Well, it’s a bit late in the month… I’ve been holding this off a while, since I don’t have a lot of big news, but I still have a few bits of Cozy Mystery news to share!

First, Bree Baker (aka Jacqueline Frost, Julie Chase, & Julie Anne Lindsey), will be putting out another three books in her Seaside Cafe Mystery Series, taking the series to a total of seven. The title of one of the new ones will be Partners in Lime, and of course the series will continue featuring seaside ice tea shop owner Everly Swan in Charm, North Carolina. Bree Baker, probably better known to many readers as Julie Anne Lindsey, is the author of many Cozy Mystery Series – including all of her pseudonyms, she has at least nine, though few are more than a few entries long.

Second, Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates), will be starting up a new series, the Catskill Mystery Series, which will star a woman helping run a family resort in the Catskill Mountains. There will be at least two books in the series. Delany already has eight other series, some of which only have a couple of entries, but others that are in the 5-10 books range, as well as a number of stand-alone books.

And… that’s it! Not a whole lot of news this month, but what there is there is good!

I’ve got a slew of good news for upcoming Cozies!

First up, Tasha Alexander will be releasing what sounds like either a new series or a stand-alone novel, Secret of the Nile. That certainly sounds like a very classic Cozy sort of plot in the Christie-era tradition! Tasha Alexander’s current series is the Lady Emily Ashton Mystery Series, another classic sort of series starring a Victorian England aristocrat.

Next up, Ellen Byron (aka Maria DiRico), a friend of the site, will be putting out another in her Cajun Kiss of Death, another entry in her Cajun Country Mystery Series starring the manager of her family’s plantation-turned-bed-and-breakfast in Louisiana. As Maria DiRico, she also writes the Catering Hall Mystery Series, starring a manager at a catering hall in Astoria, New York City.

Victoria Gilbert will be putting out at least two more entries in her Book Lover’s B&B Mystery Series, one of which will be titled A Stay With Death, starring the owner of a B&B in North Carolina. She will also be starting the Hunter & Clewe Mystery Series, with the first entry A Cryptic Clue, which will star a retired librarian and an eccentric collector of rare books and artifacts.

Carol J. Perry will be putting out a few more entries in the Witch City Mystery Series, including two titled Murder, Take Two, and See Something, in this series starring a reporter and a cat in Salem, Massachusetts. She’ll also be starting a new paranormal mystery series, the Haunted Haven Mystery Series, with the first book titled Be My Ghost.

Barbara Ross will be putting out three more entries in the Maine Clambake Mystery Series, starring the owner of a clambake business in Maine, taking the series to a total of twelve entries. She’s also the author of the new Professional Busybody Mystery Series, starring a retiree in Massachusetts.

Finally, Valerie Wilson Wesley will be starting a new series after a relatively long time away from mysteries. No news so far on the name of the series, but the first entry will be titled A Glimmer of Death, and star a widowed caterer turned realtor, and it sounds like it might have paranormal elements. Wesley’s other mystery series is the Tamara Hayle Mystery Series, which hasn’t had a new entry since 2008.

Wow, I’ve definitely got a lot of Cozy Mystery news to get through this month! I’ve got a lot to get through this month (10 pieces of news!) so I’m going to go through them a little faster than normal.

First up, Laurien Berenson will be adding a 27th entry to the Melanie Travis Mystery Series, an Easter-themed mystery titled Show Me the Bunny. There has been another entry in the series also confirmed, but no word yet on if there will be a holiday theme or what the title might be.

Next, Jeanne M. Dams will be starting a new series, the Oak Park Mystery Series, which will be set in the 1920s, in Oak Park, Illinois, where the sleuth is investigating crimes related to prohibition, including Al Capone’s gang.

Lindsey Davis will be adding two more books to the Flavia Albia Mystery Series, a period piece set in ancient Rome starring a private detective. This will bring the series to a total of nine books.

Eva Gates (aka Vicki Delany) will be putting out at least two more books in the Lighthouse Library Mystery Series, taking the series to a total of at least 9 entries.

Kathleen Ernst will be starting a new series, starring an 1850s immigrant, with a book title Lies of Omission. She’ll also be continuing the Chloe Ellefson Mystery Series with The Weaver’s Revenge, which will be the 10th in the series.

Alyssa Maxwell has had a number of books confirmed – three more in the Gilded Newport Mystery Series, and three in the Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery Series. This will bring both series to at least 9 books each!

Gigi Pandian will be starting a new series, the Secret Staircase Construction Mystery Seriew, with The Vanishing Act of Tempest Raj. This will be a locked room mystery, and stars a woman returning home to help out the family business.

Victoria Thompson will be putting out two more books in the Gaslight Mystery Series, taking the series to at least 25 entries.

Joyce Tremel (writing as Joyce St. Anthony) will be starting a new series with Murder Makes the Headlines, starring a female sleuth at home in America during WWII, taking over her father’s small newspaper.

Finally, Elaine Viets will be putting out books five and six in the Death Investigator Mystery Series, the 5th of which will be titled Death Grip.

 

I have four pieces of Cozy Mystery news to share with you all about established site authors for September.

First, Lorna Barrett (aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorraine Bartlett) will be putting out two more entries in the Booktown Mystery Series, starring Tricia Miles, owner of Haven’t Got a Clue Mysery bookstore, as well as her sister Angelica Preston, which will take the series to a total of 16 entries. Barrett also writes the Victoria Square Mystery Series and Lotus Bay Mystery Series as Lorraine Bartlett, and the Jeff Resnick Mystery Series as L. L. Bartlett.

Next up, Maya Corrigan will be putting out two more books in the Five-Ingredient Mystery Series, taking the series to a total of nine entries. The series stars Val Deniston, manager of a the Cool Down Cafe, a fitness club cafe near Chesapeake Bay.

 

 

Finally Mary Anna Evans will be releasing The Physicists’ War, a mystery set during WWII starring a young woman working in a shipbuilding factory in New Orleans who believes the parts she is assembling aren’t intended for ships, but for a secret government weapons project. I’m not sure yet if this will be a new series or a stand-alone novel, but it sounds interesting. Corrigan already writes the Faye Longchamp Mystery Series, which stars an archaeologist who lives on the gulf coast of Florida.