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Cozy Mystery News – June 2019

It’s another modest month for Cozy Mystery news, with only three announcements:

First, for those of us who are fans of  Tasha Alexander – you’ll be pleased to know she will again be using her studies of English Literature and Medieval History. That’s right! She’ll be releasing another entry in her Lady Emily Mystery Series, bringing the series to a total of 15 entries, including one more that is scheduled for release in January of 2020 (In the Shadow of Vesuvius), plus this newly announced novel. The very Victorian Lady Emily will be going to Florence this time to do her sleuthing. 

Izzy, Nell, Cass, & Birdie have just gotten the green light to solve at least three more mysteries! Sally Goldenbaum will be releasing three more books in her Seaside Knitters Society Mystery Series. The Sea Harbor, Massachusetts knitting group will be kept busy not only knitting, but solving crimes. (Sally Goldenbaum also writes the Queen Bees Quilt Shop Mystery Series.)

Move over Margaret Grace, Jean Flowers, & Ada Madison! Camille Minichino will be adding a new pseudonym to that list. Enter Elizabeth Logan!  Camille Minichino (writing as Elizabeth Logan) will be starting up the Alaskan Diner Mystery Series soon. The star sleuth of this series is a woman returning to Alaska to run her retired parents’ diner. As a fan of Camille Minichino, I’m delighted to know this series will include at least three Cozies. I started reading Camille’s Cozies years ago when she released her Periodic Table Mystery Series. (I can’t believe that was over 20 years ago!) She also writes the Miniature Mystery Series (as Margaret Grace), the Postmistress Mystery Series (as Jean Flowers), and the Sophie Knowles Mystery Series (as Ada Madison).

That covers the June 2019 Cozy Mystery News. I’ll have more news next month!

2018 Agatha Award Winners and Nominees

I am waaaaaay late in telling you about the 2018 Agatha Award winners. The Malice Domestic convention was held in Bethesda, Maryland at the very beginning of this month (the first weekend). Lots of the nominated and winning authors are Cozy Mystery authors we’ve been talking about/reading/recommending right here on this site. Even though it is now 2019, this list of the authors and their books are from books that were published during 2018.

As I have mentioned before, the Agatha Awards are the awards that most represent the Coziest of Cozy Mysteries. These are the awards that are closest to the types of mystery books we celebrate on this site. Many of us will be able to find a few (at least!) of our very favorite authors on this list.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE 2018 NOMINEES AND WINNERS!

Best Agatha Award Contemporary Novel 2018:
2018:  Mardi Gras Murder by Ellen Byron  (winner)
Beyond the Truth by Bruce Robert Coffin
Cry Wolf by Annette Dashofy
Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
Trust Me by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Best Agatha Award First Novel 2018:
2018:  Tie:
              A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne Freeman (winner)
              Curses, Boiled Again! by Shari Randall (winner)
Little Comfort by Edwin Hill
What Doesn’t Kill You by Aimee Hix
Deadly Solution by Keenan Powell

Best Agatha Award Historical Novel 2018:
2018:  The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (winner)
Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding by Rhys Bowen
The Gold Pawn by LA Chandlar
Turning the Tide by Edith Maxwell
Murder on Union Square by Victoria Thompson

Best Agatha Award Short Story 2018:
2018: Tie:
          “All God’s Sparrows” by Leslie Budewitz (winner)
          “The Case of the Vanishing Professor” by Tara Laskowski (winner)
“A Postcard for the Dead” by Susanna Calkins
“Bug Appetit” by Barb Goffman
“English 398: Fiction Workshop” by Art Taylor

Best Agatha Award Children’s/Young Adult Mystery 2018:
2018:  Potion Problems (Just Add Magic) by Cindy Callaghan
Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
A Side of Sabotage by C.M. Surrisi 

Best Agatha Award Nonfiction 2018:
2018:  Mastering Plot Twists by Jane Cleland (winner)
Writing the Cozy Mystery by Nancy J. Cohen
Conan Doyle for the Defense by Margalit Fox 
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson
Wicked Women of Ohio by Jane Ann Turzillo 

Again,

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE 2018 NOMINEES AND WINNERS!

P.S. If you would like to see Agatha Award nominees and winners from previous years, go to the Mystery Book Awards page on my Cozy Mystery site and click on the provided links.

New Releases – June 3 to June 9, 2019

Here is the list of new releases for June 3 to June 9!

Rita Mae Brown: Whiskers in the Dark (This will be the 28th in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series.)

Kate Carlisle: The Book Supremacy (This will be the 13th in the Bibliophile Mystery Series.)

Lindsey Davis: Invitation to Die (This will be a novella set in ancient Rome.)

Sally Goldenbaum: A Patchwork of Clues (This will be the 1st in the Queen Bees Quilt Shop Mystery Series. This book was previously released as Murders on Elderberry Road in ’03.)

Candace Robb: A Conspiracy of Wolves (This will be the 11th in the Owen Archer Mystery Series.)

July 2019 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in July 2019:

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): Bewitched and Betrothed (This will be the 10th in the Bakeshop Mystery Series.)

Catherine Bruns: Penne Dreadful (This will be the 1st in the NEW Italian Chef Mystery Series.)

Julia Buckley: Death in a Budapest Butterfly (This will be the 1st in the NEW Hungarian Tea House Mystery Series.)

Laurie Cass (aka Laura Alden): Booking the Crook (This will be the 7th in the Bookmobile Cat Mystery Series.)

Sheila Connolly: Killer in the Carriage House (This will be the 2nd in the Victorian Village Mystery Series.)

Lindsey Davis: A Capitol Death (This will be the 7th in the Flavia Albia Mystery Series.)

Mary Feliz : Cliff Hanger (This will be the 5th in the Maggie McDonald Mystery Series.)

Sally Goldenbaum: A Thread of Darkness (This will be the 2nd in the Queen Bees Quilt Shop Mystery Series. This book was previously released as A Murder of Taste in ’04.)

Sherry Harris: Let’s Fake a Deal (This will be the 7th in the Sarah W. Garage Sale Mystery Series.)

Miranda James (aka Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Dean James): The Pawful Truth (This will be the 11th in the Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series.)

Iris Johansen: Smokescreen (This will be the 22nd in the non-Cozy thriller Eve Duncan Series.)

Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams): Heart of Barkness (This will be the 9th in the Chet & Bernie Mystery Series.)

David Rosenfelt: Bark of Night (This will be the 19th in the Andy Carpenter Mystery Series.)

S.J. Rozan: Paper Son (This will be the 12th in the Lydia Chinn/Bill Smith Mystery Series.)

Suzanne Trauth: No More Time (This will be the 5th in the Dodie O’Dell Mystery Series.)

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

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