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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.

Eight Soon to be Released Cozy Mystery Covers

Here are some of the upcoming Cozy Mystery covers that I’ve found recently!

   
Ellie Alexander (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley): Beyond a Reasonable Stout (This will be the 3rd in the Sloan Krause Mystery Series.)
Jenna Bennett (aka Jennie Bentley & Bente Gallagher): Right of Redemption (This will be the 18th in the Savannah Martin Mystery Series.)
Lynn Cahoon: Have a Deadly New Year (This will be the 4th in the Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series.)
Kaitlyn Dunnett (aka Kathy Lynn Emerson): A View to a Kilt (This will be the 13th in the Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series.)
Gemma Halliday: Suspect in High Heels (This will be the 10th in the High Heels Mystery Series.)
Leslie Langtry: Make Believe Murder (This will be the 12th in the Merry Wrath Mystery Series.)
Karen Rose Smith: Murder with Cherry Tarts (This will be the 4th in the Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery Series.)
Sara Rosett: Murder in Black Tie (This will be the 4th in the High Society Lady Detective Mystery Series.)

Cozy Mystery News – September 2019

I have a fair amount of good Cozy Mystery news to share with you this month, including good news for four site authors!

First, Betty Hechtman will be starting another new mystery series, the Writer in Residence Mystery Series, which will star a writer-for-hire in the United Kingdom. Hechtman already writes the Crochet Mystery Series, starring a crochet group member and events planner, and the Yarn Retreat Mystery Series, starring a dessert chef and yarn business owner in Monterey, California.

Next up, Anna Lee Huber will be adding another set of books to her Lady Darby Mystery Series, starring the wife of a deceased anatomist in 1830s Scotland. This will bring the series to at least 11 entries! Huber is also the author of the Verity Kent Mystery Series, a widow form the Great War who worked for the Secret Service in post-war England.

 

Andrea Penrose will be continuing the Wrexford & Sloane Mystery Series, which stars the Earl of Wrexford and Charlotte Sloane, a widowed artist, in Regency London. The next novel will be titled Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Penrose also writes the Lady Arianna Regency Mystery Series, also set in the early 1800s, starring a Lady returning to London from the West Indies.

Finally, Elaine Viets will be continuing her Death Investigator Mystery Series, with A Star Is Dead. This, and another as-yet-unnamed entry, will bring the series to a total of four books. Elaine Viets is also the author of the Dead-End Job Mystery Series, starring Helen Hawthorne, worker at a series of bad jobs, and the Mystery Shopper Mystery Series, starring Josie Marcus, a plain clothes store detective in Missouri.

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