I’ve got one new piece of Cozy News for you about a site author!

Karen E. Olson will be starting a new mystery series that will be a “modern take” on Henry VIII and his wives, apparently taking place in modern day Greenwich, Connecticut, when he and his sixth wife discover a headless body when visiting his summer home as part of their honeymoon. Olson hasn’t written much in the “Cozy” space for a while – she does have two other mystery series on the site, the first of which is the Tattoo Shop Mystery Series, starring a tattoo shop manager in Las Vegas, and the Annie Seymour Mystery Series, starring a reporter in Connecticut. She has written a few things in the meantime, but this will be the first “Cozy” sounding mystery from her in a decade.

I’ve got two more pieces of good news about established Cozy Mystery site authors!

First, Peggy Ehrhart will be putting out at least two new Knit & Nibble Cozy Mysteries, plus an Easter-themed novella, over the course of 2024 to 2026. This will bring the series starring Pamela Patterson, a widow, empty nester, associate editor of a craft magazine, and founder of a knitting club to at least 12 entries. 

 

Lynn Cahoon will be writing three more entires in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series, which will bring the series to at least 17 entries. Cahoon is also the author of the Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series, the Cat Latimer Mystery Series, the Kitchen Witch Mystery Series, and the Survivors’ Book Club Mystery Series.

I’ve got two pieces of good news about site authors this month!

First, Leslie Budewitz has two more books planned for the Spice Shop Mystery Series, which will bring the series to at least 8 entries. Supposedly, the two last entries are tentatively titled To Err is Cumin and Lavender Lies Bleeding.

Terrie Farley Moran will be continuing to write the Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series, having been approved to write three more entries in the long-running series begun by “Jessica Fletcher” and Donald Bain.