Another month gone by already! It is almost to the point in San Antonio when I can start looking forward to reasonable temperatures (<90 degrees – probably in another three or four weeks)! If it weren’t for my daughter coming home for a few weeks in September (before moving up to the D.C. area), I’d really be looking forward to October because the weather usually breaks around here by then.

Although I have been doing a lot of summertime reading, this month I have focused on a few new-to-me authors. In fact, right now I have been trying another new-to-me author, and I just have not gotten to the point yet of being able to decide whether I can recommend this author, or not.

So, it’s the time when the rest of us would love to hear about books you’ve read this month that you really enjoyed. If you have one or two Cozy Mysteries that you read during August that you think the rest of us should definitely know about, please drop us a comment telling us why you liked the book(s) >>> so we can take a look at it/them. If you have a few more than two, go for it! Please list the ones you liked the most at the very top of the list, that way we’ll know those are the ones you liked the best!

As usual, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.

What really good Cozy Mystery book did you read during August 2015 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:

Ellery Adams: Book Retreat Mystery Series

Barbara Allan: Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery Series

Lucy Arlington (aka Susan Furlong): Novel Idea Mystery Series

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series

Richard L. Baldwin: Murder at the Ingham County Fair (possibly not Cozy)

Lorna Barrett (aka Lorraine Bartlett & L.L. Bartlett): Booktown Mystery Series

Kathleen Bridge: Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery (Better Homes and Corpses, book #1)

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series

Frances Brody: Kate Shackleton Mystery Series

Ellen Byron: Cajun Country Mystery Series

Lynn Cahoon: Tourist Trap Mystery Series

Dorothy Cannell: Florence Norris Mystery Series

Kate Carlisle: Bibliophile Mystery Series

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series

Isis Crawford (aka Laura Bradford): Mystery with Recipes Mystery Series

Lila Dare (aka Laura DiSilverio & Ella Barrick): Southern Beauty Shop Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Paws and Claws Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Domestic Diva Mystery Series

Wendy Sand Eckel: Murder at Barclay Meadow

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Appleseed Creek Mystery Series

Susan Furlong (aka Lucy Arlington): Georgia Peach Mystery Series

Carolyn Hart: Death on Demand Mystery Series

A.L. Herbert: Mahalia Watkins Soul Food Mystery Series

Lee Hollis: Hailey Powell Food & Cocktail Mystery Series

Julie Hyzy: White House Chef Mystery Series

Darynda Jones: Charley Davidson Series (First Grave on the Right, book #1) (paranormal romantic suspense)

Jerusha Jones: Mayfield Mystery Series (Bait & Switch, book #1)

Sofie Kelly (aka Sofie Ryan): Magical Cats Mystery Series

Joyce and James Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Pumpkin Patch Mystery Series

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series

Dixie Lyle: Whiskey, Tango, and Foxtrot Mystery Series

Mary Marks: Martha Rose Quilting Mystery Series

Margaret Maron: Deborah Knott Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Hat Shop Mystery Series

Carlene O’Neil: Cypress Cove Mystery Series

Katherine Hall Page: Faith Fairchild Mystery Series

Sandra Parshall: Rachel Goddard Mystery Series (The Heat of the Moon, book #1)

Hannah Reed (aka Deb Baker): Scottish Highlands Mystery Series

Maggie Sefton: Knitting Mystery Series

Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mystery Series

Leann Sweeney: Cats in Trouble Mystery Series

Lea Wait: Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]

I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month.

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

P.S. I won’t be commenting on your recommendations since your comments speak for themselves!

Can you believe it’s been a whole month since we last talked about the Cozy Mystery books that we thought were so good we just had to recommend them? I can’t!

I’ve tried a few new-to-me Cozy authors this past month who I’m still deciding whether or not to add to my favorite authors list. I have so many favorite Cozy authors already, I’m just not sure I can handle any more! (That’s a good problem to have!)

Anyway, if you have one or two Cozy Mysteries that you read during July that you think the rest of us should certainly know about, please drop us a comment telling us why you liked the book(s) >>> so we can take a look at it/them. If you have a few more than two, go for it! Please list the ones you liked the most at the very top of the list, that way we’ll know those are super-duper good Cozies!

As usual, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.

What really good Cozy Mystery book did you read during July 2015 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:

Ellery Adams (aka Jennifer Stanley & J.B. Stanley): Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery Series

Gretchen Archer: Davis Way Crime Caper Mystery Series

Donald Bain & “Jessica Fletcher”: Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series

Jenna Bennett (aka Jennie Bentley & Bente Gallagher): Savannah Martin Mystery Series

Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber): Magic Potion Mystery Series

Leslie Budewitz: Food Lovers’ Village Mystery Series

Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib): Key West Food Critic Mystery Series

Lynn Cahoon: Tourist Trap Mystery Series

Kate Carlisle: Fixer-Upper Mystery Series

Sammi Carter: Candy Shop Mystery Series

Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series

Bailey Cates (aka Cricket McRae & Bailey Cattrell): Magical Bakery Mystery Series

Kerry J Charles: Dulcie Chambers Mystery Series

Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra): Candy Coated Mystery Series

Isis Crawford (aka Barbara Block): Mystery with Recipes Mystery Series

Mary Daheim: Emma Lord Alpine Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Domestic Diva Mystery Series

Carola Dunn: Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series

Monica Ferris: Needlecraft Mystery Series

Shelley Freydont: Celebration Bay Mystery Series

Susan Furlong (aka Lucy Arlington): Georgia Peach Mystery Series

Anne George: Southern Sisters Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Corinna Chapman Mystery Series

Betty Hechtman: Yarn Retreat Mystery Series

Mary Ellen Hughes: Pickled and Preserved Mystery Series

Julie Hyzy: Manor of Murder Mystery Series

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Series

Tonya Kappes: Ghostly Southern Mystery Series

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series

Susan Elia MacNeal: Maggie Hope Mystery Series

Leslie Meier: Lucy Stone Mystery Series

Nancy J. Parra (aka Nancy Coco): Baker’s Treat Mystery Series

Penny Pike (aka Penny Warner): Food Festival Mystery Series

Hannah Reed (aka Deb Baker): Scottish Highlands Mystery Series

Stanton Samenow: Inside the Criminal Mind (Forensic Psychology)

Paige Shelton: Farmers’ Market Mystery Series

Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Mystery Series

Diana Xarissa: Isle of Man Mystery Series

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]

I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month.

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

P.S. I won’t be commenting on your recommendations since your comments speak for themselves!

This is one of my favorite monthly entries of the Cozy Mystery site. I absolutely love to read about the Cozies that you ALL consider your best finds for the designated month. I find most of my new-to-me Cozy authors from this entry. I can get a pretty good feel of whether I’ll enjoy a book from reading your reasons for liking your recommended Cozies.

We’d love to read about your favorite Cozy Mystery books for the month of June. If you have more than one Cozy you think is particularly good, please put the one you liked the most at the very top of your list.

Please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.

What really good Cozy Mystery book did you read during June 2015 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:

Barbara Allan: Trash ‘N’ Treasures Mystery Series

Lorna Barrett (aka Lorraine Bartlett & L. L. Bartlett): Booktown Mystery Series

Jenna Bennett (aka Jennie Bentley & Bente Gallagher): Savannah Martin Mystery Series

Claudia Bishop (aka Mary Stanton): Hemlock Falls Mystery Series

Lawrence Block: Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery Series

Duffy Brown: Consignment Shop Mystery Series

Kate Carlisle: Bibliophile Mystery Series

Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra): Candy-Coated Mystery Series

Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series

J.J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & Ellie Grant): Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mystery Series

Isis Crawford (aka Barbara Block): Mystery with Recipes Mystery Series

Mary Daheim: Emma Lord Mystery Series

Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Domestic Diva Mystery Series

Hannah Dennison: Honeychurch Hall Mystery Series

Mae Fox & Jan Fields: Vineyard Quilt Mystery Series

Emma Jameson: Lord and Lady Hetheridge Mystery Series (Ice Blue, book #1)

Sofie Kelly (Sofie Ryan): Magical Cats Mystery Series

Annie Knox (aka Wendy Lyn Watson): Pet Boutique Mystery Series

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Missing Pieces Mystery Series

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J. J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Peggy Lee Garden Mystery Series

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Local Foods Mystery Series

Julie Moffett: Lexie Carmichael Mystery Series (No One Lives Twice, book #1)

Tim Myers (aka Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, Chris Cavender, Casey Mayes, Jessica Beck, & D.B. Morgan): Candlemaking Mystery Series

Kathryn O’Sullivan: Colleen McCabe Mystery Series (Foal Play, book #1)

Katherine Hall Page: Faith Fairchild Mystery Series

Nancy J. Parra (aka Nancy Coco): Baker’s Treat Mystery Series

Penny Pike (aka Penny Warner): Food Festival Mystery Series

Linda Reilly: Deep Fried Mystery Series (Fillet of Murder, book #1)

M.L. Rowland: Search and Rescue Mystery Series (Murder Off the Beaten Path, book #2)

Annelise Ryan (aka Allyson K. Abbott): Mattie Wintson Mystery Series

Jeff Shelby (aka Jeffrey Allen): Moose River Mystery Series

Ashley Weaver: Murder at the Brightwell

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]

I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month.

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

P.S. I try to respond to all of the comments on the Cozy Mystery blog except for the comments on the monthly recommendation entries because they speak for themselves!

This month has been pretty hectic for me so I feel like my Cozy Mystery reading sort of was put on a type of semi hold. Also, I ventured out of my Cozy Mystery realm, and tried a few non mysteries. I am currently back to my Cozies, and am reading one of my favorite Cozy authors right now.

How about you? Did you find a particularly good Cozy Mystery this month? Was it the type of Cozy that stands way out from the other Cozies you have read this month? If you did find a Cozy Mystery that good, would you please write a comment and tell us why you think this book is so much better than the rest of the Cozy Mysteries you read during May 2015? The rest of us would love to hear about it! Let’s face it, we’re all looking for a great Cozy Mystery read!

And, since some of you have read several Cozies this month that you think are terrific, would you please put the one you liked the very best at the top of your list? That way the rest of us will know that you think that Cozy is particularly greeeeeaaaaat!

As usual, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you read this month that you did not like.

What really good Cozy Mystery book did you read during May 2015 that you know the rest of us would enjoy reading, and why did you enjoy it?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:

Lucy Arlington: Novel Idea Mystery Series

Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber): Magical Potions Mystery Series

Simon Brett: Mrs. Pargeter Mystery Series

Rita Mae Brown: Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series

Anne Canadeo (aka Katherine Spencer): Black Sheep Knitting Mystery Series

Janet Cantrell (aka Kaye George): Fat Cat Mystery Series

Kate Carlisle: Bibliophile Mystery Mystery Series

Laura Childs: Tea Shop Mystery Series

Hy Conrad: Mr. Monk Mystery Series

Ellen Crosby: Sophie Medina Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Domestic Diva Mystery Series

Peter Dickinson: Princess Louise Mystery Series (King and Joker, book #1)

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Penny Brannigan Mystery Series

Sally Goldenbaum: Seaside Knitters Mystery Series

Rebecca M. Hale: Cats and Curios Mystery Series

Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper & Donna Lea Simpson): Vintage Kitchen Mystery Series

Charlaine Harris: Aurora Teagarden Mystery Series

Joan Hess: Claire Malloy Mystery Series

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Series

Craig Johnson: Wait for Signs (12 Longmire stories in the Longmire Mystery Series)

Alex A. King: Kat Mafris Greek Mafia Mystery Series (Disorganized Crime, book #1)

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Murder at the orient express

G.A. McKevett: Savannah Reid Mystery Series

Max McCoy: Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery Series (Of Grave Concern, book #1)

Staci McLaughlin: Blossom Valley Series

Liz Mugavero (aka Cate Conte): Pawsitively Organic Mystery Series

Meg Muldoon: Christmas River Mystery Series (Murder in Christmas River, book #1)

Jeanne Quigley: Veronica Walsh Mystery Series (All Things Murder, book #1)

Kathy Reichs: Temperance Brennen Mystery Series

Barbara Ross: Maine Clambake Mystery Series

Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Mystery Series

Lea Wait: Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]

I encourage all of you to read the comments below, since it’s a great way to “hear” about Cozies that stand out from the crowd.

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

P.S. I usually respond to all of the comments on the Cozy Mystery blog, but I don’t respond to the comments on these monthly recommendation entries because they speak for themselves!