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New Releases – September 23 to September 29, 2019

Here is the list of new releases for September 23 to September 29!

Ellie Alexander  (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley): A Cup of Holiday Fear (This will be the 10th in the Bakeshop Mystery Series.) (This will be a Christmas themed mystery.)

Bree Baker (aka Jacqueline Frost, Julie Chase, & Julie Anne Lindsey): Tide and Punishment (This will be the 3rd in the Seaside Café Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Laurien Berenson: Here Comes Santa Paws (This will be the 24th in the Melanie Travis Mystery Series.)

Stephanie Blackmoore: Marry Christmas Murder (This will be the 5th in the Wedding Planner Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey): A Killer Carol (This will be the 7th in the Amish Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries and the Alms of the Angel (This will be the 38th in the Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series.)

Mollie Cox Bryan: Christmas Cow Bells (This will be the 1st in the NEW Buttermilk Creek Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra & Nell Hampton): Fudge Bites (This will be the 7th in the Candy-Coated Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery series.)

Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker), Carlene O’Connor, & Alex Erickson: Christmas Cocoa Murder (This is a Christmas themed mystery anthology with novellas by all three of the authors.)

Margaret Dumas: Murder in the Balcony (This will be the 2nd in the Movie Palace Mystery Series.)

Debra H. Goldstein: Two Bites Too Many (This will be the 2nd in the Sarah Blair Mystery Series.)

J. A. Jance: Sins of the Fathers (This will be 24th in the J.P. Beaumont Mystery Series.)

Tonya Kappes: Valleys, Vehicles & Victims (This will be the 9th in the Camper & Criminals Mystery Series.)

Laura Levine: Death of a Gigolo (This will be the 17th in the Jaine Austen Mystery Series.)

Meg Macy (aka 1/2 of D.E. Ireland): Have Yourself a Beary Little Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Teddy Bear Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Archer Mayor: Bomber’s Moon (This will be the 30th in the Joe Gunther non-Cozy Mystery Series.)

Andrea Penrose: Murder at Kensington Palace (This will be the 3rd in the Wrexford & Sloane Mystery Series.)

Carol J. Perry: Late Checkout (This will be the 9th in the Witch City Mystery Book 9)

Leigh Perry (aka Toni L.P. Kelner): The Skeleton Stuffs a Stocking (This will be the 6th in the Family Skeleton Mystery Series.)

Five New Christmas Holiday-Themed Cozies Coming October 2019

As I already mentioned, October will be a busy month for Cozy releases – aside from the three I already discussed earlier, there will be five more Christmas-themed Cozies! Plus, a few re-releases that seem worth mentioning.

First, Donna Andrews will be putting out the 26th in her Meg Langslow Mystery Series, Owl Be Home for Christmas. This entry will be the 6th Christmas entry in the series, and Meg will be enjoying this holiday at the Caerphilly Inn, where her grandfather is hosting a conference on owls. When a snow storm traps the conference attendees at the inn, one of the visiting guests is found murderer, leaving the visitors stranded and forced to find the killer themselves. Donna Andrews is also the author of the Turing Hopper Mystery Series.

Peggy Ehrhart will be putting out Silent Knit, Deadly Knit, the 4th in the Knit & Nibble Mystery Series. Empty-nester Pamela is in especially good spirits with the holiday visit by her daughter Penny, home from college for the holidays, but her daughter’s vacation is interrupted when she stumbles on the body of a deceased local who seems to have been a magnet for trouble many times before. Peggy Ehrhart is also the author of the Maxx Maxwell Mystery Series.

Next up is a bit of an unusual release, a set of three short Christmas releases by Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, and Leslie Meier, released under the title Christmas Sweets. The Joanne Fluke entry will be from the Hannah Swensen Mystery Series, the Laura Levine entry will be from the Jaine Austen Mystery Series, and the Leslie Meier entry will be from the Lucy Stone Mystery Series. It also includes holiday recipes. UPDATE: It sounds like these are all reprints, so you may want to check your owned anthologies and other purchases!

Josi S. Kilpack will be releasing The Candy Cane Caper, which will be the 13th in the Culinary Mystery Series. Culinary expert and amateur sleuth Sadie Hoffmiller is preparing for a large family gathering in their home of Fort Collins, Colorado, when she hears that a friend has been the victim of robbery – a very old and expensive set of Christmas ornaments. This entry will also include recipes.

Next up, Lois Winston will be putting out Handmade Ho-Ho Homicide, the 8th in the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery Series. Widow and magazine crafts editor Anastasia Pollack is returning a set of unwanted and unasked for ornaments to her half-brother-in-law Ira, when she locates the corpse of a dead neighbor who had crossed paths with Ira previously. Lois Winston is also the author of the Empty Nest Mystery Series.

Finally, I’m not going to give full write-ups for these, but there are two other releases of note if you’re already in a festive mood – Leslie Meier will be releasing Tis the Season Murder, which contains both books #12 & #20 – New Year’s Eve Murder  and Christmas Carol Murder from the Lucy Stone Mystery Series, while Barbara Ross will be putting out Nogged Off, a Maine Clambake Mystery which was previously published in the Egg Nog Murder anthology.

For more Christmas Cozy Mysteries, check out the Christmas Mystery Book Series page on the site.

Two New Non-Christmas Holiday-Themed Cozies and One New Cozy Mystery Series Coming October 2019

October will be another very busy month for Cozy Mysteries, with a whopping 8 holiday-themed Cozies and one new Cozy Mystery Series by an established author! Well, normally with that many I would split them into two posts… but here, the new series is starting with a holiday release! So I’m just going to arbitrarily split them into two groups, one of non-Christmas mysteries and the new series, and save the just-Christmas mysteries for this weekend. That leaves us with three for today!

First up, Lynn Cahoon will be putting out A Very Mummy Holiday, which will be either a novella in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series or a novella in the series. (Unfortunately Amazon doesn’t have a length for this one…) Jill is taking a break from her book and coffee shop to spend Thanksgiving on the Oregon coast with her boyfriend and a bunch of other friends and family. But the holiday might be cut short when one of the other guests locates old human remains in the nearby dunes, and she’ll need to put her holiday on hold to make sure that the mystery gets solved. Lynn Cahoon is also the author of the Cat Latimer Mystery Series starring a former English professor and the Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series starring the owner of a farm to table restaurant. 

Next, Isis Crawford will be putting out A Catered New Year’s Eve, the 15th in the Mystery With Recipes Mystery Series. Bernie and Libby Simmons are reuniting with Ada Sinclair, a distant relative for New Years’s Eve, catering for a questionable ploy to flush out the murderer of another relative year’s ago. Naturally, this goes wrong, and when one of the guests Ada planned on accusing ends up dead, Ada ends up arrested for the deed. Bernie and Libby are the only ones who can find the true culprit. Crawford also writes as Barbara Block, the name she uses for the Robin Light Mystery Series, starring a pet store owner.

Finally, the last for this set will be Julie Anne Lindsey‘s Apple Cider Slaying, a Christmas mystery and the first in her new Cider Shop Mystery Series! Wonona Mae Montgomery and her Granny Smythe run a struggling orchard in Blossom Valley, West Virginia, but have decided to try to make up some business with a Christmas party at the orchard geared toward locals and tourists alike. Unfortunately, the party will be crashed by the corpse of Granny’s old nemesis, leaving Granny the most obvious suspect! Julie Anne Lindsey writes several other short series, including the Fortress Defense Mystery Series, the Geek Girl Mystery Series, and the Patience Price Mystery Series.

For more Christmas Cozy Mysteries, check out the Christmas Mystery Book Series page on the site.

For more Christmas Cozy Mysteries, check out the Thanksgiving Mystery Book Series page on the site.

For more Halloween Cozy Mysteries, check out the New Year’s Mystery Book Series page on the site.

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

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