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March 2012 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in March 2012:

Susan Wittig Albert: Cat’s Claw (This will be the 20th in the China Bayles Mystery Series. This will be the 1st in the NEW Pecan Springs Mystery Series…)

Marian Babson: No Cooperation from the Cat (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Rhys Bowen: Hush Now, Don’t You Cry (This will be the 12th in the Molly Murphy Mystery Series…)

Rita Mae Brown: The Big Cat Nap: The 20th Anniversary Mrs. Murphy Mystery (This will be the 20th in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series…) (Actually, April 3…)

Anne Canadeo (aka Katherine Spencer): Till Death Do Us Purl (This will be the 4th in the Black Sheep Knitting Mystery Series…)

C. S. Challinor: Murder of the Bride (This will be the 5th in the Rex Graves Mystery Series…)

Laura Childs: Agony of the Leaves (This will be then 13th in the Tea Shop Mystery Series…)

Jane K. Cleland: Dolled Up for Murder (This will be the 7th in the Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series…)

Harlan Coben: Stay Close (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Fire Engine Dead (This will be the 3rd in the Museum Mystery Series…)

Clive Cussler & Justin Scott: The Thief (This will be the 5th in the Isaac Bell Mystery Series…)

Lindsey Davis: Falco: The Official Companion (This is what the title says…)

Kate Ellis: The Cadaver Game (This will be the 16th in the Wesley Peterson Mystery Series…)

Mary Anna Evans: Plunder (This will be the 7th in the Faye Longchamp Mystery Series…)

Christopher Fowler: The Memory of Blood (This will be the 9th in the Bryant & May Mystery Series…)

Kerry Greenwood: Cooking the Books (This will be the 6th in the Corinna Chapman Mystery Series…)

Jane Haddam: Blood in the Water (This will be the 27th in the Gregor Demarkian Mystery Series…)

Rebecca M. Hale: Adrift on St. John (This will be the 1st in the NEW Mystery in the Islands Mystery Series…)

Gemma Halliday: Play Nice (This will be the 1st in the NEW Anna Smith & Nick Dade Mystery Series…)

Veronica Heley: False Report (This will be the 6th in the Abbot Agency Mystery Series…)

Victoria Houston: Dead Tease (This will be the 12th in the Loon Lake Fishing Mystery Series…)

Jonnie Jacobs: Paradise Falls (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Jonathan Kellerman: Victims (This will be the 27th in the Alex Delaware Mystery Series…)

Jess Lourey: November Hunt (This will be the 7th in the Murder-by-Month Msytery Series…)

Ada Madison (aka Camille Minichino & Margaret Grace): The Probability of Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Professor Sofie Knowles Mystery Series…)

Judi McCoy: Fashion Faux Paw (This will be the 6th in the Dog Walker Mystery Series…)

G. A. McKevett: Buried in Buttercream (This will be the 17th in the Savannah Reid Mystery Series…)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Lucy Lawrence): Due or Die (This will be the 2nd in the Library Lover’s Mystery Series…)

Sharon Pape: Sketch a Falling Star (This will be the 3rd in the Portrait of Crime Mystery Series…)

James Patterson & David Ellis: Guilty Wives (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Richard North Patterson: Fall from Grace (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Thomas Perry: Poison Flower (This will be the 7th in the Jane Whitefield Mystery Series…)

Denise Swanson: Little Shop of Homicide (This will be the 1st in the NEW  Devereaux’s Dime Store Mystery Series…)

Maggie Toussaint: Death Island Style (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Jacqueline Winspear: Elegy for Eddie (This will be the 9th in the Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series…)

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Comments

  1. I am very thankful for such a wonderful web site you have.
    For years i have been reading mystery books of a few selected authors. With you web site the amount of authors I really enjoy reading has grown quite a bit. I keep a binder alphabetical with the names of the authors i like and with their books that I look forward to purchase. I visit your web site often for new releases and for other categories.

    Sincerely,

    Louise

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    • Welcome to the site, Louise, and thank you for the kind words! I have one copy of my alphabetical list of favorite authors at my computer, and the other copy in my TBR bookshelf in my bedroom.

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  3. Thank you, Danna! I just added 9 books to my library requests. I’m hoping more will show up later because so many of these are new series, which I’m looking forward to. I was really surprised at how many of the books already had more than 20 requests so early! I’m in a lull right now because I’ve read just about all the new cozies they’ve got.
    That made me very glad to have sprung for a NOOK version of the Nell Sweeney series – 6 books for one low price. I remember somebody here recommending them, so I read a sample and snapped it up. I love history and mystery, so it’s a great choice.

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    • You’re welcome, Deb. You must be following nine very popular authors from this list. At my library, they get so many copies of really popular authors, it seems to not take much time to finally get a book with a long list. Hope you have the same type of library…

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      • Danna. Do you know why The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller by Alice Kimberly didn’t come out when it was suppose to?

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          • The newest Alice Kimberly was released in Jan. Amazon is currently out of stock. She released the new one under the Cleo Coyle name. That said, I have unfortunately had trouble getting my hands on this book in my local bookstores. I was very surprised by that, considering the switch to Coyle, I thought that would make it a shoe in for the stores to have it prominently displayed. I like this series more then the coffeehouse series and can’t wait to read the latest installment…if I could only find it!!

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        • Supposedly Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini (Cleo Coyle) will tell you the reason for the delay of Ghost and the Bogus Bookseller if you subscribe to the newsletter on their website:

          coffeehousemystery.com.

          They answer this to a question regarding it on the message board (icon on the left). BUT they don’t state why on the website, emphasizing the necessity of subscribing to the newsletter.

          However if you click on the ‘haunted mystery’ icon (left side of site) and then scroll down, they state it will be released ‘later’ this year (emphasizing ‘LATER’). Also, the cover of this book on their website and at Amazon shows the author to be Cleo Coyle and NOT Alice Kimberly.

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          • Well that would explain why I can’t find it…this is the second time they have delayed this book’s release. When they first announced it they had a fall 2011 release date for it. Someone should really clue Amazon in to the changes since they still have the old info on it. Thanks for the heads up on this MJ.

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  6. Danna, Wunderbar !!! New books to look for. I was happy to see Kerry Greenwood and Kate Ellis have new releases in my favorite series. I am reading “Believing the Lie” by Elizabeth George. It is very slow reading and very long, 608 pages. Truthfully I find it rather dull because she has too much detail. What do your other readers think?

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    • Regina, when you said you were going to do some light reading, and Elizabeth George was your choice for that “light” reading, I was sort of surprised. I used to look forward to all of her books, but, she does seem very detail-oriented. I prefer my mysteries to be a little shorter than 608 pages >>> What am I saying?!? I prefer my mysteries to be about a third that long!

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    • I love long books! I’m reading Elizabeth George again, and I’ve found Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series, which I love. I also like Anne Perry’s Charlotte and Thomas Pitt books, though not the Inspector Monk series. But I do like the Mr. Monk series by Lee Goldberg, even if they’re not very long!
      The Nell Sweeney collection I have now is like reading a nice long book – it’s 6 books in one, so I’m reading them all in a row.
      I much prefer a series book to a standalone because I can get really immersed in the characters and setting – just like reading a nice long book.
      Chacun a son gout, as they say in France!

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      • Deb, you are so right>>> everyone has his/her own choice. I wish I didn’t get so impatient with long books. I used to read long mysteries, but now I just find myself saying “Come on… Let’s get this going…” too many times during beautifully written descriptions.

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        • Danna, that reminded me of a couple of “long book” stories. One was a historical novel I read in high school. I couldn’t figure out what happened to a prominent character, and it turned out she died in the middle of an extremely long descriptive paragraph that I skipped!
          The other was when my father was reading the novel Hawaii, by James Michener, who couldn’t write a short book. I asked my Dad where he was in the book, which covered the entire history of the islands from their formation out of the ocean through the orginal Polynesian settlement all the way up to the 1950s. His reply? “She just died.”

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          • Deb, “She just died.” was so funny, right after I read that, I simply HAD to tell my husband!

            Re: your high school historical novel >>> That’ll teach you to read every word! (Sort of why I don’t like extremely long books… You can never know when to just skim through sections…)

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      • Deb, I am kind of strange about the length of a book. I am as of now reading M.C. Beaton’s “Death of a Kingfisher, A Hamish Macbeth Mystery.” I absolutely am in love with Hamish and I would dearly love for this book to go on and on. I hate these stories to end. I have so many favorite authors that I hate to get to the end of a book! But I also want books to get over so that I can get on to the next book.
        I guess sometimes we just aren’t satisfied, are we?

        P.S. I read on the inside back cover of this book that the BBC had a TV series with Hamish Macbeth!!!! I didn’t know that!!! So I looked that up on the internet last night and low and behold, there was Hamish! Looks just like I thought he would! Oh how I would love to be able to see this TV series. I did see these were available for purchase.
        I sure do wish the BBCA would put some of these TV series on so we could watch them here in the good ole US of A. I want to watch ENGLISH TV on an ENGLISH TV channel. I have plenty of USA channels to watch American TV. The BBCA sure misses their calling here on this.

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        • Linda, I have seen the Hamish Macbeth mystery shows, and while I did like them, they were quite different than M. C. Beaton’s Hamish Macbeth mystery books. Also, I like the actor who played Hamish, but he didn’t look at all like what I had envisioned, and he didn’t come off as such a big oaf. I think a lot of people underestimate Hamish (in the books) because they think he’s a simpleton… and are quite surprised when he continuously solves the mysteries.

          (It’s funny how we all come away from series with different ideas of what we think the characters look like.)

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          • Danna, What I like the most about Hamish Macbeth is that he has all he wants in life and he really doesn’t want anything else. He is very happy and content with his life just the way it is. How often do we ever get to meet someone like that? How many of us are like that? Not too many in fiction and very few in real life. Hamish just wants to be able to do the job that he has been given to do. I think Hamish is a very honorable, responsible person. He loves the area of Scotland that he has been given to police. He is very loyal to those people that also live in his area and he will do anything he can to see that “his” people have justice. All he asks is to be let alone to do his job.
            I know that sometimes his story tries to make us believe he is a lazy oaf but he really isn’t . I love this new character that was introduced in “Death of a Kingfisher.” I hope Dick Fraser is around for a long time. I think he makes a perfect sidekick for Hamish.
            I hate it when TV producers rewrite a book! Wouldn’t you like to know what goes on in some of these people’s heads! Why mess with something that is so good!!

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    • Thanks, Harvee, for the thumbs up about Jane Cleland’s Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series!

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  8. Danna, Love the list. I bought the first of the Rex Graves by C.S. Challinor mystery series for my Kindle this morning. I’m always looking for a series to follow. Thought I’d start at the beginning this time! =0)

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      • Personally I always start with the first book in the series that interests me…and that’s not always the debut novel. One time I tried to be good, and started with the first Sam Adams book by Sarah Shankman. It is a wonderful series, but it changed radically in direction and characters in the third book, and I very nearly didn’t bother with the third book because I wasn’t wildly impressed by the first two.

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        • Julia, good point! It’s sort of like the television show
          Star Trek: the Next Generation:

          If we had started watching the show in the first season, there is a chance we wouldn’t have continued watching it for long. It took the show a season (at least!) before it hit its stride. We went back and watched the first season (eventually) but we were pretty surprised at how bad some of the shows were…

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  9. Danna, I am puzzled about the publication of Simon Brett’s new book, “Guns in the Gallery”. You featured it for February as does Amazon, but Fantastic Fiction and BN claim it will be published in June. Am I mis-reading something? Help?

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    • That’s weird, isn’t it, Regina. I am assuming that Amazon has the books, since it has:
      “In Stock.
      Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.
      Only 2 left in stock–order soon (more on the way).”
      on the Guns in the Gallery page…

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    • Since the February release is a hardcover, it’s quite probable that the June release date is for the paperback.
      It’s quite usual for that to be released much later.

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  10. I’m glad Denise Swanson is starting a new series. I really enjoyed the early Skye Denison books but some of her characters have evolved in not too pleasant ways. I am looking forward to her starting fresh with a new cast and setting and seeing where she goes with it. She is a very talented writer.

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    • Julia, I think Denise Swanson’s new mystery series (Deveraux’s Dime Store) looks like it might be a lot of fun. I certainly hope so!

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  11. Danna, My light reading for the Super Bowl was Jeanne Dams not Elizabeth George. I finally became fed up with her book yesterday and skipped to the end. I am with you, I like my books short, sweet and simple. I never told you how much I too appreciate your web site. It keeps me aware of my favorite authors and introduces me to new ones. At one time when I could visit libraries and book stores, I would find new authors. You provide that service for me now. Thank you

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    • Regina, that makes a lot more sense! Elizabeth George is definitely not my idea of light reading!

      And, thank you for the very kind words about the site, Regina.

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  12. I am so please to see the new entry in the Gregor Demarkian Mystery series by Jane Haddam will soon be out.
    Some people don’t consider these mysteries “cozies” but I do because they deal so much with human relations and give interesting sidelights into the home lives of an evolving ethnic group.
    In the early books there was so much written about Armenian foods that I was prompted to contact an Armenian church that helped me obtain a cookbook published by the ladies’ auxiliary.

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    • Andie, I used to read Jane Haddam’s Gregor Demarkian Mystery Series. I also enjoyed the “interesting sidelights” that you mentioned.

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  13. I just finished Catch Me by Lisa Gardner. Read the last 200 pages last night. Great book as usual. My wife just finished Left For Dead by Judith Jance. She said it was very good. Reading that one next. Private Games by James Patterson and Oath of Office by Michael Palmer just hit the library system. Probably a long wait for both. Just a heads up
    Always looking for suggestions so keep them coming. Danna your website is great. Keep finding new authors. Thank you

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    • Jerry, I’m glad you and your wife are finding new authors to try out. By putting the monthly list up so early, I figure a lot of people can get their requests in at their libraries before too many people are on the waiting lists.

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  15. I just finished First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones. One of the strangest books I have ever read but could not put it down

    JMW

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  16. Amazing work, always! Thanks for your site. It saves me a lot of time trying to keep track of my authors and trying to find new ones!

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    • Thank you, Donna, for the kind words! I’m glad it has helped you find new authors. I have found quite a few new authors, also.

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  17. Thanks from yet another grateful reader for helping me keep up with my many favorite authors as well as trying a new one now and then. I dropped the Denise Swanson Skye Denison series but may give the new one a try. Your information is extremely helpful and if I had a web site, I would include a link.

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  18. Hi Danna, great list as usual. There is one new release that you haven’t included – “Murder Buys a T-Shirt” by Christy Fifield. Release date is 6 March.

    Thanks,
    Alison

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    • Thanks, Alison. That is because I only include the mystery authors who are currently on the Cozy Mystery site. (Maybe I should annotate that on the Mystery Book New Releases monthly lists.)

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  21. Here it is March 1st already. March here I think came in like a lion. The people on the TV weather shows said like a lamb. Yesterday was so nice here. I think the temps were in the upper 60’s. I sat outside and read almost all afternoon. I can’t ever remember being able to do that here in Ohio in Feburary! I think spring is coming!!

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    • I know, Linda, if I were a gardener, I would probably be planting my bulbs right about now… But since I’m not, I don’t even know if 80* weather is when you do that, or not.

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    • Amy, I always enjoy seeing who is putting out a new Cozy. I’m going to be posting the April 2012 Mystery Book New Releases tomorrow.

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  23. I love cozies, and have had a email subscription to your blog for quite a while! Your blog posts are so interesting and informative, thanks so much!
    My to be read lists are getting longer and longer… =)

    Thanks for all of the work that you do!
    I can’t wait for the the April 2012 Mystery Book New Releases!

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    • Hi, Melissa B! I always look forward to the monthly mystery book new releases, also. Of course, I especially like it when one of the authors I follow has a new book amongst all of the rest.

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  24. I discovered “cozy” mysteries last year when my husband gave me a Kindle for Valentine’s Day. Until then I read regular mysteries, adventure novels and sci-fi. Then I happened to download a cozy mystery because the cover looked interesting and have been hooked ever since. I’m a divorce attorney and needed fun, light reading and these are just the ticket. As a dog lover I started with Susan Conant and Donna Ball and moved on to the crafts series (especially scrapbooking), the culinary series (Cleo Coyle, Avery Aames), etc.
    Your website has been a great help in finding additional authors. Thank you so much for your effort. Keep up the good work!

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  25. Just wanted to let everyone know that Gemma Halliday’s Hollywood Scandals is free on Kindle …

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