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One New Cozy Mystery Series, One Holiday Cozy Mystery Coming February 2016

February looks like it’s going to be a bit sparse on both new Cozy Mystery series starting (with only one series) as well as holiday-themed Cozies getting released (only one of these as well) so I’m going to tell you about both of them in one post rather than making two really short posts.

The new series we will have is Diane Vallere‘s Costume Shop Mystery Series, which will be beginning with A Disguise to Die For. Margo Tamblyn, a former magician’s assistant, returns to her home town of Proper, Nevada, to run a costume shop. Surprisingly enough (to non-experienced Cozy Mystery readers), her very first client turns up dead! Margo will need to call on both her knowledge of magician’s tricks and costumes to help make sure that her friend Ebony Welles doesn’t get blamed for a crime Margo is sure he didn’t commit – though this will be made harder when Ebony flees town! Diane Vallere also writes the Material Witness Mystery Series, the Mad for Mod Mystery Series, and the Style &  Error Mystery Series.

Also coming in February is Christine Wenger‘s It’s a Wonderful Knife, a Christmas themed mystery and the 5th in the Comfort Food Mystery Series. In this entry, diner manager Trixie Matkowski will be celebrating the holidays, though the season is marred somewhat when she slips and breaks a leg on a patch of ice. Still, she’s determined to cater the town’s annual Christmas pageant despite her injury – and a good thing too as the pageant director turns up dead! Trixie will need to battle both her own injury and the murderer’s wiles when investigating this nefarious crime!

As always you can see more great upcoming Cozy series on the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page.

And of course you can find more great Christmas themed Cozies at the Christmas Themed Cozies page.

Also, if you’d like to find out about more upcoming Cozy Mysteries, be sure to check out the Soon to Be Released Mysteries page on my site.

Comments

    • I’m looking forward to the new series as well. I’ve read her Mad for Mod series and now I see mid century modern everywhere! I have not read the Style and Error or Material Witness books yet, but they are definitely on my list!

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  3. I am searching for a series of books that only had mystery elements.
    They were about a little girl who is being raised by a couple who run a café in an English city, London or Manchester, maybe. There is a wonderful cast of characters including a cop who is probably the little girl’s father, a once aristocratic girl now a possible prostitute & a definite substance abuser who is the little girl’s mother. There are attempted kidnappings of the little girl over an inheritance. I seem to remember at least one murder the mother is suspected of. The author is English and she had some sort of interesting personal history. Any help will be appreciated, I have been searching for 2 years.

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      • Thank you. A Million Blessings Upon You, Judith. I have
        been trying to find this series for so long. I am putting the first
        2 books on hold right now, but I hope to buy copies now that
        I have the titles again. It has that re-readability that only some
        series do. I’ve thought of the café and the characters as if they
        were memories instead of just fiction.
        Tessa

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        • I just put the first book on hold as well – in looking for the title I realized there were more books in the series that I had not read, so I am going back to read the series. Thank you for reminding me about this book!

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