There will be one new series starting in January 2020 by an established site author.
Kate Collins will be releasing Statue of Limitations, the first in her Goddess of Greene St. Mystery Mystery Series. Athena Spencer is returning with her son to her coastal Michigan hometown following a divorce for a break from big city living, taking the opportunity to help out around her family’s garden center. When a stranger arrives claiming that he is the rightful owner of a statue bought at a recent estate sale, it quickly becomes apparent that the death leading to the estate sale might have some suspicious circumstances. Kate Collins is also the author of the Flower Shop Mystery Series, starring Abby Knight, the owner of a flower shop in Indiana.
For more new Cozy Mystery Series, check out the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page on the site.
Susy S says
At least this was already on my list. My list is so long, I could never read everything on it, even if I live to be 100.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Susy, I definitely know how that feels!
Shannon Roe says
My list is probably as long as yours. To many books and not enough time!
Bek says
I’m shooting for immortality, myself. I’ll need it to get this list read!
HelgaT says
Pre ordered back in August! Can hardly wait!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Helga, well, fortunately not too much more of a wait at this point!
Maggie A. Houchens says
I am very excited about this new series by Kate Collins.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Maggie, it certainly does look good.
Bek says
I”m ahead of you on this one! It’s already on my list, page made for her in the computer file, index card filled out, marked as “to read” at Goodreads,” and listed on AllMyBooks.
Sometimes reading gets exhausting…but with THIS many books and authors that I want to read, I have to do it.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Bek, I know how that goes! Certainly sounds like you’ve got your organizational system down.
Joan Lehner says
Wait. I want to hear about a system to keep track of all the read books, new books upcoming and to be read books.
Susy S says
Joan,
Many of us have our own systems. I think Bek uses a combination of apps and websites, while I am a spreadsheet kind of gal. I have my inventory spreadsheet, my to be read spreadsheet, my coming releases spreadsheet and, becuase I am a cost/financial analyst by profession, a spreadsheet of my purchases, both the list price and the actual price paid, plus the taxes paid.
I am a little OCD, so I have my books segregated by read and unread, size and then in alphabetical order by author, then in copyright order, within series, if appropriate.
Bek says
OH GOODNESS!!! Now you’ve opened an entire can of worms! First, I started out by making a Word file for each author, with a table. I list the name of the book, it’s number in a series, and check a box for Hard Back, Trade Paper Back (the big ones), Mass Market Paper Back (“regular” size) or EBook. THEN, I have a 3×5 index card (sometimes more than one) for each author, with the books listed in order again. That’s my real “working” file, the thing I keep next to the computer for ordering. THEN I enter them on Goodreads. THEN I check with Thriftbooks, and put anything on one of my lists that they have onto one of my wish lists (one list per author). THEN, and most lately, I enter the book into AllMyBooks, and list it as “to buy” “read” or “to read.”
Now, when I order a book and it arrives, I put a bookplate in it, and a small label at the bottom of the spine that indicates its position in a series. For instance, Charlaine Harris has several series. A Sookie Stackhouse novel would be labeled “SS”, with the number in the series below it. A Midnight Texas book would be “MT” with the number below it.
I recently found out that I can actually order those tiny labels I use, Avery 6737, may come in a printer-friendly form! LOL, if that’s so, I’ll be putting new, neatly-printed labels on about 900 books! Well…750-800. I do have books that are not part of a series, and those don’t get labels…yet. It could happen.
I’m a little obsessive about book organization!
Which reminds me…I MUST get more 3×5 cards! And I can get THOSE in a printer-friendly form, too! O JOY O BLISS!!!