I have two pieces of good news for you from an established Cozy Mystery authors!

First, Carol J. Perry will be starting a new spin-off series of her popular Witch City Mystery Series. As yet no name for the series or the individual books have been released, but it has been approved for three entries and will presumably feature familiar characters from the Witch City series, which stars Lee Barrett, field reporter at Slam’s WICH-TV, and her psychic feline sidekick O’Ryan.

And secondly, Leslie Budewitz will be putting out All God’s Sparrows and Other Stories: A Stagecoach Mary Fields collection. This will include the 2018 Agatha-Award winner, “All God’s Sparrows”, plus other new and previously published stories in a collected format. “All God’s Sparrows” stars real-life historical figure Mary Fields, a former slave who moved to Montana in the late 19th century.

I have one piece of good news for you from an established Cozy Mystery author – well, technically two pieces of good news, but about the same author!

Clea Simon will be releasing two novels that appear to be disconnected from any of her existing series, which should be coming out in 2024 and 2025. The first will be Bad Boy Beat, starring a rookie female reporter assigned to the police beat, while the second will be The Blue Butterfly, which will be a darker psychological suspense about a struggling Boston artist and a doctor in training. Simon has written a number of mystery series over the years, including the Pru Marlowe, Pet Noir Mystery Series, the Dulcie Shwartz Mystery Series, and the Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Series.

I’m very happy to be able to give you three pieces of great news from establish Cozy Mystery authors this month!

First, Ellen Byron (aka Maria DiRico) will be putting out at least two more entries in her award-winning Vintage Cookbook Mystery Series, with the third in this series to be named French Quarter Fright Night and the fourth Beignets and Bribes. Ellen Byron also writes the Cajun Country Mystery Series, starring the manager of a family owned bed and breakfast in Louisiana, and (as Maria DiRico) the Catering Hall Mystery Series, starring a worker at a catering hall in Astoria, in New York City.

Next up, Lynn Cahoon will be putting out a new series, with at least three entries confirmed, the first of which will be titled An Amateur Sleuth’s Guide to Murder. This will introduce us to an amateur sleuth who has just broken off an engagement and is beginning a new career as a crime-solver in her hometown of Bainbridge, Washington. Cahoon is also the author of the Kitchen Witch Mystery Series, starring a cook and witch in Magic Springs, Idaho, the Survivors’ Book Club Mystery Series, starring a breast cancer survivor in Sedona, New Mexico, the Tourist Trap Mystery Series, starring the owner of a coffee and book shop in South Cove, California, the Cat Latimer Mystery Series, starring a former English professor in Colorado, and the Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series, starring the owner of a farm to table restaurant in Idaho.

Finally, Leslie Karst will also be starting a new mystery series, titled the Orchid Isle Mystery Series, set on the Big Island of Hawai’i and starring a female caterer and her wife. The first two entries of this series will be Molten Death and Waters of Destruction. Karst is also the author of the Sally Solari Mystery Series, starring the front manager of an old-style Italian eatery in Santa Cruz, California.