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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.)

December 2019 Mystery Book New Releases

Normally I would make my first post of the month the upcoming Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movies coming up, but this month will just be Christmas movies on Hallmark… so if you want to check those out, be sure to look at the post I wrote about them last month! So, instead, here’s our preview for December Cozy releases.

The following Mystery Books will be released in December 2019:

Lorraine Bartlett (aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorna Barrett) with Gayle Leeson (aka Gayle Trent & Amanda Lee): Murder Ink (This will be the 6th in the Victoria Square Mystery Series.)

Cynthia Baxter: Last Licks (This will be the 3rd in the Lickety Splits Ice Cream Shoppe Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Lynn Cahoon: Have a Deadly New Year (This will be the 4th in the Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Murder, She Encountered (This will be the 3rd in the Murder, She Reported Mystery Series.)

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Brewed Awakening (This will be the 18th in the Coffeehouse Mystery Series.)

Krista Davis: The Dog Who Knew Too Much (This will be the 6th in the Paws & Claws Mystery Series.)

J.C Eaton: Sauvigone for Good (This will be the 4th in the Wine Trail Mystery Series.)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Matchmaking Can Be Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW Amish Matchmaker Mystery Series.)

Susan Furlong (aka Lucy Arlington, Susan Furlong-Bolliger, & S. Furlong-Bolliger): Shattered Justice (This will be the 3rd in the Bone Gap Travellers Mystery Series.)

Sherry Harris: Sell Low, Sweet Harriet (This will be the 8th in the Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery Series.)

Lee Hollis: Poppy Harmon and the Hung Jury (This will be the 2nd in the Desert Flowers Mystery Series.)

Barbara Ross: Sealed Off (This will be the 8th in the Maine Clambake Mystery Series.)

Paige Shelton: Thin Ice  (This will be a Stand-Alone thriller.)

Denise Swanson: Come Homicide or High Water (This will be the 3rd in the Return to Scumble River Mystery Series, or the 22nd in the Scumble River Mystery Series.)

Christopher Fowler: Bryant & May: The Lonely Hour (This Will be the 16th of the A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery Series.)

If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the November 2019 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.)

Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – October 2019

We’re just about at the end of October, 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 Kaitlyn Dunnett’s Liss MacCrimmon 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 October? 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 October 2019 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Ellery Adams (aka J. B. Stanley, Jennifer Stanley, & 1/2 of Lucy Arlington): Secret,, Book & Scone Society Mystery Series

Ellie Alexander (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley): Bakeshop Mystery Series AND Sloan Krause Mystery Series

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series

Bree Baker (aka Jacqueline Frost, Julie Chase, & Julie Anne Lindsey): Seaside Cafe Mystery Series

Connie Berry: Kate Hamilton Mystery Series (first entry A Dream of Death)

Bethany Blake: Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery Series

Claire Booth: Sheriff Hank Worth Mystery Series (first entry The Branson Beauty)

Lilian Jackson Braun: The Cat Who… Mystery Series

Kathleen Bridge: By the Sea Mystery Series

Allison Brook (aka Marilyn Levinson): Haunted Library Mystery Series

Ellen Byron: Cajun Country Mystery Series

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

Laura Childs (aka Gerry Schmitt): Scrapbooking Mystery Series

Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot Mystery Series

Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra and Nell Hampton): Candy-Coated Mystery Series

Bill Crider: Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery Series

Deborah Crombie: Kincaid & James Mystery Series

Elizabeth Daly: Henry Gamadge Mystery Series

Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin Mystery Series

Jana DeLeon: Miss Fortune Mystery Series

Carola Dunn: Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series

Kaitlyn Dunnett: Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series AND Deadly Edits Mystery Series

Gemma Halliday: High Heels Mystery  Series

Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper): Merry Muffin Mystery Series

B.B. Haywood: Candy Holliday Mystery Series

Miranda James  (aka Dean James,  Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Honor Hartman): Southern Ladies Mystery Series

Carolyn Keene: Nancy Drew Mystery Series (first entry The Secret of the Old Clock)

Victoria Laurie: Ghost Hunter Mystery Series 

Gayle Leeson (aka Gayle Trent & Amanda Lee): Down South Cafe Mystery Series

T.C. LoTempio (aka Toni LoTempio): Purr N’ Bark Pet Shop Mystery Series

Meg Macy: Teddy Bear Mystery Series

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

Patricia Moyes: Henry Tibbett Mystery Series

Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Michaels & Barbara Mertz): Amelia Peabody Mystery Series

Julia Spencer-Fleming: Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne Mystery Series (first entry In the Bleak Midwinter)

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]

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 – October 28 to November 3, 2019

Here is the list of new releases for October 28 to November 3!

Lynn Cahoon: A Very Mummy Holiday (This will be either a novella in or the 11th entry in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series.) (This is a Thanksgiving themed mystery.)

Anne Canadeo (aka Katherine Spencer): Hounds of the Basket Stitch (This will be the 11th in the Black Sheep Mystery Series.)

Kate Carlisle: Shot Through the Hearth (This will be the 7th in the Fixer-Upper Mystery Series.)

Isis Crawford (aka Barbara Block): A Catered New Year’s Eve (This will be the 15th in the Mystery With Recipes Mystery Series.) (This is a New Year’s Eve themed mystery.)

Peggy Ehrhart: Silent Knit, Deadly Knit (This will be the 4th in the Knit & Nibble Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Victoria Laurie: Coached to Death (This will be a Stand Alone Cozy… I think.)

Julie Anne Lindsey (aka Jacqueline Frost, Julie Chase, & Bree Baker): Apple Cider Slaying (This will be the 1st in the NEW Cider Shop Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Barbara Ross: Nogged Off (This Maine Clambake Mystery was previously published in the Egg Nog Murder anthology.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

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