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Three New Cozy Mystery Series Coming May 2019

We won’t be getting any new holiday-themed Cozies from site authors next month, but we will be fortunate enough for three new series to be starting instead!

First up, Mollie Cox Bryan will be starting the Classic Star Biography Mystery Series with The Jean Harlow Bombshell. Charlotte Donovan is the assistant to Justine Turner, a world-famous biographer of Hollywood stars who has started on a Jean Harlow biography. But when Justine turns up dead, Charlotte takes up the writing on the biography – only to be stalked by a Jean Harlow look-alike. Charlotte will need to solve the mystery not only to finish her book, but to preserve her own safety and determine exactly what happened to her boss. Mollie Cox Bryan is also the author of the Cora Crafts Mystery Series, the Cumberland Creek Mystery Series, and the also-upcoming Buttermilk Creek Mystery Series.

Next, Leighann Dobbs will be starting her Oyster Cove Guesthouse Mystery Series with A Twist in the Tail. Josie Waters has left her old life and ex-husband to start a new life running the Oyster Cove Guesthouse on the Maine coast, but she hasn’t realized that the building is a dilapidated old building in need of significant work… and even worse, her first guest turns up dead! Leighann Dobbs is also the author of the Lexy Baker Mystery Series, the Blackmoore Sisters Romantic Cozy Mystery Series, and the co-author of several other series as well.

Finally, The Scent of Murder will be the first entry in the new Jazz Ramsey Mystery Series by Kylie Logan. Though Jazz Ramsey’s main job is as an administrative assistant at a girls school, she’s more passionate about her volunteer interest as a cadaver dog handler. But when Jazz is out working with Luther, a dog in training, she’s surprised when Luther signals a find – and even more surprised when she recognizes the victim! Kylie Logan also writes the League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series, the Ethnic Eats Mystery Sereis, the Chili Cook-Off Mystery Series, and the Button Box Mystery Series. She also writes as Casey Daniels, under which name she has written the Pepper Martin Mystery Series, and as Miranda Bliss, the name she used when writing the Cooking Class Mystery Series.

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

New Releases – April 1 to April 7, 2019

Here is the list of new releases for April 1 to April 7!

Fiona Buckley: A Web of Silk (This will be the 16th in the Ursula Blanchard Mystery Series.)

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

Alys Clare: Woman Who Spoke to Spirits (This will be the 1st in the NEW World’s End Bureau Victorian Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Spann Craig (aka Elizabeth Craig & Riley Adams): Checked Out (This will be the 1st in the NEW Village Library Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Spann Craig (aka Elizabeth Craig & Riley Adams): Edit to Death (This will be the 14th in the Myrtle Clover Cozy Mystery Series.)

Jeanne M. Dams: A Dagger Before Me (This will be the 21st in the Dorothy Martin Mystery Series.)

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

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

Veronica Heley: False Account (This will be the 13th in the Abbot Agency 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.)

Rita Lakin: Getting Old Will Haunt You (This will be the 9th in the Gladdy Gold Mystery Series.)

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

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

May 2019 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in May 2019:

Lorraine Bartlett (aka & Lorna Barrett & L. L. Bartlett): The Best From Swans Nest (This will be the 5th in the Lotus Bay Mystery Series. I believe this is a cookbook.)

Simon Beaufort: Watchers of the Dead (This will be the 2nd in the Alec Lonsdale Mystery Series.)

Jenna Bennett (aka Jennie Bentley & Bente Gallagher): Conflict of Interest (This will be the 17th in the Savannah Martin Mystery Series.)

Bethany Blake: Something Borrowed, Something Mewed (This will be the in the Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery Series.)

Kathleen Bridge: Murder by the Sea (This will be the 3rd in the By the Sea Mystery Series.)

Mollie Cox Bryan: The Jean Harlow Bombshell (This will be the 1st in the NEW Classic Star Biography Mystery Series.)

Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib): A Deadly Feast (This will be the 9th in the Key West Food Critic Mystery Series.)

Lynn Cahoon: Sconed to Death (This will be the in the Cat Latimer Mystery Series.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Murder, She Uncovered (This will be the 2nd in the Murder, She Reported Mystery Series.)

Jeffery Deaver: The Never Game (This will be the 1st in the NEW Colter Shaw thriller series.)

Leighann Dobbs: A Twist in the Tail (This will be the 1st in the NEW Oyster Cove Guesthouse Mystery Series.)

Jessica Fletcher: Murder In Red (This will be the 49th in the Murder She Wrote Mystery Series.)

Sarah Fox: Crêpe Expectations (This will be the 5th in the Pancake House Mystery Series.)

Carolyn Haines: Game of Bones (This will be the 20th in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series.)

Charlaine Harris: Small Kingdoms and Other Stories   (Contains stories: Small Kingdoms, Sarah Smiles, Small Chances,& Small Signs)

Iris Johansen: With Open Eyes (This will be a non-Cozy short story mystery.)

Linda O. Johnston: For a Good Paws (This will be the 5th in the Barkery & Biscuits Mystery Series.)

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): The Scent of Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW Jazz Ramsey Mystery Series.)

Sheila Lowe: Proof of Life (This will be the 2nd in the Beyond the Veil Thriller Mystery Series.)

Sujata Massey: The Satapur Moonstone (This will be the 2nd in the Mystery of 1920s India Series.)

Jenn McKinlay: Dying for Devil’s Food (This will be the 11th in the Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series.)

Clare O’Donohue: Breaking the Dance (This will be the 2nd in the World of Spies Mystery Series.)

Katherine Hall Page: The Body in the Wake (This will be the 25th in the Faith Fairchild Mystery Series.)

Nora Page (Ann Myers): Read on Arrival (This will be the 2nd in the Bookmobile Mystery Series.)

Karen Rose Smith: Murder with Cucumber Sandwiches (This will be the 3rd in the Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery Series.)

Lane Stone: Changing of the Guard Dog (This will be the 3rd in the Pet Palace Mystery Series.)

Marcia Talley: Tangled Roots (This will be the 17th in the Hannah Ives Mystery Series.)

Christine Trent: A Murderous Malady (This will be the 2nd in the Florence Nightingale Mystery Series.)

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

March is ending, so let’s discuss our favorite books of the last 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 another frequently recommended book, the first entry in the Vicki Delany Sherlock Holmes Bookshop 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 March? 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 March 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): Book Retreat Mystery Series

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

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): Haunted Home Mystery Series

Lynn Bohard: Old Maids of Mercer Island (first entry Inn Keeping With Murder)

Melissa Bourbon(aka Winnie Archer & Misa Ramirez): Magical Dressmaking Mystery Series

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series

Lynn Cahoon: Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series

Maia Chance: Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery Series

Julie Chase (aka Jacqueline Frost & Julie Anne Lindsey): Kitty Couture Mystery Series

Vivien Chien: Noodle Shop Mystery Series

Laura Childs (aka Gerry Schmitt): Tea Shop Mystery Series

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Coffeehouse Mystery Series

Vicki Delany: Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery Series

Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swensen Mystery Series

Eva Gates (aka Vicki Delany): Lighthouse Library Mystery Series

Charlaine Harris: Lily Bard Mystery Series

Lee Hollis: Hailey Powell Food & Cocktail Mystery Series

Karin Kaufman: Smithwell Fairies Mystery Series (first entry Dying to Remember)

Diane Kelly: House-Flipper Mystery Series

Serena Kent: Death in Provence

Essie Lang (aka Linda Wiken & Erika Chase): Castle Bookshop Mystery Series

Faith Martin: Hillary Greene Mystery Series (not so Cozy, reputedly – first entry A Narrow Road)

Carlene O’Connor: Irish Village Mystery Series

Carol J. Perry: Witch City Mystery Series

William Seil: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Titanic Tragedy

Livia Washburn: Fresh-Baked Mystery Series

Kirsten Weiss: Pie Town Mystery Series

[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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