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Cozy Mystery News – August 2020

August has a fair amount of news for Cozy Mystery fans…

First up, Allison Brook (aka Marilyn Levinson) will be releasing A Deadly Event. I’m not sure if this is going to be part of the Haunted Library Mystery Series, but it is going to be about a doctor dying in a chocolate fountain and the sleuth is going to be a librarian, so it certainly seems likely to be the 5th entry in the Haunted Library Mystery Series.

Next up, Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence) has confirmed that she will be adding a 13th book to the Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series, with an entry titled For Batter or Worse. Melanie Cooper and her fiance will need to solve a murder while preparing for their wedding.

 

 

Terrie Farley Moran will be taking over the “Murder, She Wrote” book series, starting with Murder: She Wrote: A Killing in a Koi Pond, in which an old college friend who Jessica is visiting becomes the primary witness in her husband’s murder.

 

 

Finally, Ashley Weaver will be starting a new series starting with A Peculiar Combination, in which a safecracker working with the British government during the WWII Blitz in London to help expose a German spy in exchange for her freedom.

Two New Cozy Mystery Series and One New Holiday Cozy Coming September 2020

September will have two new Cozy series by established site authors and a new Christmas Cozy!

First, Melissa Bourbon and Wendy Lyn Watson will be releasing Murder in Devil’s Cove, the first in their new Book Magic Mystery Series. Pippin Lane Hawthorne and Cora Lane are cousins living on opposite sites of the country (the first in Devil’s Cove, North Carolina, the other in Laurel Point, Oregon). However, they both have different attitudes to their shared gift – the ability to read both the future and the past through reading books. Melissa Bourbon also writes the Magical Dressmaking Mystery Series, the Bread Shop Mystery Series (as Winnie Archer) and the Lola Cruz Mystery Series (as Misa Ramirez). Wendy Lyn Watson is the author of the Mystery a la Mode Mystery Series and the Pet Boutique Mystery Series (as Annie Knox).

The other new series will be Lee Hollis‘s May and Sandra Mystery Series, which will start with Murder at the PTA. Sandra Wallage is the newly elected PTA president, while Maya Kendrick is a private detective. Both are unhappy that someone is using Portland High as a source for a gossip website, but when the pair track down and attempt to confront the columnist, they find them dead. Though the police consider the case a suicide, neither are satisfied with that conclusion, feeling that someone else was involved. Lee Hollis is also the author of the Hailey Powell Mystery Series and the Desert Flowers Mystery Series.

Finally, we’ll be getting one Christmas themed Cozy, Dying in a Winter Wonderland, the fifth entry in the Christmas-themed Year-Round Christmas Mystery Series by Vicky Delany. Christmas has once again arrived in Rudolph, New York, and Merry Wilkinson is looking forward to what will hopefully be a restful holiday, but a local bride is looking to move up her wedding and is pressuring Merry to help make sure the decorations are ready for the new, earlier deadline. Unfortunately, the wedding will never happen, as the bride’s fiance is found murdered at the proposed venue, and it will once again be up to Merry to help solve the case before the end of the holiday season.

For more new Cozy Mystery Series, check out the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page on the site.

Form more Christmas Cozies, check out the Christmas Mystery Book List page on the site. 

New Releases – August 10 to August 16, 2020

Here is the list of new releases for August 10 to August 16!

Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib): The Key Lime Crime (This will be the 10th in the Key West Food Critic Mystery Series.)

V.M. Burns: Paw and Order (This will be the 4th in the Dog Club Mystery Series.)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Mums and Mayhem (This will be the 3rd in the Magic Garden Mystery Series.)

Victoria Gilbert: Booked for Death (This will be the 1st in the NEW Booklover’s B&B Mystery Series.)

September 2020 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in September 2020:

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

Melissa Bourbon (aka Winnie Archer & Misa Ramirez) and Wendy Lyn Watson: Murder in Devil’s Cove (This will be the 1st in the NEW Book Magic Mystery Series.)

Allison Brook (aka Marilyn Levinson): Checked Out for Murder (This will be the 4th in the Haunted Library Mystery Series.)

Ellen Byron (aka Maria DiRico): Murder in the Bayou Boneyard (This will be the 6th in the Cajun Country Mystery Series.)

Ann Cleeves: The Darkest Evening (This will be the 9th in the non-Cozy Vera Stanhope 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.)

Agatha Frost: Profiteroles and Poison (This will be the 21st in the Peridale Cafe Cozy Mystery Series.)

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

Ellen Hart: In a Midnight Wood (This will be the 27th in the Jane Lawless Mystery Series.)

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

Sofie Kelly (aka Sofie Ryan): The Case of Cat and Mouse (This will be the 12th in the Magical Cats Mystery Series.)

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

Edward Marston (aka Keith Miles and Conrad Allen): Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel (This will be the 18th in the Railway Detective Mystery Series.)

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Taken Too Soon (This will be the 6th in the Quaker Midwife Mystery Series.)

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

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): One for the Books (This will be the 11th in the Library Lover’s Mystery Series.)

Louise Penny: All the Devils Are Here (This will be the 16th in the Chief Inspector Gamache 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.)

Ashley Weaver: A Deception at Thornecrest (This will be the 8th in the Amory Ames Mystery Series.)

Kirsten Weiss: Oolong, Farewell (This will be the 3rd in the Tea and Tarot Mystery Series.)

If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the August 2020 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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