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Four New Holiday-Themed Cozy Mysteries Coming December 2018

December will be another really great month for holiday-themed Cozy Mysteries, with five new holiday Cozies by site authors! Unsurprisingly, most of these will be Christmas Cozies.

First up, Lorraine Bartlett and Gayle Leeson will be releasing the fifth book in Lorraine Bartlett’s Victoria Square Mystery Series, Yule Be Dead. This Christmas season will be a bit subdued at Victoria Square, as the daughter of one of the local shop owners has been discovered on the days leading up to the holidays. Katie Bonner, manager of a local collection of booths and shops, will need to sort out a number of potential suspects, including a number of the dead woman’s former romantic interests. Lorraine Bartlett writes a number of other series under various names, including the Lotus Bay Mystery Series, the Booktown Mystery Series (under the pseudonym Lorna Barrett), and the Jeff Resnick Mystery Series (under the name L. L. Bartlett), while Gayle Leeson writes the Down South Cafe Mystery Series, the Daphne Martin Cake Mystery Series and the Myrtle Crumb Mystery Series under the name Gayle Trent, and the Embroidery Mystery Series under the name Amanda Lee.

Next up, Laura Childs will be releasing the 8th in her Cackleberry Club Mystery Series, Eggs on Ice. It isn’t entirely surprising when a local curmudgeonly attorney is stabbed to death, though his that it occured during a rehearsal for a presentation of “A Christmas Carol” is a bit surprising. Suzanne, owner of the Cackleberry Club and amateur sleuth will need to hunt down the true killer, both to bring justice and to help clear her fellow owner’s soon-to-be ex-husband from the suspect list. Laura Childs also writes the Tea Shop Mystery Series and the Scrapbooking Mystery Series.

The last of the Christmas themed Cozies will be Claws for Celebration, the 3rd in Linda Reilly‘s Cat Lady Mystery Series. Lara Caphart, manager of the High Cliff Shelter for Cats, is preparing for Christmas and the town’s annual holiday cooking competition, but the celebration ends prematurely when the last-minute fill-in judge turns up dead, apparently due to one of the festive treats. Unfortunately, the primary suspect is one of Lara’s mother’s best friends, so Lara will need to find the true murderer to make sure every has a happy holiday! Linda Reilly also writes the Deep Fried Mystery Series, which stars a worker at a Fish & Chips restaurant in the Berkshires of Massachusetts.

That may be it for Christmas-themed Cozies, but there’s one more holiday release in December this year, the Halloween themed Do No Harm, the 2nd in Dawn Eastman‘s Dr. Katie LeClair Mystery Series. When an ex-con patient of Katie’s who still professes his innocence disappears and a college student investigating his previous supposed crimes turns up dead, the ex-con seems the most likely suspect, but Katie doesn’t feel comfortable jumping to that conclusion. Dawn Eastman also writes the Family Fortune Mystery Series, starring an ex-policewoman, her tarot card reading mother, and her pet psychic aunt.

If you’re interested in looking for more Christmas themed Cozies, be sure to visit the theme page on my site: Christmas Themed Cozies…

And for Halloween Cozies, be sure to visit the page for the Halloween Themed Cozies!

New Releases – November 12 to November 18, 2018

Here is the list of new releases for November 12 to November 18!

David Baldacci: Long Road to Mercy (This will be the 1st in the NEW Atlee Pine Thriller Series.)

Maia Chance: Naughty on Ice (This will be the 4th in the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery Series.)

Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): A Scandal in Scarlet (This will be the 4th in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery Series.)

Janet Evanovich: Look Alive Twenty-Five (This will be the 25th in the Stephanie Plum Mystery Series.)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Death and Daisies (This will be the 2nd in the Magic Garden Mystery Series.)

Jacqueline Frost (aka Julie Chase & Julie Anne Lindsey): ‘Twas the Knife Before Christmas (This will be the 2nd in the Christmas Tree Farm Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas mystery.)

Victoria Thompson: City of Secrets (This will be the 2nd in the Counterfeit Lady Mystery Series.)

Two New Cozy Mystery Series Coming December 2018

December will have two new Cozy Mystery Series by site authors!

First, Sarah Fox will be releasing Wine and Punishment, the first in her new Literary pub Mystery Series. Sadie Coleman is starting a new life for herself in Shady Creek, Vermont, after losing her old job in a merger and ending a relationship with a deadbeat ex. She’s bought an old pub, turning it into a spot for anyone interested in either a book club, a glass of wine, or both. But her plans might be interrupted when her ex arrives, looking to reunite – only to turn up dead instead. Fox already writes the Pancake House Mystery Series, starring Marley McKinney, a pancake house manager, and the Music Lover’s Mystery Series, starring violinist Midori Bishop.

Next, Clea Simon will be starting the Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Series, beginning with the debut novel, A Spell of Murder. Becca has suddenly become both unattached romantically and unemployed financially, and is spending her new free time to attempt to awaken her own psychic powers and become a witch. But the real power lies in her trio of cats, and their influence may quickly entangle her in more serious matters – like murder, perhaps. Clea Simon also writes the Pru Marlowe, Pet Noir Mystery Series, which stars an animal behaviorist, the Blackie and Care Mystery Series, starring cat Blackie and homeless teen Care, the Dulcie Schwartz Mystery Series, starring a grad student, and the Theda Krakow Mystery Series, starring a music writer.

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

Cozy Mystery News – November 2018

Here’s the month’s Cozy Mystery news for November, 2018! There’s a fair amount of it this month, which is always good news itself!

First, Kathleen Bridge will be writing at least two more in her By the Sea Mystery Series, extending the series about Liz Holt, worker at a family owned inn on Melbourne Beach, Florida, to at least five entries. She also writes the Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery Series, starring a former home and garden writer in the Hamptons.

 

Next, Frances Brody has released some details on A Snapshot of Murder, slated to be the 10th in the Kate Shackleton Mystery Series, starring a WWI widow in a small village in England in the 1920s. In this entry, Kate will need to go to a recently opened museum to investigate the death of one of the seven photographers who was attending the opening.

 

Vickie Fee will be starting a new mystery series, the Movie Palace Mystery Series, which will likely have at least three entries. The first entry in the series will be named My Fair Latte, and the series will star the owner of an old movie theater. Fee is already the author of the Liv and Di in Dixie Mystery Series, starring party planner Liv McKay and her best friend Di Souther, set in Dixie, Tennessee.

Next up, Victoria Gilbert will be releasing at least two more books in her Blue Ridge Library Mystery Series, which stars Amy Webber, a former university librarian now managing a public library in a historic town in Virginia. This will bring the series to five books when they are released.

 

 

Finally, Tina Kashian will be releasing two more entries in her Kebab Kitchen Mystery Series, which stars Lucy Berberian, an ex-lawyer working at a family Mediterranean restaurant on the Jersey Shore. Though the names for the books haven’t been released yet, the first will be Easter-themed, the fifth Christmas-themed, and will hopefully be released in March 2020 and October 2020 respectively.

And that’s it for this month’s Cozy Mystery news!

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