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Cozy Mystery News – April 2018

It’s spring already! For some of you that means snow is finally drifting into the past, for others, like me, it means flowers are blooming in the trees, bushes, and ground. The beauty of spring time inspires me every year to want to take up gardening. However, the humid heat of most of spring’s days down here in San Antonio quickly brings me back to the realities of spending any more time outdoors than I need to!

Getting back to the purpose of this blog entry, I have a few Cozy Mystery News tidbits to share with you!

I have great news for all of us who are fans of Leslie Budewitz‘s Spice Shop Mystery Series. She has just signed on to write two more Cozies in that series. It’s been a long wait (since 2016) for us to be able to hang-out with Pepper Reece as she sleuths her way to solving mysteries! So, not only do we have As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles to look forward to (Budewitz’s 5th Food Lovers’ Village mystery -set during the Christmas holidays) but now we have these two more Seattle Spice Shop mysteries. Great news!

I happen to know that a lot of you enjoy holiday Cozies as much as I do! So here’s some more really good news: Lynn Cahoon will be releasing three new holiday novellas in her bestselling Tourist Trap Mystery Series. Rockets’ Dead Glare (Fourth of July), A Deadly Brew (Halloween), and Santa Puppy (Christmas). Pretty exciting for us Cozy Mystery holiday-lovers! (Lynn also writes the Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series which takes place in Idaho and features the owner of a farm to table restaurant and the Cat Latimer Mystery Series which features an ex-English professor who owns a bed and breakfast in Colorado.

Sharon Farrow (aka 1/2 of D.E. Ireland), author of the Berry Basket Mystery Series, has gotten the green light to write two more Cozies in this Lake Michigan based Cozy series. This is terrific news for those of us who have been enjoying Marlee Jacob not only running her berry shop but also have enjoyed reading about her mystery-solving exploits! Sharon Farrow, along with Meg Macy write the Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins Mystery Series – as D.E. Ireland.

When Kate Kingsbury stopped writing the Special Pennyfoot Hotel (Holiday) Mystery Series, the Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Series, and her WW II Manor House Mystery Series, I thought a lot of us Cozy Mystery readers would have a real problem! Luckily, she morphed into Rebecca Kent and brought us the Bellehaven House Mystery Series and then she added Allison Kingsley to her monikers and wrote the Raven’s Nest Bookstore Mystery Series. Recently, she has been writing the Merry Ghost Inn Mystery Series (as Kate Kingsbury!) and she will be releasing Be Our Ghost, which is the 3rd Cozy that features Melanie West, a divorcee who co-owns a bed & breakfast with her grandmother. Now this is good news!

Now on to some very-much anticipated news: Rita Lakin is going to be putting out at least two more Cozies in her Gladdy Gold Mystery Series. That’s right! It’s been a long wait for those of us who follow Gladdy and her retirement community cohorts as they sleuth around Florida (and on a cruise ship). The 7th book in the series was released in 2011! I, for one, thought we had possibly seen the last of Gladdy and the girls, so this bit of news really surprised me… a very happy surprise, indeed!

Oh my goodness! T.C. LoTempio will be starting her new Purr ‘n Bark Pet Shop Mystery Series! How neat is this! As most of you know, T.C. writes the Cat Rescue Mystery Series, which stars Sydney McCall and Toby (her Taby) in North Carolina. T.C. also writes the Nick and Nora Mystery Series (That’s right – as in Nick and Nora Charles from The Thin Man movies!) – in which Nora Charles has a sandwich shop in California and Nick is her cat.

And here’s some super great news for those of us who follow the Wrexford & Sloane Mystery Series by Andrea Penrose. There is a new book slated to come out in this historical mystery series! Charlotte Sloane will have to take some time off from “being” A.J. Quill (satirical artist) to again team up with the Earl of Wrexford to solve a crime in Regency London. So, as you see, I mean super great news! Andrea also writes the (Lady Arianna Regency Mystery Series.)

I hope this month’s Cozy Mystery News update has at least one of you favorite authors on it!

P.S. Be sure to visit the Soon to be Released page on my Cozy Mystery site if you want to find out what some of your favorite Cozy Mystery authors will be releasing in the future. I’ve just added a bunch of Cozies to the list, and am in the process of adding even more!

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  2. Beyond thrilled that Rita Lakin will be bringing Goldy back! I love that series. Such fun. thanks for sharing the great news.

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  4. OK…after my wee break last time, we’re back into it full force! I MUST MUST MUST have the Spice Shop Mystery series. And I’ve added both the Cat Rescue Mystery series AND the new Purr ‘n Bark Mystery series to my Lo Tempio page!

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  5. Hi! Have you heard anything about Cate Price and her Deadly Notions series? Love this website and your daily posts!

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  6. OMG NEW GLADDY GOLD BOOKS!!!!!! Oh wow!!!!! (In real time, would the girls still be alive? How much have they aged in “book years” since the last release?) Can’t wait to read these!!!!

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  8. I can’t wait for the Rita Lakin , Glady Gold and the Leslie Budewitz, Spice Shop. Every time I go on line these are two I look for! I adore Goldy and her detectives. I laugh all way through them. And the Spice Shops my grand son lives inSeatle and I can picture it all. Food lovers is always exciting. Can’t wait!

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  9. Excited about the new Leslie Budewitz book as well as Rita Lakin. So many good reads coming out! Thanks for all the updates.

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  10. Happy that there are more Gladdy Gold mysteries on the way! Thanks, Rita Lakin! And, thanks, Danna, for letting us know!

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  12. I just saw this post as a suggested article on my feed and am so happy to have found your blog! I listen to these audiobooks at work all day and am thrilled to have suddenly come across a treasure trove of new books to look up, and there’s so much here to read. Made my whole day!

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  13. Just a concern. I have bought a couple cozy books recently that have too much cussing and a little too much explicit sex…is this a trend? or did I just get unlucky?

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    • Have noticed an unwelcome trend (at least to me) in romantic triangles in quite a few cozies. It’s driving me mad! Maybe I’m just getting old … to me, stringing 2 men along is not cool.

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  14. Hurray!! More Gladdy Gold! Loved this series, thought I’d seen the end of it. Now I can’t wait to read more. Any idea about the release date for the first one?

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    • Sue, I haven’t heard anything unfortunately – it could be either a while if Rita Lakin only recently learned she’d be continuing the series, or the book could be mostly finished if they held off on the announcement!

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  15. Hi Danna, I just wanted to let your readers know that Amazon is giving away two of the newly released Sparrow Falls Mystery Box Sets Novels 1-4. Contest ends Friday, April 20! https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/216278448d098195

    Also, my 86 year old mother LOVES Kate Kingsbury, so she will be getting the new book for Mother’s Day. Shhh, don’t tell! 🙂

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  16. Lots of goodies coming-up!

    I have Lynn Cahoon’s Tourist Trap Mystery Series and Sharon Farrow’s Berry Basket Mystery Series on my wish list, so it’s good to know there are more releases on the way.

    The first two books in Kate Kingsbury’s Merry Ghost Inn Mystery Series on sitting on my TBR pile. I’ve added “Be Our Ghost” to my wish list.

    T.C. LoTempio’s upcoming Purr ‘n Bark Mystery Series sounds appealing. I’m adding it to my ever-growing wish list.

    Many thanks for the cozy news Danna! 🙂

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