vintage Lingerie Mystery Series under the pen name Meg London.

Next will be Shelley Freydont‘s A Gilded Grave, which will be the first book in her Newport Gilded Age Mystery Series. This series will be a period piece set toward the end of the 19th century, starring Deanna Randolph, a wealthy young woman of the American elite spending her first season in Newport, Rhode Island. When a young maid turns up dead and a young man she turned down for marriage becomes the primary suspect, Deanna knows he isn’t a killer. Shelley Freydont is also the author of several other Cozy Mystery series, including the holiday-focused Celebration Bay Mystery Series, the Sudoku Mystery Series starring a Sudoku champion and mathematician, and the Lindy Haggerty Mystery Series starring an ex-dancer in New Jersey.

Finally, Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant) will be releasing Give ‘Em Pumpkin to Talk About, the first book in their new Pumpkin Patch Mystery Series. When attorney Sarah Tucker goes home to sell the old family farm in Misty River, Virginia, it brings back memories of when she was a young girl and her grandparents mysteriously disappeared just before she arrived for a vacation at the farm. When a man dies after claiming to know something about what happened to them, she won’t be able to go back home until she has finally reached the bottom of their mysterious disappearance. The Lavenes are also the authors of many other Cozy Mystery Series, including the Missing Pieces Mystery Series, the Renaissance Fair Mystery Series, the Taxi For the Dead Mystery Series, the Peggy Lee Garden Mystery Series, the Retired Witches Mystery Series, and the Sheriff Sharyn Howard Mystery Series… plus several others!

Of course, all of these series (and more, including this month’s upcoming new Cozy Mystery Series releases) can be found on the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page on the site.

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