Eight New Cozy Holiday Releases Coming October 2017 (Part 1)

September 8, 2017

WOW! October will be a really big month for holiday-themed Cozy Mysteries, with EIGHT new holiday Cozies coming out!!! I don’t like making these posts too long so I’m going to break this one up >>> to one post now, and another later! All of the mysteries this post will be Christmas themed.

First, Donna Andrews will be putting out the 22nd in the Meg Langslow Mystery Series, How the Finch Stole Christmas!. Meg’s husband has decided to expand his one-man show of Dickens’s Christmas Carol into a full family affair, pulling in not only Mega but their sons and outside actors as well. Mysteries are also starting to pile up around the holiday, including enemies of the aging actor hired to play Scrooge and the sudden appearance of caged finches around the town. Donna Andrews also writes the Turing Hopper Mystery Series.

Emily Brightwell will be releasing Mrs. Jeffries and the Three Wise Women, the 36th in the Victorian Mystery Series. An extremely unpopular gentleman was shot several months before Christmas in what was originally deemed a robbery gone wrong, but pressure has been mounting to solve the case. To this end, Inspector Witherspoon has been put on the case – and his household isn’t keen spending Christmas helping investigate a murder! To avoid this unfortunate turn of events, his housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries will need to act quickly – and discretely – to help the inspector maintain his sterling reputation as well as holiday plans.

Next, Ellen Byron will be releasing A Cajun Christmas Killing, the 3rd in the Cajun Country Mystery Series. Maggie Crozat is looking forward to spending a bayou Christmas in Pelican, Louisiana, with her family in their former-plantation-turned bed and breakfast. When another local vacation lodging owner turns up dead at Maggie’s workplace, she and her family quickly become prime suspects in the murder investigation. She’ll have to solve the crime quickly if she wants to enjoy a very merry Christmas this year.

Finally (at least for this set…) Nancy Coco will be releasing Deck the Halls with Fudge, a story in the Candy-coated Mystery Series. Senior sleuths Francis and Douglass are enjoying the scenic snowscape that is winter Mackinac Island, when they notice a horse-drawn sleigh carrying nothing but a frozen corpse! They’ll need to put their thinking caps on to solve this holiday homicide! Nancy Coco also writes the as Baker’s Treat Mystery Series and Perfect Proposal Mystery Series as Nancy J. Parra and the as Kensington Palace Chef Mystery Series as Nell Hampton.

Click here for Part 2 of this post and see more new holiday mysteries.

For more Christmas-themed Cozy Mysteries, visit the Christmas Cozy Theme page on the site site.

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Ellen Byron says

September 8, 2017 at 2:38 pm

It’s always a thrill to see my books on the Cozy Mystery blog. It was my go-to site before I started my series! Wanted to let you know that my book, A CAJUN CHRISTMAS KILLING, also includes recipes -including one for Spicy Cajun Christmas Cookies, which are a great holiday treat. 🙂

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- Danna - cozy mystery list says
  
  September 9, 2017 at 1:28 am
  
  Ellen, thanks for letting us know – I know there are a lot of Cozy readers that appreciate recipes in their Cozies!
  
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Margaret StashEmpress says

September 10, 2017 at 10:52 am

Looking forward to a new Meg Langslow title — they’re the MOST fun!!!

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- Danna - cozy mystery list says
  
  September 11, 2017 at 1:39 am
  
  Margaret, my son recommended you set up email forwarding from your gmail account to whatever you normally use. That way the emails will be sent from gmail to the other email account and you won’t have to log into gmail to see them. Instructions for that are here: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10957?hl=en
  
  Hope this helps!
  
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  - Margaret StashEmpress says
    
    September 11, 2017 at 10:34 am
    
    Thanks so much! I didn’t even know I could do this! Just set it up! Wonder though why my regular email no longer works for your blog? Is there a limit to how many “subscriptions” you can have? Do I need to somehow unsubscribe from old threads or what? Does your son have any insight into that? I don’t subscribe to comments on any other blogs but yours (usually) (have maybe subscribed to 4-5 other blogposts in all these years) — but I do subscribe to comments on nearly every one of your posts — for — how many years? Is there a limit?
    
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    - Danna - cozy mystery list says
      
      September 12, 2017 at 12:09 am
      
      Margaret, I’m glad that this looks like it will work for you!
      
      My son says that there shouldn’t be any sort of limit to how many subscriptions of this sort you can have – and if there is one, it certainly isn’t one that you could have hit just by subscribing to my blog. He doesn’t know why it would suddenly stop working for just that email address.
      
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      - Lee Ann F says
        
        September 12, 2017 at 7:56 am
        
        I have noticed on Gmail, that email that go to inbox suddenly are in the spam box for no reason. Should check your spam box.
        
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        Danna - cozy mystery list says
        
        September 13, 2017 at 1:01 am
        
        Lee, thanks for the suggestion, but she’s already checked her spam filter.
        
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- Laura Spragg says
  
  September 12, 2017 at 1:02 pm
  
  Yes! They’re the best! It’s amazing how she’s written so many and still keeps them fresh and fun. Some long series seem to tell the same story over and over and the characters never change. I’m glad Donna Andrews keeps their lives moving along.
  
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