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Cozy Mystery News – November 2019

We’ve got a fair amount of good Cozy Mystery news to catch up on!

First, Laurie Cass (aka Laura Alden) will be releasing two new books in her Bookmobile Cozy Cat Mystery Series, taking the series to a total of at least nine entries starring sleuth Minnie Hamilton, bookmobile librarian in Michigan. Laura Cass also writes the PTA Mystery Series under the name Laura Alden.

Next up, Debra H. Goldstein will be putting out two more books in the Sarah Blair Mystery Series, starring a law firm receptionist, bringing the series to four entries. The fourth entry will be called Four Cuts Too Many. Goldstein also writes the Carrie Martin and the Mah Jongg Players Mystery Series and the Denney Silber Mystery Series.

Finally, Marcia Talley will be putting out another entry in the Hannah Ives Mystery Series, taking the series to a total of eighteen entries – quite a long-running series now! The new entry starring Hannah Ives will be title Done Gone.

New Releases – November 11 to November 17, 2019

Here is the list of new releases for November 11 to November 17!

Frances Brody: The Body on the Train (This will be the 11th in the Kate Shackleton Mystery Series.)

Lynn Cahoon: Memories and Murder (This will be the 10th in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series.)

Janet Evanovich: Twisted Twenty-Six (This will be the 26th in the Stephanie Plum Mystery Series.)

Martha Grimes: The Old Success (This will be the 25th in the Richard Jury Mystery Series.)

Gigi Pandian: The Glass Thief (This will be the 6th in the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Series.)

My Life is Murder TV Mystery Show

My Life is Murder is a terrific Australian television mystery show. (Why is it that the best mystery shows are imports?!) If I had to describe it in just one sentence … let’s see … I guess I’d say it has the same overall feeling as the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries only it’s set in present-day Australia and the sleuth isn’t as interested in men.

The sleuth of this Australian mystery series is Alexa Crowe, a retired police detective who is determined to live a quiet, uncomplicated life while baking artisan bread at home. (Alexa is brilliantly played by Lucy Lawless.) Unfortunately for Alexa, her old partner from the police force keeps intruding on her quiet bread-baking life. Detective Inspector Hussey (Bernard Curry) seems to pop up all over town to fill Alexa in on difficult cases he needs her to solve. (When I say “pop up” that’s exactly what I mean! How about while enjoying a Tai Chi class in the park?)

Alexa is “aided and abetted” by Madison, a very capable computer whiz (as in hacker!). Ebony Vagulans is terrific as Madison – and although I don’t recognize her from anything else, I sure hope I see her in lots of shows in the future.

My husband and I are slowly making our way through the My Life is Murder series. It’s one of those shows we know will be limited since Australian series don’t have as many episodes in a season as we do here in the States. (Yet another complaint related to the second sentence in this blog entry!)

I definitely recommend the My Life is Murder mystery show! We are watching it through our Amazon Prime membership on our Acorn subscription.

If you’re interested in finding some other TV mystery (and some non-mystery) shows, then take a look at the TV and Movies page on my Cozy Mystery site.

New Releases – November 4 to November 10, 2019

Here is the list of new releases for November 4 to November 10!

Tasha Alexander: Upon the Midnight Clear (This will be a short Christmas story in the Lady Emily Mystery Series.)

Tessa Arlen: Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders (This will be the 1st in the NEW Woman of WWII Mystery Series.)

Terri Blackstock: Smoke Screen (This will be a Stand Alone novel.)

Catherine Bruns: Ginger Snapped to Death (This will be the 8th in the Cookies & Chance Mystery Series.)

JoAnna Carl (aka Eve K. Sandstrom): The Chocolate Shark Shenanigans (This will be the 17th in the Chocoholic Mystery Series.)

Sally Chapman (aka Annie Griffin): Dead Wrong (This will be the 1st in the NEW Agatha’s Amish B&B Mystery Series.)

Mary Higgins Clark: Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry (This will be a Stand Alone thrilling mystery.)

Ellen Crosby: The Angel’s Share (This will be the 10th in the Wine Country Mystery Series.)

Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper): Cast Iron Alibi (This will be the 9th in the Vintage Kitchen Mystery Series.)

Karen MacInerney: Lucy’s Farmhouse Kitchen (This will be a recipe book based off the Dewberry Farm Mystery Series.)

Anne Perry: A Christmas Gathering (This will be the 17th in the Christmas Mystery Series.)

Eugenia Lovett West: Firewall (This will be a Stand-Alone non-Cozy novel.)

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