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December 2012 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in December 2012:

Maggie Barbieri: Extra Credit (This will be the 7th in the Murder 101 Mystery Series.)

Jessica Beck: Illegally Iced (This will be the 8th in the Donut Shop Mystery Series.)

Josie Belle (aka Jenn McKinlay & Lucy Lawrence): A Deal to Die For (This will be the 2nd in the Good Buy Girls Mystery Series.)

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): Murder on the House (This will be the 3rd in the Haunted Home Renovation Mystery Series.)

Lisa Bork: To Love and to Perish (This will be the 4th in the Broken Vows Mystery Series.)

Bailey Cates (aka Cricket McRae): Bewitched, Bothered, and Biscotti (This will be the 2nd in the Magical Bakery Mystery Series.)

Chris Cavender (aka Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, Tim Myers, & Casey Mayes): Killer Crust (This will be the 5th in the Pizza Lovers Mystery Series.)

Erika Chase: Read and Buried (This will be the 2nd in the Ashton Corners Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Holiday Buzz (This will be the 12th in the Coffee House Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Carola Dunn: Valley of the Shadow (This is the 3rd in the Cornish Mystery Series.)

Aaron Elkins: Dying on the Vine (This will be the 17th in the Gideon Oliver Mystery Series.)

Monica Ferris: And Then You Dye (This will be the 16th in the Needlecraft Mystery Series.)

Christy Fifield (aka Christy Evans): Murder Hooks a Mermaid (This will be the 2nd in the Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery Series.)

Earlene Fowler: The Road to Cardinal Valley (This will be the 2nd in the Ruby McGavin Mystery Series.)

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles: Blood Never Dies (This will be the 15th in the Bill Slider Mystery Series.)

Julie Hyzy: Fonduing Fathers (This will be the 6th in the White House Chef Mystery Series.)

Victoria Laurie: What a Ghoul Wants (This will be the 7th in the Ghost Hunter Mystery Series.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene: A Haunting Dream (This will be 4th in the Missing Pieces Mystery Series.)

Amanda Lee (aka Gayle Trent): Thread on Arrival (This will be the 5th in the Embroidery Mystery Series.)

Liz Lipperman: Murder for the Halibut (This will be the 3rd in the Clueless Cook Mystery Series.)

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Panic Button (This will be the 3rd in the Button Box Mystery Series.)

Ada Madison (aka Camille Minichino & Margaret Grace): A Function of Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Sophie Knowles Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Lucy Lawrence & Josie Belle): Book, Line, and Sinker (This will be the 3rd in the Library Lover’s Mystery Series.)

J.J. Murphy: A Friendly Game of Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Algonquin Round Table Mystery Series.)

Andrea Penrose: Recipe for Treason (This will be the 3rd in the Lady Arianna Regency Mystery Series.)

Ann Purser: Found Guilty at Five (This will be the 12th in the Lois Meade Mystery Series.)

Hannah Reed (aka Deb Baker): Beeline to Trouble (This will be the 4th in the Queen Bee Mystery Series.)

Delia Rosen: A Killer in the Rye (This will be the 3rd in the Deadly Deli Mystery Series.)

Betty Rowlands: Unnatural Wastage (This will be the 12th in the Sukey Reynolds Mystery Series.)

Paige Shelton: A Killer Maize (This will be the 4th in the Farmers’ Market Mystery Series.)

Clea Simon: True Grey (This will be the 5th in the Dulcie Schwartz Feline Mystery Series.)

Barbara Vine: The Child’s Child (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Sharon Wildwind: Loved Honor More (This will be the 5th in the Elizabeth Pepperhawk & Avivah Rosen Mystery Series.)

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Comments

  1. I am thrilled to discover your website, Being a retired library assistant, it was always a personal joy to recommend many mysteries to my patrons (particularly those with an absence of profanity and /or unsavory situations.). I would like to suggest an author who has been omitted from your list.
    Elizabeth Lemarchand (1906-2000) was a former headmistress in a girls academy for close to 40 years. Her Scotland Yard detectives, Inspector Pollard and Sergeant Troy are low key, competent detectives who nevertheless exercise a shrewdness in deduction. I am enclosing a list of all 17 books in this series and they certainly correspond to your definition of a cozy mystery. Be richly blessed!
    Series
    Pollard and Toye
    1. Death of an Old Girl (1967)
    2. The Affacombe Affair (1968)
    3. Alibi for a Corpse (1969)
    4. Death on Doomsday (1971)
    5. Cyanide With Compliments (1972)
    6. Let or Hindrance (1973) aka No Vacation from Murder
    7. Buried in the Past (1974)
    8. Step in the Dark (1976)
    9. Unhappy Returns (1977)
    10. Suddenly While Gardening (1978)
    11. Change for the Worse (1980)
    12. Nothing to Do with the Case (1981)
    13. Troubled Waters (1982)
    14. The Wheel Turns (1983)
    15. Light Through the Glass (1984)
    16. Who Goes Home? (1987)
    17. The Glade Manor Murder (1988)

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    • Thank you so much, Bruce, for telling us about Elizabeth Lemarchand and her Pollard and Toye Mystery Series.

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  2. Danna, Thank you for December’s offerings. I wondered if I missed seeing it, but Susan Hill has a new book coming out. It is the latest in her Simon Serrallier series. It was to be published in November 2012. While not truly a “cozy”, it is not a bloody mystery either. I also want to mention another book I just read not a mystery but a GREAT story, Kate Morton’s “The Secret Keeper”. It is a good read with a remarkable twist at the end and no blatant sex scenes.

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    • Regina, I’m going to go edit Susan Hill’s page on Cozy Mystery site right now. Thanks for the information about her new book.

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  4. I love your website. I am constantly on the look out for new cozy mysteries and you have them right there easy to find…Thanks a lot!

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    • Welcome to the site, Dixie! I’m glad you have found some new authors who you enjoy reading.

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  5. Danna. Thanks for the December 2012 book releases. Look forward to your blog on the new releases of the month. There is alway a series that I never read before that I want to try. During Hurricane Sandy my job was closed for 2 days so I did a lot of reading (only could watch TV/weather updates to a point). Thankfully I had power.

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    • You’re welcome, Sheila.

      (I’m glad you were able to weather the storm with power. Hurricane Sandy was such an awful, wide spread disaster.)

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    • Sheila, The news reports on that storm showed that all of you along the east coast had a terrible time, some are still having a horrible time. My heart goes out to all of you. Take care. Hope the new storm didn’t effect you too much

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      • Danna and Linda C.

        Thank you for your well wishes. I was one of the lucky ones. Survived both Sandy and the Nor’eastern. Power stayed on both times. My nephew and his wife were just able to move back into their home a few days ago.

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        • Oh, Sheila, I could not believe how long some people went without power, or, in the case of your nephew, their homes.

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          • Danna. I know what you mean. I’m just thankful that the wires in my condo complex are underground and the transformer didn’t blow. What is unbelievable is that my nephew lives 1 mile away from his parents and they had power.

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            • Sheila, a few years ago, San Antonio had an ice storm. (Unfortunately, no snow for the children to enjoy – just ice.) Our side of the street went without power for a few days, where as the people right across the street never lost their’s. Odd…

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  7. Danna, I just now clicked on the listing for the Earlene Fowler book. As I clicked on this book I also went down the page to the section that Amazon has showing the listing of “People who liked this book also liked these books.” As I looked through these books I saw where some of my favorites had books coming out and I thought “Hey, I haven’t seen these on your list!!??” So I looked at just when some of these books came out, thinking that I missed them somehow. When I read where some of these books haven’t been released yet I felt kind of foolish. I need to have a little more faith in you and how you do a great job in letting us know ahead of time when these authors will have books coming out. I guess I need to hold onto my horses a little tighter!!

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  8. Danna, I just finished reading G.M. Malliet’s new book, “A Fatal Winter.” To be charitable about it, it is a story if you regard it as a parody of previous English Country Christmas novels. It has a castle not completely cut off from town, a priest as a leading character, bickering relatives, and a will. Need I say more? Read it for fun but I was disappointed until I read it that way.

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  10. My daughter and I really enjoy cozy mysteries. One that we recently discovered and who has a new one out in January is the Miss Dimple series by Mignon Ballard. They are set in the 1940’s in a small town, and we both learned a lot about what people went through during that time. The mysteries are really great also.

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  11. I normally don’t read Danielle Steel. My wife and mother-in-law love her books. They suggested I read her new book The Sins of the Mother. I just finished it. No murder. Just a nice story. Highly recommend.

    JMW

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      • Danna, Sometimes I wonder if my older sister and I had the same parents. She simply loves Danielle Steel’s books but I have never been able to get interested in any of them enough to finish a book! Then I love John Grisham books, as I have said many times before. I just have a hard time putting his books down. My sister can’t stand these books. I tend to think one of us was switched at the hospital!! Of course, although she was the first daughter but 3rd kid, where I was the second daughter, I was the fifth kid. Since there was one more kid after me I can’t see my parents adopting any more after the 4th kid. She must have been the strangers kid!!! My older brother reads anything. Our other sister and our 2 other brothers read only the newspapers!! Strange family!!

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  12. I have mentioned Maryjanice Davidson before. I just finished her 11th “Undead book { Undead and Unstable }. If you are into quirky and funny vampire books. This series is for you. Can’t wait for the next one to come out. Danna thank you again for the monthly list.

    JMW

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  13. Danna

    I enjoy reading. I have read more books in the last 3 years than I have my whole life. That is why I love your site. It gives me great ideas and on the back of some books other author’s comment. I look those up and it gives me more ideas. My wife just finished the third part of Nora Robert’s trilogy “The Perfect Hope “. She said it was great

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    • Jerry, it’s great that you have been able to find authors you enjoy adding to your queue of authors. I seem to be whittling down my lists, while you seem to be adding to yours!

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  16. Danna

    Just finished Janet Evanovich’s Notorious Nineteen. Stephanie Plum at her best and Dead Over Heels by MaryJanice Davidson {Three short Stories ) Both excellent
    Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving

    JMW

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    • Jerry, you sure read a lot of books in a month. These days it’s taking me longer and longer to read my books.

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  17. Hi All,
    Well I just finished my latest book & now I need help for suggestions on what to read over the Christmas break. I’m a big fan of Women Sleuths (I’ve read all of Laura Levine, G.A. Mckevitt, Leslie Meier, Lorna Barrett) – so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
    Thank you :o)
    Andrea

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  18. Andrea

    Take a look at the following authors as a suggestion

    1 Chris Cavender 2 Amanda Flower 3 Rhonda Pollero 4 Cricket McRae and 5 Barbara Allan to name a few. You can also throw in Donna Andrews

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  20. I absolutely love these updated lists. I just discovered this and cannot wait for the list as I am always going by author to their websites to see if they have any new books being released.

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  21. New audios available NOW at Audible.com: The Devil in Maryvale; Mardi Gras Murder (#1 & #4 in the Maryvale series – these came out just before Christmas with two more ‘in production’ – happy reading and writing to all of us in 2013
    Jackie Griffey (jacjgriffey on Facebok 😎

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  22. I am sorry to report that Tamar Myers will not be continuing the Pennsylvania Dutch cozy series. I always enjoyed the humor and light mysteries starring Magdalena Yoder! Gail

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  23. My list of works; bio; and news is posted on Amazon.com. There are some books in prints; ebooks; mass market; and just recently – just before Christmas three of my books came out as audios on audible.com. The new audios were: Christmas Trek; The Devil in Marybale; and Mardi Gras Murder. More are coming soon – please have a look (& comment on Facebook or wherever we get together, I love meeting new readers, writers, and cyber friends (I’m jackgriffey on Facebook now since there is another Jackie Griffey on Facebook ) Cheers & cyber hugs 😎 Jackie myhoho

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  24. Wonderful! So many good myseries, readers and writers, here! I was pleased to see my Maryvale series mentioned too – anyone who cares to look, Amazon.com has a long list of my books in cozy and other genres too and they’re in every format (currently) known to man LOL Oh, there’s a brief bio too, and I plan to keep writing as long as I can see the monitor.
    Good reading, good writing, and good vibes to all of us. Loved visiting.
    Jackie Griffey (jacjgriffey on Facebook since there’s another Jackie on there now.

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