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Cozy Mystery News – July 2021

It’s a pretty good month for Cozy Mystery News – I have four pieces of news to share with you all about established site authors!

Victoria Gilbert will be putting out two more books in her Blue Ridge Library Mystery Series, which will take the series to a total of nine entries (there are two more that have been announced that I don’t have enough information on to put on her page yet). The names of these two new entries will be The Murder Index and A Catalog of Death. Gilbert is also the author of the Book Lover’s B&B Mystery Series.

Linda O. Johnston will be starting a new mystery series, the Wild Alaska Mystery Series, which will star a naturalist and tour boat guide investigating murder in the Klondike. The first entry in the series will be titled Bear Witness, and presumably have something to do with bears. Johnston is the author of multiple other series, including the Pet Rescue Mystery Series, the Superstition Mystery Series, and the Barkery & Biscuits Mystery Series.

G. M. Malliet will be writing a book either titled or about Augusta Hawke, a mystery writer who teams up with a private investigator who wants to collaborate on a book about an investigation. Malliet is also the author of the Max Tudor Mystery Series and the St. Just Mystery Series.

 

Olivia Matthews will be starting a new mystery series, the Spice Isle Bakery Mystery Series, with first entry Island in the Sun. This series will be set in Brooklyn, and star a baker who investigates the death of a rival baker after a series of threats between the deceased and the sleuth’s own family-owned West Indian bakery. This will be at least a three book series. Matthews also writes the Sister Lou Mystery Series.

Finally, Deanna Raybourn  will be releasing at least two more books in the Veronica Speedwell Mystery Series, though the two upcoming books are as-yet-unnamed. This will bring the series to a total of at least 9 entries (again, I don’t have information on the 7th yet, but hopefully that will be coming soon-ish). Raybourn is also the author of the Lady Julia Grey Mystery Series.

New Releases – July 12 to July 18, 2021

Here is the list of new releases for July 12 to July 18!… well, just the one release this week, actually… I don’t know why most releases seem to be clustered on the first and last week of most months, but that’s just the way it often seems to work out… EDIT: Two now, actually!

Esme Addison: A Hex for Danger (This will be the 2nd in the Enchanted Bay Mystery Series.)

Lena Gregory: A Spirit Seeks Asylum (This will be the 6th in the Bay Island Psychic Mystery Series.)

One New Cozy Mystery Series/Holiday Cozy Coming August 2021

We’ll be getting one new Cozy Mystery Series by a site author in August, which will also be a holiday-themed Cozy!

Carol J. Perry will be putting out Be My Ghost, the first in her new Haunted Haven Mystery Series, as well as a Halloween-themed Cozy Mystery! Maureen Doherty has just lost her job as a sportswear buyer when the department store she works for declares bankruptcy, but has a ray of light when she has an unexpected and mysterious inheritance, an inn in Florida. She decides that it must be a sign, and banks everything on a new career – but might quickly have second thoughts when she finds a corpse on the property – as well as a slew of ghosts! Perry is also the author of the Witch City Mystery Series, starring a reporter in Salem, Massachusetts.

For more Halloween-themed Cozies, see my Halloween Mystery Book LIst page!

August 2021 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in August 2021:

Donna Andrews: Murder Most Fowl (This will be the 29th in the Meg Langslow Mystery Series.)

Bree Baker (aka Jacqueline Frost, Julie Chase, & Julie Anne Lindsey): Partners in Lime (This will be the 6th in the Seaside Cafe Mystery Series.)

Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib): A Scone of Contention (This will be the 11th in the Key West Food Critic Mystery Series.)

James Lee Burke: Another Kind of Eden (This will be a Stand-Alone non-Cozy mystery.)

Ellen Byron (aka Maria DiRico): Cajun Kiss of Death (This will be the 7th in the Cajun Country Mystery Series.)

JoAnna Carl (aka Eve K. Sandstrom): The Chocolate Raccoon Rigmarole (This will be the 18th in the Chocoholic Mystery Series.)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): The Secret Staircase (This will be the 3rd in the Victorian Village Mystery Series.)

Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): No Grater Crime (This will be the 9th in the Country Store Mystery Series.)

J.C. Eaton: Railroaded 4 Murder (This will be the 8th in the Sophie Kimball Mystery Series.)

Kate Ellis: The Stone Chamber (This will be the 25th in the DI Wesley Peterson Mystery Sereis.)

Sarah Fox: A Wrinkle in Thyme (This will be the 8th in the Pancake House Mystery Series.)

Agatha Frost: Toffee Apple Torment (This will be the Claire’s Candles Cozy Mystery Series.)

Betty Hechtman: One for the Hooks (This will be the 14th in the Crochet Mystery Series.)

Anna Lee Huber: Murder Most Fair (This will be the 5th in the Verity Kent Mystery Series.)

Leslie Langtry: Mosquito Bite Murder (This will be the 19th in the Merry Wrath Mystery Series.)

Victoria Laurie: Coached in the Act (This will be the 3rd in the Cat & Gilley Life Coach Mystery Series.)

Alyssa Maxwell: Murder at Wakehurst (This will be the 9th in the Gilded Newport Mystery Series.)

Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, and Barbara Ross: Halloween Party Murder (This will be a series of three stories by the listed authors.)

Marcia Muller: Ice and Stone (This will be the 35th in the Sharon McCone Mystery Series.)

Kate Parker: Deadly Cypher (This will be the 7th in the Deadly Mystery Series.)

Louise Penny: The Madness of Crowds (This will be the 17th in the Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series.)

Carol J. Perry: Be My Ghost (This will be the 1st in the NEW Haunted Haven Mystery Series.)

Karen Rose Smith: Murder with Orange Pekoe Tea (This will be the 7th in the Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery Series.)

If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the July 2021 Mystery Book New Releases.

You can find these and many more Cozies scheduled for release soon on the Soon to be Released Mysteries page on my site.

(These are the mysteries by authors who are currently on the Cozy Mystery site.)

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