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New Releases – January 7 to January 13, 2019

Here is the list of new releases for January 7 to January 13!

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): The Lost Traveller (This will be the 7th in the County Cork Mystery Series.)

E. J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Bones Behind the Wheel (This will be the 10th in the Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series.)

Gigi Pandian: The Alchemist’s Illusion (This will be the 4th in the Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series.)

Nancy J. Parra (aka Nancy Coco & Nell Hampton): Seven Deadly Zins (This will be the 2nd in the Wine Country Mystery Series.)

Tracy Weber: Murder Likes It Hot (This will be the 6th in the Downward Dog Mystery Series.)

New Releases – December 31, 2018 to January 6, 2019

Here is the list of new releases for December 31 to January 6! Well, it’s a bit late… between the end of month recommendations and the beginning of month releases for February, this was the post that sort of “slipped through the cracks” for a while. Still, better late than never!

Ellie Alexander (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley): Live and Let Pie (This will be the 9th in the Bakeshop Mystery Series.)

Lorraine Bartlett (aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorna Barrett): The Reluctant Bride (This will be the 5th story in the Life On Victoria Square Mystery Series.)

Tami Hoag: The Boy (This will be a Stand Alone thrilling mystery.)

Molly MacRae: Crewel and Unusual (This will be the 6th in the Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery Series.)

February 2019 Mystery Book New Releases

Happy New Year!

The following Mystery Books will be released in February 2019:

Rhys Bowen: The Victory Garden (This will be a non-mystery Stand Alone novel.)

V.M. Burns: The Puppy Who Knew Too Much (This will be the 2nd in the Dog Club Mystery Series.)

Lynn Cahoon: Corned Beef and Casualties (This will be the 10th in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series.)

Bill Crider: That Old Scoundrel Death (This will be the 25th in the Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery Series.)

Mary Daheim: A Case of Bier (This will be the 31st in the Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery Series.)

Margaret Dumas: Murder at the Palace (This will be the 1st in the NEW Movie Palace Mystery Series.)

Kate Ellis: Dead Man’s Lane (This will be the 23rd in the Wesley Peterson Mystery Series.)

Charles Finch: The Vanishing Man (This will be a prequel to the Charles Lenox Mystery Series.)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Murders and Metaphors (This will be the 3rd in the Magical Bookshop Mystery Series.)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Criminally Cocoa (This will be the 5th – or a novella – in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series.) (This is an Easter themed mystery.)

Joanne Fluke: Chocolate Cream Pie Murder (This will be the 24th in the Hanna Swensen Mystery Series.)

Victoria Gilbert: Past Due for Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Blue Ridge Library Mystery Series.)

Lee Goldberg: Killer Thriller (This will be the 2nd in the Ian Ludlow Thrillers.)

Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper & Donna Lea Simpson): A Gentlewoman’s Guide to Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW A Gentlewoman’s Guide to Murder Mystery Series.)

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles: Headlong (This will be the 21st in the Bill Slider Mystery Series.)

Tina Kashian: One Feta in the Grave (This will be the 3rd in the Kebab Kitchen Mystery Series.)

Jonathan Kellerman: The Wedding Guest (This will be the 34th in the Alex Delaware Mystery Series.)

Carlene O’Connor: Murder in an Irish Pub (this will be the 4th in the Irish Village Mystery Series.)

Carol J. Perry: Final Exam (This will be the 8th in the Witch City Mystery Series.)

Shari Randall: Drawn and Buttered (This will be the 3rd in the Lobster Shack Mystery Series.)

J. D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts): Connections in Death (This will be the 48th in the Eve Dallas In Death Mystery Series.)

Peter Robinson: Careless Love (This will be the 25th in the Inspector Banks Mystery Series.)

Annelise Ryan (aka Allyson K. Abbott & Beth Amos): Dead of Winter (This will be the 10th in the Mattie Winston Mystery Series.)

Charles Todd: The Black Ascot (This will be the 21st in the Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery Series.)

Kirsten Weiss: Pie Hard (This will be the 3rd in the Pie Town Mystery Series.)

If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the January 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 – December 2018

I hope everyone’s been having a great holiday season! December is coming to an end, and with it the end of the year. So now’s a great time to discuss our Cozy Mystery recommendations for 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 Charlotte MacLeod’s Peter Shandy Mystery Series, an old favorite of mine that I hadn’t read in a while that happened to start with a Christmas book. 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 December? 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 December 2018 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:

Jeffrey Allen (aka Jeff Shelby): Stay At Home Dad Mystery Series

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series

Maymee Bell (aka Tonya Kappes): Southern Cake Baker Mystery Series

Stephanie Blackmoore: Wedding Planner Mystery Series

Rhys Bowen: Molly Murphy Mystery Series

Anne Celeste Burke: Georgia Shaw Cozy Mystery Series (fist entry Murder at Catmmando Mountain)

Kate Carlisle: Bibliophile Mystery Series

Leena Clover: Meera Patel Mystery Series (first entry Gone with the Wings)

Diane Mott Davidson: Goldy Bear Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Pen & Ink Mystery Series

Carole Nelson Douglas: Midnight Louis & Temple Barr Mystery Series

Kaitlyn Dunnett (aka Kathy Lynn Emerson): Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series

Kay Finch: Bad Luck Cat Mystery Series

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Magic Garden Mystery Series

Sarah Fox: Literary Pub Mystery Series

Jacqueline Frost (aka Julie Chase & Julie Anne Lindsey): Christmas Tree Farm Mystery Series

Daryl Wood Gerber (aka Avery Aames): Cookbook Nook Mystery Series

Sally Goldenbaum: Seaside Knitters Society Mystery Series

Hazel Holt: Mrs. Malory Mystery Series

M. Louisa Locke: Victorian San Francisco Mystery Series

Charlotte MacLeod (aka Alisa Craig): Peter Shandy Mystery Series AND Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mystery Series AND Inspector Madoc Rhys Mystery Series

Faith Martin: Hillary Greene Mystery Series (first entry Murder on the Oxford Express)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Library Lover’s Mystery Series

Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Joe Grey Cat Mystery Series

Karen Musser Nortman: Mystery Sisters Mystery Series (first entry Reunion and Revenge)

Louise Penny: Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series

Shari Randall: Lobster Shack Mystery Series

Barbara Ross: Maine Clambake Mystery Series

Paige Shelton: Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series

Karen Rose Smith: Caprice de Luca Mystery Series

Lea Wait (aka Cornelia Kidd): Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series

Ovidia Yu: Singaporean Mystery Series (first entry Aunty Lee’s Delights)

[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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