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Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – September 2020

We’re just about at the end of September, so it’s time to discuss our favorite Cozies that we’ve read this month!

If you read a Cozy mystery this month and want to recommend it to the rest of us, be sure to post it here! For this month, I read the first entry of Sofie Ryan’s Second Chance Cat Mystery Series. For the reasons I want to recommend it, be sure to check out the blog entry!

So, what have you been reading that you can recommend in September? Please be sure to tell us why you liked these Cozies so much. I know we’re all always on the lookout for more particularly good Cozy Mystery authors! (If you have a lot of Cozies you think are great, please post the ones you like the most at the top of the list.)

As always, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.

What really good Cozy Mystery did you read during September 2020 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Esme Addison: Enchanted Bay Mystery Series (first entry A Spell for Trouble)

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series

Stephanie Blackmoore: Wedding Planner Mystery Series

Julia Buckley: Hungarian Tea House Mystery Series

Ellen Byron (aka Maria DiRico): Cajun Country Mystery Series

Eve Calder: Cookie House Mystery Series (first entry And Then There Were Crumbs)

Vivien Chien: Noodle Shop Mystery Series

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Cranberry Cove Mystery Series

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Mysterious Detective Mystery Series

Elizabeth Daly: Henry Gamadge Mystery Series

Diane Mott Davidson: Goldy Bear Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Domestic Diva Mystery Series

Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Tea By the Sea Mystery Series

Jana DeLeon: Miss Fortune Mystery Series

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Magic Garden Mystery Series

Daryl Wood Gerber (aka Avery Aames): Fairy Garden Mystery Series

Traci Hall: Scottish Shire Mystery Series (first entry Murder in a Scottish Shire)

Wendy Heuvel: Ablazing Grace

Tonya Kappes (aka Maymee Bell): Kenni Lowry Mystery Series

Essie Lang (aka Linda Wiken & Erika Chase): Castle Bookshop Mystery Series

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Ethnic Eats Mystery Series

Alyssa Maxwell: Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Library Lover’s Mystery Series

Amy Reade: Juniper Junction Mystery Series (first entry The Worst Noel)

Sofie Ryan (aka Sofie Kelly & Darlene Ryan for Young Adult) : Second Chance Mystery Series AND Magical Cats Mystery Series

J.B. Stanley (aka Jennifer Stanley, Ellery Adams, & 1/2 of Lucy Arlington): Supper Club Mystery Series

I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month.

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

P.S. I usually don’t comment on your recommendations since they speak for themselves.

New Releases – September 28 to October 4, 2020

Here is the list of new releases for September 28 to October 4!

Stephanie Blackmoore: Veiled in Death (This will be the 6th in the Wedding Planner Mystery Series.)

Maya Corrigan: Gingerdead Man (This will be the 7th in the Five-Ingredient Mystery Series.)

Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): Candy Slain Murder (This will be the 8th in the Country Store Mystery Series.)

Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Dying in a Winter Wonderland (This will be the 5th in the Year-Round Christmas Mystery Series.)

Sharon Farrow (aka 1/2 of D.E. Ireland): Hollyberry Homicide (This will be the 5th in the Berry Basket Mystery Series.)

Joanne Fluke: Christmas Cupcake Murder (This will be the 26th in the Hannah Swensen Mystery Series.)

Lee Hollis: Murder at the PTA (This will be the 1st in the NEW Maya and Sandra Mystery Series.)

Karen MacInerney: Sweet Revenge (This will be the 7th in the Dewberry Farm Mystery Series.)

Archer Mayor: The Orphan’s Guilt (This will be the 31st in the non-Cozy Joe Gunther Mystery Series.)

Susan Santangelo: Politics Can Be Murder (This will be the 9th in the Baby Boomer Mystery Series.)

Denise Swanson: Winner Cake All (This will be the 3rd in the Chef-to-Go Mystery Series.)

Cozy Reader Questions

It’s been a few months, so I’m trying to keep more on top of reader questions than I have been. There are still quite a few outstanding questions, though.

From R…

I’m looking for a fiction or mystery book where an older married couple are on a trip(might be a food tour). But they’re in Europe somewhere & I THINK someone gets sick. Every chapter or two though is a different narrator(ie. her POV and then his POV).

I believe that the woman’s name is Caroline/Carolyn but I can’t remember her husband’s name.

It’s been awhile since I’ve read it & I’d like to try and find it again.
Thanks

EDIT: Julie, Susan, and Suzy have posted in that this sounds like the Culinary Food Writer Mystery Series by author Nancy Fairbanks. R confirmed that this is the mystery they were thinking of.

From Gayle….

I’m looking for a series I lost track off….woman has a law firm, married to a man who maybe works for a government agency, they have a plane, and she gets involved in solving crimes. The series has been around for a while.

EDIT: Terry and Marja suggested that this could be the Sharon McCone Mystery Series by Marcia Muller.

From Judithe…

I am trying to find a mystery series about a woman lawyer who comes to work with her father. Not the Sujata Massey series. American or maybe British?

EDIT: Annie and Marja both suggest this could be the Barbara Holloway Mystery Series by Kate Wilhelm.

From Joan… 

Hi, I “lost” an author, as in I cannot remember her name or titles of her books. The main character arrives in a small seaside village in England(?) having left her former life behind. She decides to open a shop. She meets a local woman who befriends her and a cheese farmer/producer with whom she thinks she could have a relationship. There are murders and mysteries to be solved. Help?

EDIT: Laura suggested that this might be the Scarlet Cove Seaside Systery Series, written by Agatha Frost and Evelyn Amber.

From Tom…

At least 20 years ago a woman -AUTHOR – who lived in Mequon wrote a fictional murder mystery based in Milwaukee’s Washington Heights neighborhood and Washington Park. Young school aged girls were involved in story and I believe solved mystery.

Can anyone help with authors name or title, please?

EDIT: Sharon suggested this might be Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagan.

From Lex…

Hi, I have been looking all over and can’t remember a series I have read. The main character is a female detective (maybe a PI) who lives in Cambridge MA on or around Brattle Street in a carriage house.

EDIT: Ellen suggested that this might be the Carlotta Carlyle Mystery Series by Linda Barnes. Marcia thinks it could be the Museum Mystery Series by Sheila Connolly. Ginger thinks it might be the Dog Lover’s Mystery Series by Susan Conant. Marja thinks this could be the Sunny Randall Mystery Series by Robert B. Parker. Lex eventually figured it out – it was Patricia Cornwell‘s Kay Scarpetta Mystery Series.

From Bobbie…

I am looking for a series that takes place in Florida with a young man that is a half brother or illegitimate son of a wealthy boat owner or maker. He has a friend or grandfather that he associates with. It’s a mystery series. I think his name was Chase or Chance. It is not the Saving Chase series.

EDIT: And a late question from Marja…

Now I know this isn’t a Cozy per se, but I have read 2 or 3 books about a Baltimore [possibly Atlanta] female police officer who makes detective at the end of the first book. Because she patrolled a poorer quarter of town, she has connections with many of the people there. She lives out of town in a small country house with a big yard for her two Border Collies [and for awhile they even had some sheep to herd] and has a boyfriend who is a fairly senior detective. Her father, also a cop, committed suicide in this house, in the office, and she has made that space into a judo [?] training room for herself and [I think she has a student or two, or a teacher]? The author’s first name is something like Mary Jo … I’d love to read another but I can’t remember a title of the books or the author’s name! Boy is that frustrating bc as you can see I remember a lot of other stuff from books! ;^D

EDIT: Tad thinks this might be the Detective Sarah Alt Mystery Series by Trudy Nan Boyce. Marja confirmed that this is what she was looking for!

Thank you in advance to anyone who answers! As I get possible answers, I’ll post them with the question…

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