The Cozy Mystery List Blog

Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV

August 2015 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in August 2015:

Ellery Adams (aka Jennifer Stanley, J.B. Stanley): Murder in the Paperback Parlor (This will be the 2nd in the Book Retreat Mystery Series.) (This is a Valentine’s Day theme mystery.)

Donna Andrews: Lord of the Wings (This will be the 19th in the Meg Langslow Mystery Series.)

Donald Bain: Margaret Truman’s Internship in Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Capital Crimes Mystery Series.)

M.C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Agatha’s First Case (This is a story in the Agatha Raisin Mystery Series.)

Rhys Bowen: Malice at the Palace (This will be the 9th in the Royal Spyness Mystery Series.)

Simon Brett: Mrs Pargeter’s Principle (This will be the 7th in the Mrs. Pargeter Mystery Series.)

Ellen Byron: Plantation Shudders (This will be the 1st in the NEW Cajun Country Mystery Series.)

Lynn Cahoon: Killer Run (This will be the 5th in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series.)

C. S. Challinor: Murder Comes Calling (This will be the 8th in the Rex Graves Mystery Series.)

P.F. Chisholm: A Chorus of Innocents (This will be the 7th in the Sir Robert Carey Mystery Series.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Berried Secrets (This will be the 1st in the NEW Cranberry Cove Mystery Series.)

Bill Crider: Between the Living and the Dead (This will be the 22nd in the Dan Rhodes Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Hopscotch Homicide (This will be the 16th in the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Halloween in Paradise (This will be the 6th in the Tj Jensen Paradise Lake Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Haitian Graves (This will be the 2nd in the Ray Robertson Mystery Series.)

Leighann Dobbs: Paws and Effect (This will be the 4th in the Mystic Notch Cozy Mystery Series.)

Mary Anna Evans: Isolation (This will be the 9th in the Faye Longchamp Mystery Series.)

Linda Fairstein: Devil’s Bridge (This will be the 17th in the Alexandra Cooper Mystery Series.)

Shelley Freydont: A Gilded Grave (This will be the 1st in the NEW Newport Gilded Age Mystery Series.)

Rosie Genova: A Dish Best Served Cold (This will be the 3rd in the Italian Kitchen Mystery Series.)

Daryl Wood Gerber (aka Avery Aames) Fudging the Books (This will be the 4th in the Cookbook Nook Mystery Series.)

Sue Grafton: X (This will be the 24th in the Kinsey Millhone Mystery Series.)

Carolyn Hart: From the Queen (This will be a Death on Demand Mystery Series story.)

Tonya Kappes: A Ghostly Demise (This will be the 3rd in the Ghostly Southern Mystery Series.)

Jonathan Kellerman: The Murderer’s Daughter (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Diane Kelly: Laying Down the Paw (This will be the 3rd in the Paw Enforcement Mystery Series.)

Mary Kennedy: Dream a Little Scream (This will be the 2nd in the Dream Club Mystery Series.)

Laurie R. King: Mary Russell’s War (This will be a Prequel to the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Mystery Series.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Give ‘Em Pumpkin to Talk About (This will be the 1st in the NEW Pumpkin Patch Mystery Series.)

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Revenge of the Chili Queens (This will be the 3rd in the Chili Cook-Off Mystery Series.)

Mary Marks: Gone But Knot Forgotten (This will be the 3rd in the Martha Rose Quilting Mystery Series.)

Margaret Maron: Long Upon the Land (This will be the 21st in the Deborah Knott Mystery Series.)

Carol Ann Martin: Loom and Doom (This will be the 4th in the Weaving Mystery Series.)

Mary McHugh: Cancans, Croissants, and Caskets (This will be the 3rd in the Happy Hoofers Mystery Series.)

Leslie Meier: Candy Corn Murder (This will be the 22nd in the Lucy Stone Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween theme mystery.)

Carla Neggers: Keeper’s Reach (This will be the 5th in the Sharpe & Donovan Mystery Series.)

Gail Oust: Murder is Dicey (This will be the 4th in the Kate McCall Bunco Babes Mystery Series.)

James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge: Alert (This will be the 8th in the Michael Bennett Mystery Series.)

Louise Penny: The Nature of the Beast (This will be the 11th in the Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series.)

Peter Robinson: Summer Rain (This will be an Inspector Banks Mystery Series novella.)

Maria E. Schneider: Executive Dirt (This will be the 4th in the Sedona O’Hala Mystery Series.)

Paige Shelton: If Onions Could Spring Leeks (This will be the 5th in the Country Cooking School Mystery Series.)

Connie Shelton: Sweets Forgotten (This will be the 10th in the Samantha Sweet Mystery Series.)

Clea Simon: Code Grey (This will be the 9th in the Dulcie Schwartz Mystery Series.)

Alexander McCall Smith: The Revolving Door of Life (This will be the 10th in the 44 Scotland Street Series – it is not a mystery.)

Leann Sweeney: The Cat, the Sneak and the Secret (This will be the 7th in the Cats in Trouble Mystery Series.)

Robert K. Tanenbaum: Trap (This will be the in the 27th in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Mystery Series.)

Charles Todd: A Pattern of Lies (This will be the 7th in the Bess Crawford Mystery Series.)

Diane Vallere: Crushed Velvet (This will be the 2nd in the Material Witness Mystery Series.)

Lea Wait: Threads of Evidence (This will be the 2nd in the Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series.)

Ayelet Waldman: And Murder Makes Three (This is an omnibus of the first 3 Mommy Track Mystery Series: Nursery Crimes, The Big Nap, and Playdate with Death.)

Lauren Willig: The Lure of the Moonflower (This will be the 12th in the Pink Carnation Mystery Series.)

Since these releases are a month early, here are this month’s releases: July  2015 Mystery Book New Releases.

If you would like to see lots and lots of Cozy Mystery books that are scheduled to be released, 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.)

Edie Claire’s “Never Steal a Cockatiel” Is Released Tomorrow!

As some of you who have been with me for a while know, Edie Claire is one of my very favorite Cozy Mystery authors. Way back in 1999, Never Buried (FREE in Kindle format) was the first of her Leigh Koslow mysteries to be released. Once I read it, I was hooked!

I am not caught up with many of my favorite Cozy Mystery series; but this one, I am! I preordered tomorrow’s release, Never Steal a Cockatiel, and plan to start reading it tomorrow. That’s how much I love Edie Claire’s Leigh Koslow Mystery Series! (This is the 9th book in the series.)

I found this new Cozy while I was updating my Soon to be Released Mysteries page, which I just finished doing this afternoon. You might want to go take a look at that page, some of your favorite Cozy Mystery authors may have Cozies that are going to be released. I found and posted several other Cozies that also look really good.

Three New Cozy Mystery Series Coming July 2015 – Cathy Ace: WISE Enquiries Agency, Susan Furlong (aka Lucy Arlington): Georgia Peach, Karen MacInerney: Dewberry Farm

Well, it looks like June is going to be a bit “light” on new Cozy Mystery series getting started, but fortunately it appears that we’ll have three new series from established Cozy authors to look forward to in July!

First up is Cathy Ace, who will be starting her second Cozy Mystery series, the WISE Enquiries Agency Mystery Series, with the introductory novel The Case of the Dotty Dowager. This British mystery set in the scenic Welsh countryside will introduce the four women detectives of the WISE Enquiries Agency, one each of whom is Welsh, Irish, Scottish, and English… thus the acronym WISE.  All four of the women working at WISE have their own reason for needing money, so when Henry Twyst, Duke of Chellingworth, asks the ladies to investigate his aging mother’s questionable claims to have seen a corpse in the dining room, they jump at the chance. Cathy Ace also writes the Cait Morgan Mystery Series, starring plus-size professor and criminal profiler, as well as several anthologies of murder mysteries. (Also, she won the Canadian Bony Blithe Award this year for one of her Cait Morgan mysteries!)

The next new Cozy Mystery series will be Susan Furlong‘s Georgia Peach Mystery Series, which will begin with the book Peaches and Scream. When Nola Harper returns home to help run her family’s orchard in the small town of Cays Mill, Georgia, the last thing she expects to be asked to do is solved a murder. Despite this, when a local businessman is found dead in the orchard, she’ll need to help solve the case in order to clear the business (and herself!) of any wrongdoing. Susan Furlong also writes the Pippi O’Brien Mystery Series, starring the online seller of used merchandise, and is the current author of the Novel Idea Mystery Series, starring middle aged ex-journalist and current literary agency internt, Lila Wilkins.

Finally, Karen MacInerney will be releasing Killer Jam, the first in her new Dewberry Farm Mystery Series. Houston reporter Lucy Resnick is done with fast-paced city life >>>  she’s ready to retire to a more quiet countryside living, and has cashed in her early retirement to buy her grandmother’s farm in Buttercup, Texas. Unfortunately, when a local oil executive who hoped to buy out the farm and replace it with an oil derrick turns up dead, Lucy will be the most obvious suspect, forcing her to get to the bottom of the murder to help clear her name and keep the family business open! Karen MacInerney also writes the Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series, starring Natalie Barnes, the owner of a small bed and breakfast.

If you would like to see what some of our Cozy Mystery authors have in store for us, in regards to NEW Cozy Mystery series, click on this link to go to my New Cozy Mystery Book Series page on the site.

July 2015 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in July 2015:

Allyson K. Abbott (aka Annelise Ryan): In the Drink (This will be the 3rd in the Mack’s Bar Mystery Series.)

Cathy Ace: The Case of the Dotty Dowager (This will be the 1st in the NEW WISE Enquiries Agency Mystery Series.)

Donna Andrews: Lord of the Wings (This will be the 19th in the Meg Langslow Mystery Series.) (Actually, August 4)

Christy Barritt: Dust and Obey (This will be the 10th in the Squeaky Clean Mystery Series.)

Carrie Bebris: The Suspicion at Sanditon, (Or, The Disappearance of Lady Denham) (This will be the 7th in the Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery Series)

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): Spellcasting in Silk (This will be the 7th in the Witchcraft Mystery Series.)

Stephen Booth: The Murder Road (This will be the 16th in the Cooper & Fry Mystery Series.)

Simon Brett: Blotto, Twinks and the Heir to the Tsar (This will be the 6th in the Blotto and Twinks Mystery Series.)

Leslie Budewitz: Butter Off Dead (This will be the 3rd in the Food Lovers’ Village Mystery Series.)

Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib): Fatal Reservations (This will be the 6th in the Key West Food Critic Mystery Series.)

Ellen Byerrum: The Dollhouse in the Crawlspace (This will be a non-Cozy Stand-Alone novel.)

Dorothy Cannell: Death at Dovecote Hatch (This will be the 2nd in the Florence Norris Mystery Series.)

Bailey Cates (aka Cricket McRae): Magic and Macaroons (This will be the 5th in the Magical Bakery Mystery Series.)

Mary Higgins Clark: Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories (This is a collection of mystery stories.)

Kathi Daley: Much Ado About Felines (This will be the 4th in the Whales and Tails Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: The Relic (This will be the 3rd in the Seacliff High Mystery Series for young adults.) (This is a Thanksgiving themed mystery.)

Lindsey Davis: Deadly Election (This will be the 3rd in the Flavia Albia Mystery Series.)

Jana DeLeon: Malevolent (This will be the 1st in the NEW Shaye Archer Mystery Series.)

Lesley A. Diehl: A Sporting Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Eve Appel Mystery Series.)

Kate Ellis: Walking by Night (This will be the 5th in the Joe Plantagenet Mystery Series.)

Shelley Freydont: Trawling for Trouble (This will be a novella in the Celebration Bay Mystery Series.)

Susan Furlong (aka Lucy Arlington): Peaches and Scream (This will be the 1st in the NEW Georgia Peach Mystery Series.)

Ann Granger: Dead In the Water (This will be the 4th in the Campbell and Carter Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper): Death of an English Muffin (This will be the 3rd in the Merry Muffin Mystery Series.)

Sherry Harris: The Longest Yard Sale (This will be the 2nd in the Garage Sale Mystery Series.) (Actually, June 30)

Betty Hechtman: Wound Up In Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Yarn Retreat Mystery Series.)

Julie Hyzy: Grace Cries Uncle (This will be the 6th in the Manor House Mystery Series.)

J.A. Jance: Dance of the Bones  (This will be the 22nd in the J.P. Beaumont Mystery Series and the 5th in the Walker Mystery Series.)

J.A. Jance: The J.A. Jance Casebook (This includes 10 short stories, fiction and non-fiction.)

Tonya Kappes: A Charming Fatality (This will be the 7th in the Magical Cures Mystery Series.)

Jonathan Kellerman: The Right Thing to Do (This will be a prequel short story to The Murderer’s Daughter.)

Diane Kelly: Upholding the Paw (This will be a Paw Enforcement Mystery Series novella.)

Victoria Laurie: Sense of Deception (This will be the 13th in the Psychic Eye Mystery Series.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Fatal Fairies (This will be the 8th in the Renaissance Faire Mystery Series.)

Anna Loan-Wilsey: A Deceptive Homecoming (This will be the 4th in the Hattie Darvish Mystery Series.)

Virginia Lowell: Dead Men Don’t Eat Cookies (This will be the 6th in the Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery Series.)

Karen MacInerney: Killer Jam (This will be the 1st in the NEW Dewberry Farm Mystery Series.)

Jennifer McAndrews: Death Under Glass (This will be the 2nd in the Stained-Glass Mystery Series.)

Susan McBride: Say Yes to the Death (This will be the 6th in the Debutante Dropout Mystery Series.)

Catriona McPherson: Dandy Gilver & the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom (This will be the 9th in the Dandy Gilver Mystery Series.)

Terrie Farley Moran: Caught Read-Handed (This will be the 2nd in the Read ‘Em and Eat Mystery Series.)

Marcia Muller: Someone Always Knows (This will be the 32nd in the Sharon McCone Mystery Series.)

Sara Paretsky: Brush Back (This will be the 17th in the V.I. Warshawski Mystery Series.)

Kate Parker: The Royal Assassin (This will be the 3rd in the Victorian Bookshop Mystery Series.)

James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein: Lights Out (This will be the 7th in the Daniel X Series for teens.)

Thomas Perry: The Book of the Lion (This will be a Stand-Alone novella.)

Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams): Scents and Sensibility (This will be the 7th in the Chet and Bernie Mystery Series.)

Hannah Reed (aka Deb Baker): Hooked on Ewe (This will be the 2nd in the Scottish Highlands Mystery Series.)

David Rosenfelt: Who Let the Dog Out? (This will be the 13th in the Andy Carpenter Mystery Series.)

David Rosenfelt: Lessons from Tara: Life Advice from the World’s Most Brilliant Dog (This is a Stand Alone non-mystery.)

Alexander McCall Smith: The Novel Habits of Happiness (This will be the 10th in the Isobel Dalhousie Series. This is not a mystery.)

Karen Rose Smith: Drape Expectations (This will be the 4th in the Caprice De Luca Mystery Series.)

Marcia Talley: Daughter of Ashes (This will be the 14th in the Hannah Ives Mystery Series.)

Aimée & David Thurlo: Looking Through Darkness (This will be a Stand Alone or New Series mystery.)

June Thomson: Sherlock Holmes and the Lady in Black (This will be an entry in the Sherlock Holmes Series.)

Kari Lee Townsend: Perish in the Palm (This is the 4th in the Fortune Teller Mystery Series.)

Peter Tremayne: The Devil’s Seal (This will be the 25th in the Sister Fidelma Mystery Series.)

Christine Wenger: Macaroni and Freeze (This will be the 4th in the Comfort Food Mystery Series.)

Lauren Willig: The Other Daughter (This will be a Stand Alone novel.)

Lois Winston: A Stitch to Die For (This will be the 5th in the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

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

If you would like to see lots and lots of Cozy Mystery books that are scheduled to be released, 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.)

MENU