August has a fair amount of news for Cozy Mystery fans…

First up, Allison Brook (aka Marilyn Levinson) will be releasing A Deadly Event. I’m not sure if this is going to be part of the Haunted Library Mystery Series, but it is going to be about a doctor dying in a chocolate fountain and the sleuth is going to be a librarian, so it certainly seems likely to be the 5th entry in the Haunted Library Mystery Series.

Next up, Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence) has confirmed that she will be adding a 13th book to the Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series, with an entry titled For Batter or Worse. Melanie Cooper and her fiance will need to solve a murder while preparing for their wedding.

 

 

Terrie Farley Moran will be taking over the “Murder, She Wrote” book series, starting with Murder: She Wrote: A Killing in a Koi Pond, in which an old college friend who Jessica is visiting becomes the primary witness in her husband’s murder.

 

 

Finally, Ashley Weaver will be starting a new series starting with A Peculiar Combination, in which a safecracker working with the British government during the WWII Blitz in London to help expose a German spy in exchange for her freedom.

It’s a great month for Cozy Mystery news, as I have six pieces of news to share with you all about established Cozy Mystery authors!

First Leslie Budewitz will be releasing a stand-alone novel titled Bitterroot Lake, which will star a young widow who has returned to her family’s lakeside lodge in Montana to seek solace for her deceased husband and to reconnect with estranged friends. Suffice to say, murder brings her to learn new things about the friends she had lost contact with.

 

Next, Lynn Cahoon will be writing several new books, confirming at least one more book in the Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series, bringing the series to at least seven, and several more in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series, taking the series to at least a total of 13 novels.

 

 

G. M. Malliet will be putting out a fourth entry in the St. Just Mystery Series, titled St. Just in Cornwall. This is especially noteworthy as it will be the first release for this series in over a decade, as the last entry came out in 2010. It will bring the series to a total of four entries.

 

Rose Pressey will be releasing at least one more in her Haunted Craft Fiar Mystery Series, which will bring the series to a total of four entries to date.

 

 

 

 

Clea Simon has announced two new upcoming novels – the third entry of the Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Series, titled A Cat on the Case, and a stand alone novel titled Hold Me Down. Hold Me Down will star a former star who is looking into a mysterious death with links to her past.

 

Finally, Nicola Upson will be putting out two more entries in the 1930s period mystery series, the Josephine Tey Mystery Series. The first of those will be titled The Secrets of Winter, and will bring the series to at least ten entries.

We have a decent amount of Cozy Mystery news for June – three pieces, in fact!

First, Cathy Ace‘s Cait Morgan Mystery Series has been picked up by Free@Last TV, the same company that produced the Agatha Raisin television series. Episodes should be about an hour and a half. Cait Morgan is a professor in British Columbia, Canada. This is really good news for fans of the series, as it hasn’t had an entry since 2016 – though another entry will be coming out later this month, The Corpse with the Crystal Skull.

Next up, Parnell Hall (aka J. P. Hailey) will be putting out a standalone thriller, Chasing Jack, on September 1st of this year. Though I don’t cover thrillers as much as I do Cozies, I think this is worth mentioning because Hall is also the author of the Puzzle Lady Mystery Series.

 

 

Finally, Paige Shelton will be writing more entries in the Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series, and has committed to writing up to eight. Since only five have come out so far, that means we’ll have three more to look forward to in years to come! Unfortunately, no titles yet for the upcoming entries in the series beyond Deadly Editions, which is due out in April.

May is a bit better than last month for Cozy Mystery News – this month we’ve got three pieces of news for site authors!

First, Frances Brody will be adding two more books in the Kate Shackleton Mystery  Series, which stars a widow in a small village in post-WWI England. This will be the thirteenth novel in the series.

 

 

 

Next, Sarah Fox will be adding two more books to her Literary Pub Mystery Series, which stars a pub owner catering to lovers of literature in Vermont. This will bring the series to a total of five entries. She’s also the author of the Pancake House Mystery Series, and the Music Lover’s Mystery Series.

 

 

Finally, Elizabeth George (who isn’t really Cozy in my mind, but still very much a favorite!) will be putting out the 21st in her long-running Inspector Lynley Mystery Series, titled Something to Hide. This is quite good news, as this series has been slowing down a bit relatively recently – but still just as appreciated when it arrives!