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January 2015 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in January 2015:

Beverly Allan: For Whom the Bluebell Tolls (This will be the 2nd in the Bridal Bouquet Shop Mystery Series.)

Christy Barritt: Dubiosity (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Mike Befeler: Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Melissa Bourbon: A Seamless Murder (This will be the 6th in the Magical Dressmaking Mystery Series.)

Alan Bradley: As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (This will be the 7th in the Flavia de Luce Mystery Series.)

Kate Carlisle: This Old Homicide (This will be the 2nd in the Fixer-Upper Mystery Series.)

Alys Clare: Blood of the South (This will be the 6th in the Aelf Fen Mystery Series.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Hit and Nun (This will be the 3rd in the Lucille Mystery Series.)

Hy Conrad: Mr. Monk and the New Lieutenant (This will be the 19th in the Mr. Monk Mystery Series.)

Hy Conrad: Toured to Death (This is being touted as the first in the NEW Amy’s Travel Mystery Series, however the book was released in 2012 as Rally ‘Round the Corpse, the first in the Abel Adventures Mystery Series.)

J.J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & Ellie Grant): In Hot Water (This will be the 3rd in the Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mystery Series.)

J.J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & Ellie Grant): Gator Bowl(This will be the prequel novella in the Biscuit Bowl Food Truck Mystery Series.)

Lesley Cookman: Murder Out of Tune (This will be the 14th in the Libby Sarjeant Mysteries Series. The Kindle has been available since last year.)

Kathi Daley: Romeow and Juliet (This will be the NEW 1st in the Whales and Tails Mystery Series.)

Tim Dorsey: Shark Skin Suite (This will be the 18th in the Serge A. Storms Mystery Series.)

Kate Ellis: The Death Season (This will be the 19th in the Wesley Peterson Mystery Series.)

Jean G. Goodhind: Death of a Diva (This will be the 10th in the Honey Driver Mystery Series.)

Sarah Graves: Winter at the Door (This will be the 1st in the NEW Lizzie Snow Mystery Series.)

Parnell Hall: Puzzled Indemnity (This will be the 16th in the Puzzle Lady Mystery Series.)

Tessa Harris: Shadow of the Raven (This will be the 5th in the Dr. Thomas Silkstone Mystery Series.)

Tami Hoag: Cold, Cold Heart (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Julie Hyzy: All the President’s Menus (This will be the 8th in the White House Chef Mystery Series.)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Ghost in the Guacamole (This will be the 5th in the Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Series.)

Miranda James: Arsenic and Old Books (This will be the in the Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series)

Victoria Laurie: No Ghouls Allowed (This will be the 9th in the Ghost Hunter Mystery Series.)

Victoria Laurie: When (This will be the 1st in the NEW Maddie Flynn Mystery Series. This is a Young Adult mystery series.)

Elizabeth Lee (aka Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli): Snoop to Nuts (This will be the 2nd in the Nut House Mystery Series.)

Tyora Moody: Oven Baked Secrets (This will be the 2nd in the  Eugeena Patterson Mystery Series.)

Amy Myers: Classic Cashes In (This will be the 6th in the Jack Colby, Car Detective Mystery Series.)

Carla Neggers: Echo Lake (This will be the 4th in the Swift River Valley series – romance.)

Joyce Carol Oates: The Sacrifice (This will be a Stand Alone novel.) (Not Cozy.)

Cate Price: Lie of the Needle (This will be the 3rd in the Deadly Notions Mystery Series.)

Phil Rickman: Night after Night (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Delia Rosen: Fry Me a Liver (This will be the 6th in the Deadly Deli Mystery Series.)

Karen Rose Smith: Gilt by Association (This will be the 3rd in the Caprice De Luca Mystery Series.) (This is a Valentine’s Day themed mystery.)

Charles Todd: A Fine Summer’s Day (This will be the 17th in the Ian Rudledge Mystery Series.)

Diane Vallere: Some Like It Haute (This will be the 4th in the Style & Error Mystery Series.)

Lea Wait: Twisted Threads (This will be the 1st in the NEW Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series.)

Christine Wenger: Diners, Drive-Ins, and Death (This will be the 3rd in the Comfort Food Mystery Series.)

To go back to the Cozy Mystery New Book Release page, click here.

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

Two New Cozy Mystery Series Coming in December 2014

December will soon be upon us, so what better time for me to tell you about two new Cozy Mystery series that will make their debut during that month. These two new Cozy Mystery series are written by three authors with whom most of you are already very familiar. One of these authors is Duffy Brown, and the other two authors are the Lavenes: Joyce and Jim.

Duffy Brown will be releasing the first book in her second series, entitled Geared for the Grave. The Cycle Path Mystery Series will take place on lovely Mackinac Island. Our sleuth, Evie Bloomfield, works at Rudy’s Rides bike shop on the island, but quickly sees she’s going to have to be good at sleuthing in order to keep her employer out of jail. Some of you may be familiar with Brown’s Consignment Shop Mystery Series, starring Reagan Summerside, owner of Prissy Fox Consignment Shop. Brown’s debut series has already earned her plenty of fans – let’s hope her second sleuth, bike shop employee Evie Bloomfield, leaves just as strong an impression!

The other new series beginning in December will be released by Joyce and Jim Lavene. This will be their seventh (or eighth?) series >>> and that’s only including the books they’ve written under the Lavene name, not the ones they’ve also written as J.J. Cook and Ellie Grant! Titled Spell Booked, this book will begin the Retired Witches Mystery Series starring Molly and Elsie, operators of a curio shop who are also (you guessed it!) retired witches who sometimes solve crimes.

If you would like to see more New Cozy Mystery Series by authors on the Cozy-Mystery site, click here: New Cozy Mystery Series

Also, if you would like to see the entry I wrote about the new Cozy Mystery series some of our favorite authors are bringing to us this month (November 2014) click on this link:

Two New Cozy Mystery Series Coming in November 2014

December 2014 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in December 2014:

Isabella Alan (aka Amanda Flower): Murder, Served Simply (This will be the 3rd in the Amish Quilt Shop Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Jo Bannister: Perfect Sins (This will be the 2nd in the Gabriel Ash & Hazel Best Mystery Series.)

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): Keeper of the Castle (This will be the 5th in the Haunted Home Renovation Mystery Series.)

Duffy Brown: Geared for the Grave (This will be the 1st in the NEW Cycle Path Mystery Series.)

Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib): Death with All the Trimmings (This will be the 5th in the Key West Food Critic Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Laura Childs: Scorched Eggs (This will be the 6th in the Cackleberry Club Mystery Series.)

Jane K. Cleland: Blood Rubies (This will be the 9th in the Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series.)

Barbara Cleverly: Enter Pale Death (This will be the 12th in the Joe Sandilands Mystery Series.)

Lesley Cookman: Murder at Mallowan Manor (This will be a short story in the Libby Sarjeant Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery story.)

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Inspector Specter (This will be the 6th in the Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series.)

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Once Upon a Grind (This will be the 14th in the Coffeehouse Mystery Series.)

Waverly Curtis: The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice (This will be the 4th in the Barking Detective Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Alaskan Alliance (This will be the 12th in the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series.) (This is a New Year’s theme mystery.)

Krista Davis: The Ghost and Mrs. Mewer (This will be the 2nd in the Paws and Claws (or the Pet Hotel) Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween mystery.)

Jeffery Deaver: Trouble in Mind: The Collected Stories, Volume 3 (This will be a Short Story Collection.)

Gale Deitch: Fine Dining (This will be the 2nd in the Trudie Fine Mystery Series.)

Christopher Fowler: Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart (This will be the 11th book in the Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery Series.)

Barbara Graham: Murder by Gravity: The Coffin Quilt (This will be the 6th in the Quilted Mystery Series.)

Rebecca M. Hale: Aground on St. Thomas (This will be the 3rd in the Mystery in the Islands Mystery Series.)

Karen Harper: Broken Bonds (This will be the 3rd in the Cold Creek Mystery Series.)

Susan Hill: The Soul of Discretion (This will be the 8th in the Simon Serrailler Mystery Series.)

Kay Hooper: A Deadly Web (This will be the 2nd in the Bishop Files Mystery Series.)

Diane Kelly: Paw and Order (This will be the 2nd in the Megan Luz Paw Enforcement Mystery Series.)

Josi S. Kilpack: Wedding Cake (This will be the 12th in the Culinary Mystery Series.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene: Spell Booked (This will be the 1st in the NEW Retired Witches Mystery Series.)

Edward Marston (aka Conrad Allen & Keith Miles): Deeds of Darkness (This will be the 4th in the Home Front Detective Mystery Series.)

Carla Neggers: Christmas at Carriage Hill (This will be a story in the Swift River Valley Romance Series.) (This is a Christmas theme story.)

Gail Oust: Kill’em with Cayenne (This will be the 2nd in the Piper Prescott Spice Shop Mystery Series.)

James Patterson & Emily Raymond: The Lost (This will be the 5th in the teen sci-fi Witch and Wizard Series.)

Thomas Perry: A String of Beads (This will be the 8th in the Jane Whitefield Mystery Series.)

Ann Purser: Suspicion at Seven (This will be the 14th in the Lois Meade Mystery Series.)

Joanna Campbell Slan: Handmade, Holiday, Homicide (This will be the 10th book in the Scrap-N-Craft Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

To go back to the Cozy Mystery New Book Release page, click here.

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

Christmas Mystery Books being Released during November 2014

Well, November will be upon us soon, and with it we’ll get another batch of holiday themed mystery novels, all of them Christmas-themed this time. We’ll have five new Christmas themed novels, so let’s jump right into it! (Most of you know just how happy “my” holiday Cozy Mysteries make me! Love ’em!)

First, Lynn Cahoon will be releasing If the Shoe Kills , the third book in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series. Though Cahoon only released her first novel earlier this year, she’s already established her Tourist Trap series, starring Jill Gardner. As always, this novel will center around “Coffee, Books, and More,” Jill’s shop. When the unpleasant manager of the unpopular local internship programs turns up dead in his car, everyone seems willing to chalk it up as a suicide – except Jill of course, who will need to get to the (real!) bottom of this case!

 Kathi Daley will be putting out Christmas Cozy, the 11th book in the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series. Zoe’s holiday season is about to take a somewhat grim turn as she goes to visit the Ashton Falls High School Christmas Tree Lot and stumbles across the body of a local teacher. Unfortunately, the lot is run by her best friend, Levi Denton, so she’ll have to work fast to solve this murder in time to insure truly happy holidays! As always, Kathi Daley’s work should include some interesting recipes, presumably Christmas-themed this time around. (Kathi Daley also writes the TJ Jensen Paradise Lake Mystery Series, starring high school teacher and coach, TJ Jensen, and also released the non-mystery Christmas-themed work Road to Christmas Past.)

 J.A. Jance will be releasing a novella in her Ali Reynolds Mystery Series, titled A Last Goodbye. This novella will have a very interesting hook for long-time fans of the Ali Reynolds series, as Ali will be getting married to B. Simpson, her long-time fiance. When a stray miniature dachshund winds up in Ali’s care, it seems like the last thing in the world she needs >>> but as she has trouble returning the stray pet to its owner, she starts wondering if something has been done to her! Hopefully she’ll be able to wrap up the mystery before it interrupts her Christmas wedding! (Jance also writes several other highly popular series, most notably the Joanna Brady Mystery Series, starring an Arizona sheriff, as well as the J. P. Beaumont Mystery Series, starring a Seattle homicide detective.)

Jenn McKinlay‘s next book, On Borrowed Time, will be coming out as well. This will be the fifth book in the Library Lover’s Mystery Series, highlighting the continued adventures of Lindsey Norris, Connecticut-based library director. Christmas is going to be busy this year for Lindsey, as she has a bit of personal trouble to take care of >>> her brother, Jack, has gone missing, forcing her to put all of her other holiday plans out of mind as she tried to find out what has happened to him. (Jenn McKinlay writes a number of other very popular series, including the Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series and the Hat Shop Mystery Series, as well as the Decoupage Mystery Series under the name Lucy Lawrence and the Good Buy Girls Mystery Series as Josie Belle.)

Finally, renowned mystery novelist Anne Perry will be releasing the next in her long-running Christmas Mystery Series, A New York Christmas. As has become custom for Anne Perry’s annual holiday release, A New York Christmas will star a character familiar to her avid readers as a support character from her popular Thomas & Charlotte Pitt Mystery Series, this time Jemima Pitt, Thomas Pitt’s daughter, now 23 years old and visiting America for the marriage of her friend Delphinia. (Anne Perry writes many other series, including the William Monk Mystery Series.)

If you would like to see more Cozy Mystery Christmas-themed books, click on this link to take you to the Christmas Mystery page.

(If you are interested in all sorts of holiday mysteries, click on this link to take you to the Holiday Mystery Book page.)

Also, here are the entries I wrote about the Halloween and Christmas mystery books that will be released during this month – October:

Halloween Mystery Books being Released during October 2014

Christmas Mystery Books being Released during October 2014

Christmas Mystery Books being Released during October 2014 – Part 2

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