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New Releases – March 4 to March 10, 2019

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

Laura Childs: Broken Bone China (This will be the 20th in the Tea Shop Mystery Series.)

Jeffery Deaver: Captivated (This will be a story with a lot of suspense.)

Carolyn Haines: Bone-a-fied Trouble (This will be the 9th book in the Familiar Legacy Mystery Series. Haines’ Sarah Booth Delaney characters will have a cameo in this mystery book.)

Donna Leon: Unto Us a Son Is Given (This will be the 28th in the Guido Brunetti Mystery Series.)

M. Louisa Locke: Scholarly Pursuits (This will be the 6th in the Victorian San Francisco Mystery Series.)

Kirsten Weiss: Chocolate à la Murder (This will be the 4th in the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Mystery Series.)

I’ve Heard about Christmas in July, but What about September and October?

I’ve been busy updating the Soon to be Released page on my site, and it looks to me like some editors have decided to showcase Holiday Cozy Mysteries! As some of you know, I’m all for that!

I know I’ve talked a whole lot about how we never see a “real” winter here in San Antonio.  Today, while I was walking our puppy (Cocoa), I saw three different houses that had irises blooming. Yep … we are three weeks away from spring, and already we have flowers blooming that usually wait until “early spring to early summer” (according to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden site). (I absolutely love reading Cozies during the holiday season – they give me a little taste of the colder months that I miss…)

Not only are there Christmas themed Cozy Mysteries being released in September and October, there is one that’s going to be released in August! And, I found a New Year’s Eve book as well!

Wow, am I glad someone is making more holiday Cozies available for readers like me who look forward to reading them!

So here’s a reminder for you all: Take a look at the Soon to be Released page on my site every once in a while. (I try to keep it updated.) Not only will you be able to find Holiday Cozies, you will probably find one, two, or even more of your favorite Cozy Mystery authors who will be releasing new books.

April 2019 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in April 2019:

Ellery Adams (aka Jennifer Stanley, J. B. Stanley, & 1/2 of Lucy Arlington): Murder in the Reading Room (This will be the 5th in the Book Retreat Mystery Series.)

Barbara Allan: Antiques Ravin’ (This will be the 13th in the Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery Series.)

David Baldacci: Redemption (This will be the 5th in the Memory Man Mystery Series.)

Susan Bernhardt: Murder Misunderstood (This will be the 5th in the Kay Driscoll Mystery Series.)

Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber): A Witch to Remember (This will be the 9th in the Wishcraft Mystery Series.)

Frances Brody: A Snapshot of Murder (This will be the 9th in the Kate Shackleton Mystery Series.)

Catherine Bruns: Cindy York Mysteries Boxed Set (This contains books # 1, 2, & 3)

Julia Buckley: Death Waits in the Dark (This will be the 4th in the Writer’s Apprentice Mystery Series.)

V.M. Burns: Wed, Read & Dead (This will be the 4th in the Mystery Bookshop Mystery Series.)

Lynn Cahoon: Mother’s Day Mayhem (This will be a novella in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series.) (This is a Mother’s Day themed mystery.)

Susanna Calkins: Murder Knocks Twice (This will be the 1st in the NEW Speakeasy Mystery Series.)

Krista Davis: The Diva Sweetens the Pie (This will be the in the Domestic Diva Mystery Series.)

Peggy Ehrhart: Knit One, Die Two (This will be the 3rd in the Knit & Nibble Mystery Series.)

Janet Finsilver: Murder at the Marina (This will be the 5th in the Kelly Jackson Mystery Series.)

Daryl Wood Gerber (aka Avery Aames): Sifting Through Clues (This will be the 8th in the Cookbook Nook Mystery Series.)

Parnell Hall: Lights! Camera! Puzzles! (This will be the 20th in the Puzzle Lady Mystery Series.)

Nancy Herriman: A Fall of Shadows (This will be the 2nd in the Bess Ellyott Mystery Series.)

Anne Hillerman: The Tale Teller (This will be the 23rd in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Mystery Series.)

Lee Hollis: Death of a Wedding Cake Baker (This will be the 11th in the Hayley Powell Mystery Series.)

Anna Lee Huber: An Artless Demise (This will be the 7th in the Lady Darby Mystery Series.)

J. A. Jance: The A List (This will be the 14th in the Ali Reynolds Mystery Series.)

Leslie Karst: Murder from Scratch (This will be the 4th in the Sally Solari Mystery Series.)

Edith Maxwell: (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Charity’s Burden(This will be the 4th in the Quaker Midwife Mystery Series.)

Catriona McPherson: Scot and Soda (This will be the 2nd in the Last Ditch Mystery Series.)

Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Cat Chase the Moon (This will be the 21st in the Joe Grey Mystery Series.)

Sharon Pape: Magickal Mystery Lore (This will be the 4th in the Abracadabra Mystery Series.)

Anne Perry: Triple Jeopardy (This will be the 2nd in the Daniel Pitt Mystery Series.)

Sara Rosett: The Egyptian Antiquities Murder (This will be the 3rd in the High Society Lady Detective Mystery Series.)

Ann B. Ross: Miss Julia Takes the Wheel (This will be the 21st in the Miss Julia Mystery Series.)

C.J. Sansom: Tombland (This will be the 7th in the Matthew Shardlake Mystery Series.)

Paige Shelton: The Loch Ness Papers (This will be the 4th in the Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series.)

Victoria Thompson: Murder on Trinity Place (This will be the 22nd in the Gaslight Mystery Series.)

Lea Wait: Thread on Arrival (This will be the 8th in the Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series.)

If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the March 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 – February 2019

February’s coming to an end, so now’s the time to discuss the books that we’ve enjoyed the most in the 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 a frequently recommended book, the first entry in Victoria Hamilton’s Merry Muffin 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 February? 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 February 2019 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:

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

Winnie Archer (aka Melissa Bourbon & Misa Ramirez): Bread Shop Mystery Series

Kelley Armstrong: Casey Duncan Mystery Series (first entry City of the Lost)

Donald Bain and Jessica Fletcher: Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series

Bree Baker: Seaside Cafe Mystery Series (first entry Live and Let Chai)

Stephanie Blackmoore: Wedding Planner Mystery Series

Rhys Bowen: The Victory Garden

Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone

Elizabeth Craig  (aka Riley Adams & Elizabeth Spann Craig): Myrtle Clover Mystery Series

Rich Curtin: Manny Rivera Mystery Series (first entry Artifacts of Death)

Kate Dyer-Seeley (aka Ellie Alexander): Rose City Mystery Series

Charles Finch: Charles Lenox Mystery Series

Sarah Fox: Literary Pub Mystery Series

Victoria Gilbert: Blue Ridge Library Mystery Series

Dorothy Gilman: Mrs. Pollifax Mystery Series

Victoria Hamilton: Merry Muffin Mystery Series

Sophie Hannah: New Hercule Poirot Mysteries (The Mystery of Three Quarters)

Eileen Curley Hammond: Merry March Mystery Series (first entry Murder So Sinful)

Charlaine Harris: Lily Bard Mystery Series

Sherry Harris: Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery Series

Joseph Joria: Professor Norman Mystery Series (first entry The Price of Their Toys)

Diane Kelly: House-Flipper Mystery Series

Catherine Lloyd: Kurland St Mary Mystery Series

Dale Mayer: Lovely Lethal Gardens Mystery Series (first entry Arsenic in the Azaleas)

Alexis Morgan: Abby McCree Mystery Series (first entry Death by Committee)

Patricia Moyes: Henry Tibbett Mystery Series

Liz Mugavero (aka Cate Conte): Pawsitively Organic Mystery Series

Nancy J. Parra (aka Nancy Coco and Nell Hampton): Wine Country Mystery Series

Sheri Richey: Spicetown Mystery Series (first entry Welcome to Spicetown)

Sofie Ryan (aka Sofie Kelly & Darlene Ryan for Young Adult): Second Chance Cat Mystery Series

Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe Mystery Series

Hillary Waugh: Girl on the Run and Pure Poison

[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.

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