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February 2012 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in February 2012:

Avery Aames: Clobbered by Camembert (This will be the 3rd in the Cheese Shop Mystery Series…)

Lucy Arlington (aka 1/2 Sylvia May & 1/2 J. B. Stanley, Jennifer Stanley, & Ellery Adams): Buried in a Book (This will be the 1st in the NEW Mystery Series…)

Jeffrey Ashford (aka Roderic Jeffries & Peter Alding): Justice Deferred (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Lorraine Bartlett (aka Lorna Barret & L. L. Bartlett ): The Walled Flower (This will be the 2nd in the Victoria Square Mystery Series…)

M. C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Death of a Kingfisher (This will be the 28th in the Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series…)

Melissa Bourbon: A Fitting End (This will be the 2nd in the Magical Dressmaking Mystery Series…)

Jacklyn Brady (aka Sherry Lewis): Cake on a Hot Tin Roof (This will be the 2nd in the Piece of Cake Mystery Series…)

Simon Brett: Guns in the Gallery (This will be the 13th in the Fethering Mystery Series…)

Ellen Byerrum: Death on Heels (This will be the 8th in the Crime of Fashion Mystery Series…)

Kate Carlisle: One Book in the Grave (This will be the 5th in the Bibliophile Mystery Series…)

Nancy J. Cohen: Shear Murder (This will be the 10th in the Bad Hair Day Mystery Series…)

E. J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Old Haunts (This will be the 3rd in the Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series…)

Deborah Crombie: No Mark upon Her (This will be the 14th in the Kincaid  & James Mystery Series…)

Amanda Flower: Murder in a Basket (This will be the 2nd in the India Hayes Mystery Series…)

Joanne Fluke: Cinnamon Roll Murder (This will be the 15th in the Hannah Swensen Cookie Jar Mystery Series…)

Parnell Hall: $10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles (This will be the 13th in the Puzzle Lady Mystery Series…) (Actually January 31…)

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles: Kill My Darling (This will be the 14th in the Bill Slider Mystery Series…)

B. B. Haywood: Town in a Wild Moose Chase (This will be the 3rd in the Candy Holliday Mystery Series…)

Joan Hess: Deader Homes and Gardens (This will be the 18th in the Claire Malloy Mystery Series…)

Maddy Hunter: Dutch Me Deadly (This will be the 7th in the Passport to Peril Mystery Series…)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Gem of a Ghost (This will be the 3rd in the Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Series…)

J. A. Jance: Left for Dead (This will be the 7th in the Ali Reynolds Mystery Series…)

Jonathan Kellerman: Victims (This will be the 26th in the Alex Delaware Mystery Series…)

Victoria Laurie: Quest for the Secret Keeper (This will be the in the 3rd in the Oracles of Delphi Series…) (This is a children’s mystery series.)

Lisa Lutz: Trail of the Spellmans (This will be the 5th in the Izzy Spellman Mystery Series…)

James Patterson & Mark Sullivan: Private Games (This will be the 4th in the Jack Morgan Private Mystery Series……)

J. D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts): Celebrity in Death (This will be the 35th in the Eve Dallas Mystery Series…)

Peter Robinson: Before the Poison (This will be a Stand Alone…)

David Rosenfelt: Heart of a Killer (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Dana Stabenow: Restless in the Grave (This will be the 19th in the Kate Shugak Mystery Series…)

Betty Webb: Desert Wind (This will be the 7th in the Lena Jones Mystery Series…)

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Comments

  1. Thanks, Danna

    SO HAPPY to see Joan Hess is writing another book in the Claire Malloy series after a lo-o-o-o-ng absence of 4 years. I really enjoy this series. (I’m not a fan of the Maggody series, although most others I know really like it).

    Also pleased Maddy Hunter has written another book in the Passport to Peril series after five years.

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    • MJ… I could not believe it when I saw the new Claire Malloy mystery. I actually found Joan Hess by trying her first Maggody mystery. I became hooked on that crazy town. I then added the Claire Malloy series to my favorites, also. I didn’t think I could possibly like it as much as I liked the Maggody series, but I did. I now prefer the Claire Malloy mystery series.

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      • I love the Claire Malloys! And I’m looking forward to the Hannah Swenson, too.
        As soon as I saw your list, I went on my library’s website to request the books I like. Very few of them were preordered. I guess the economy is hurting them, too.

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      • Absolutely agree with you MJ and Danna. Love the Claire Malloy series and its good to see another one. Will be looking forward to reading it.

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        • MJ, Deb, & Sheila –

          Looks like we all have great taste in mystery series! I am really looking forward to catching up with Claire Malloy!

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          • I’ve never heard of Joan Hess but after hearing you ladies rave over her I placed holds at my library on the first Claire Malloy and the first Maggody book – so fun to discover a new author! Thanks! (and I can’t WAIT for the new Joanne Fluke!!)

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  2. Thanks you so much for the monthly new releases!!!!!! I start checking out your website on the first of each month in eager anticipation of the new cozies!!

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  3. If anyone is looking for a great series of books. Look up Bill Crider. His Sheriff Dan Rhodes books are really a great read. There are about 20 books and he has another one coming out later this year

    JMW

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    • Jerry, thanks for the Bill Crider endorsement. Have you tried his Stanley Waters Mystery Series? He co-wrote it with Willard Scott. I love that series, and only wish he (they) would have written more …

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  8. I positively drool with excitement when I see you have posted the monthly list of new books. I enjoy Joan Hess, but I am even happier to see a new maddy Hunter. I too head for my libraries’ on-line catalogs to place hold on my favorites. Luckily I have access to 3 libraries so I have a good chance of obtaining the books I want.

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    • Regina, I hope your library holds will enable you to read these mysteries when they become available…

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  9. Danna
    You are a life saver in the sea of new releases without your monthly new release list I would be afloat in the aisles of my local book store bobbing for air. Now I have a direction to head to and can see the light. Oh heck, silly over thank you for your hard work I bookmark this site and check it monthly. Keep up the great work.

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  10. Because I read books by authors like Dana Stabenow I have gotten to love watching the reality TV show on Alaska on the cable channels. I love being able to see stories about Alaska. Alaskan State Troopers, Flying Wild Alaska, and Gold Rush have gotten to be some of my favorite TV shows. Except maybe to watch the sports my hubby and I seldom watch the major networks any more. Just too much blood, gore, and sex. I know, I know, I READ about these things but the TV shows just aren’t very interesting to me. Give me a good book over network TV any day. I just wish the narrator of these shows would slow down so that I could understand how some of the Alaskan towns and villages are pronounced!

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    • My husband and I have also become fond of the reality shows set in Alaska although I find Coast Guard Alaska rather repititive. One thing I enjoy about many mystery stories is their settings. I learn a great deal about many countries climate, scenery and customs from mystery stories and not just those that are travel based. Regina

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      • Regina, I love the books that are set in various locations, in the US and in the British Isles. I don’t really care for some of the ones set in say like the eastern countries, France, the mysterious places, just about any place in the US though. I will never see many of these places but some of these books serve me as my own travel agents. I love to read who or what kind of people settled in different areas of the country. I love geneology and I like to learn how we all got to be living in whatever area or locale we are living in. When people ask me what kind of books I like to read I will say mostly murder mysteries and I sometimes get funny looks from people when I say I can learn a lot while reading mysteries. But I can.

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  11. If anyone is looking for a great read. Deborah Coonts has 2 books out and 2 more coming out this year. You can’t put them down. Wanna Get Lucky? and Lucky Stiff great reading. Just finished Janet Evanovich Love in a Nutshell, Leslie Meier’s Chocolate covered Murder and James Patterson’s Private # 1 Suspect.

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  12. Wrote to Danna directly on this one, but thought I would reach out for help. Just spent about a 1/2 a year reading Agatha Raisin and Hamish McBeth (MC Beaton) and really enjoyed them. Anyone have a good, strong and long book series they can recommend? While I love Dana Stabenow (because her books advance the characters) and read Evanovich and Fluke es (though getting a bit bored with the characters’ stagnation) I am willing to try anything with a good number of books out there so I don’t have to wait for the next one. Many thanks!

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    • If you enjoy reading MC Beaton you might like Martha Grimes. Her main character is Richard Jury who is a Scotland Yard detective. The characters are great. I first read one in the middle of the series and didn’t like the series until I started with the first one which is The Man with a Load of Mischief. I like the quaint English village feel which reminds me a bit of Agatha Raisin’s town.

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    • I think there are about 22 Richard Jury mysteries. Also you may like Anne Perry who has two Victorian series. The Pitt series has about 26 and William Monk has 18 in the series.

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  13. If you’re looking for a good Christian mystery series, be sure to read Cynthia Hickey’s books – “Fudge-Laced Felonies”, “Candy Coated Secrets” and “Chocolate Covered Crime”. I laughed so hard in the second one, that I nearly cried! But they are also mysteries and a very good read!

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  16. I am so looking forward to the new Joanna Fluke book in the Hannah Swensen series – I only recently stumbled upon them & have enjoyed each one.

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  19. I saw the Avery Aames, 3rd book in the Cheese Shop Mystery Series listed, so I bought all three right off the bat. It really sounds like a great series. I like the idea of being able to get into a series early on so there isn’t alot of catching up to do. I have one more Book Town Mystery and one more Domestic Diva Mystery to read then I am diving in to the Cheese Shop.
    I also liked what I read about Lucy Arlington’s new series. I just ordered that as well.
    I have to stop finding all these new series. I can hardly keep up with what I have. So many good books so little time!

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    • Margaret, I have that same problem.

      I have all sorts of TBR mysteries, but I tend to leave them on the back burner, even though they are by my favorite authors. I go through phases where I just feel like I want to try new-to-me authors so that I can find more to add to my TBR pile of books. Good grief!

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  20. Just finished “Buried in a Book” by Lucy Arlington. While it gets a teensy bit Harlequin-ish for a moment here and there, I would still highly recommend it. I particularly liked the fact that the heroine is sensible and keeps updating people (particularly the police) on her whereabouts, her suspicions and her overall investigation – I just hate it when the sleuth runs off to confront the killer singlehandedly and then is genuinely surprised he or she is almost killed.

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  21. Can’t believe the Cat DeLuca Mystery series isn’t on your list. To me it’s the ultimate “Cozy” with lots family, laughs, a bit of romance and a good solid plot. The author is K. J. Larsen which it says inside the book jacket is actually three sisters writing together, an interesting anomaly in itself.

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    • Thank you, Harold, for telling us about the Cat DeLuca Mystery Series by K. J. Larsen.

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