It’s another fairly slow news month, but I do have a few pieces to share – both about the same author.

First off, Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib) will be putting out a book about “food, friendship, and the meaning of happiness” about a psychologist leading a support group of unhappy women, titled Ingredients of Happiness. There isn’t anything about any sort of mystery in any description I can find of this particular book, so I wouldn’t normally mention it this far in advance, but I thought I might as well mention it, since the other piece of news I have is…

Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib) will be putting out two more entries in her now long-running Key West Food Critic Mystery Series, which will bring the series starring Haley Snow, a food critic and sleuth in Key West, Florida, to a total of 15 entries. If you want to know more about my thoughts on this series, I would recommend reading my blog entry on it from a few years ago!

I don’t have too much news this month, but what I do have is very good! Two pieces of news this month – both about the same author, which is a rarity!

Ellen Byron (aka Maria DiRico) will be putting out another entry in the Catering Hall Mystery Series (which she writes under the name Maria DiRico), titled The Witless Protection Program. With the other still-unreleased title Four Parties and a Funeral, this will bring the series to a total of five entries!

 

Byron will also be starting another new series (under the name Ellen Byron) which will consist of at least three entries, with the first book titled A Very Woodsy Murder. Hollywood TV employee Dee Stern leaves the big city for a small California town with a rustic flavor on the edge of a national park. Her plans are to buy and fix up a rustic old motel into a tourist destination for her former LA crowd, but the plans are potentially derailed by an unexpected death.

Here’s some good news about upcoming releases by site authors!

First, Lynn Cahoon will be releasing Two Christmas Mittens, a novella in her Kitchen Witch Mystery Series, which stars Mia Malone, a cook and witch in Magic Springs, Idaho. When a pair of apparently-cursed mittens (the previous owner died unexpectedly, and the current owner fears she will be next) crosses Mia’s path, she’ll need to discover how to fix the situation for a happy holiday.

LynDee Walker will be starting a new series with Bruce Robert Coffin, with the first entry titled The General’s Gold. a tech billionaire and a social media influencer will work together to both seek out a treasure and investigate the murder of a friend.

I have a few pieces of good news regarding established site authors!

First, Joyce Tremel will be starting a new mystery series, the Cider House Mystery Series. The first entry, Deadly to the Core, will introduce the sleuth, a woman inheriting an orchard. Tremel is already the author of the Brewing Trouble Mystery Series, which stars a brewmaster and brew house owner in Pittsburgh.

 

G. M. Malliet will be writing a new entry in her Max Tudor Mystery Series, titled The Washing Away of Wrongs, which will be a return to this series after at least four years (the last release was in 2018). Malliet is also the author of the St. Just Mystery Series.