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Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – August 2018

August is coming to an end, so it’s time to discuss our favorite Cozy Mysteries that we’ve read over the course of 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! This month, I read Lynn Cahoon‘s Tourist Trap Mystery Series. If you want to know why I recommend that series, be sure to check out the blog entry I wrote on it!

So, what have you been reading that you can recommend in August? 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 August2018 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:

Mildred Abbott: Cozy Corgi Mystery Series (first entry Cruel Candy)

Ellery Adams (aka J. B. Stanley, Jennifer Stanley, & 1/2 of Lucy Arlington): The Supper Club Mystery Series

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series

Christy Barritt: Squeaky Clean Mystery Series

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

Laurien Berenson: Melanie Travis Mystery Series

Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber): Wishcraft Mystery Series

Rhys Bowen: Royal Spyness Mystery Series

Julia Buckley: Writer’s Apprentice Mystery Series

Leslie Budewitz: Food Lovers’ Village Mystery Series

Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib): Key West Food Critic Mystery Series

Lynn Cahoon: Tourist Trap Mystery Series AND Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series

Kate Carlisle: Bibliophile Mystery Series

Andrea Carter: Inishowen Mystery Series (first entry Death at Whitewater Church)

Bailey Cattrell (aka Bailey Cates  & Cricket McRae): Enchanted Garden Mystery Series

Chris Cavender (aka Tim Myers, Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, Casey Myers, Jessica Beck, & D.B. Morgan): Pizza Lover’s Mystery Series

Vivien Chien: Noodle Shop Mystery Series

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

Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series

Hy Conrad: Mr. Monk Mystery Series

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Agent to the Paws Mystery Series

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Coffeehouse Mystery Series

Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Domestic Diva Mystery Series

Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): Country Store Mystery Series

Connie di Marco (aka Connie Archer): Zodiac Mystery Series

Carole Nelson Douglas: Midnight Louie & Temple Barr Mystery Series

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Penny Brannigan Mystery Series

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series

Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swensen Mystery Series

Dianne Freeman: Countess of Harleigh Mystery Series (first entry A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder)

Lee Goldberg: Mr. Monk Mystery Series

Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delaney Series

Lee Hollis: Desert Flowers Mystery Series

Abigail Keam: Josiah Reynolds, Beekeeper Mystery Series

Libby Klein: Poppy McAllister Mystery Series (first entry Class Reunions Are Murder)

Kathy Krevat (aka Kathy Aarons): Gourmet Cat Mystery Series

Amanda Lee (aka Gayle Trent & Gayle Leeson): Embroidery Mystery Series

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Ethnic Eats Mystery Series

Molly MacRae: Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery Series

Olivia Matthews: Sister Lou Mystery Series (first entry Mayhem & Mass)

G. A. McKevett: Savannah Reid Mystery Series

Julie Mulhern: Country Club Murders (first entry The Deep End)

Nora Page (aka Ann Myers): Bookmobile Mystery Series

Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael Mystery Series

Shari Randall: Lobster Shack Mystery Series

Paige Shelton: Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series

Kay Dew Shostak: Chancey Books Mystery Series (first entry Next Stop, Chancey)

Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe Mystery Series

Lea Wait (aka Cornelia Kidd): Mainely Needlepoint 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.

Four New to the Site Cozy Mystery Authors

It’s time once again add authors to the site! As always, these were mostly recommended to me by site users.

Vivian Conroy is the author of the Country Gift Shop Mystery Series in Maine, the Merula and Raven Mystery Series starring a zoologist in Victorian London, the Lady Alkmene Callender Mystery Series starring a British aristocrat and reporter in the 1920s, the Cornish Castle Mystery Series starring a worker at a castle in Cornwall, and the upcoming Stationary Shop Mystery Series starring a stationary shop owner in Montana.

Alexia Gordon is a medical doctor who was raised in the American east, and has lived in various areas of the United States from the southeast to the southwest to the northeast, to three years in Alaska. She is the author of the Gethsemane Brown Mystery Series, starring an African American classical musician in Ireland.

 

Cynthia Kuhn is a teacher of literature, writing, and film at Metropolitan State University of Denver and the president of the Colorado branch of Sisters in Crime. Originally from New York, she now lives in Denver. She is the author of the Lila Maclean Academic Mystery Series, starring an English professor in Colorado.

 

Lisa Q. Mathews has had a wide and varied set of careers, having been an editor, a lifeguard, and a figure skating professional. She is a native New Englander, and has lived in many locations across the United States but now lives in New Hampshire. She is the author of the Ladies Smythe & Westin Mystery Series, starring a retirement community resident and one of the employees of the community.

New Releases – August 27 to September 2, 2018

Here is the list of new releases for August 27 to September 2!

Ginger Bolton (aka Janet Bolin): Goodbye Cruller World (This will be the 2nd in the Deputy Donut Mystery Series.)

Simon Brett: A Deadly Habit (This will be the 20th in the Charles Paris Mystery Series.)

Nancy Bush: Jealousy (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Bailey Cattrell (aka Bailey Cates & Cricket McRae): Marigolds for Malice (This will be the in the Enchanted Garden Mystery Series.)

Vivien Chien: Dim Sum of All Fears (This will be the 2nd in the Noodle Shop Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Henderson House (This will be the 3oth in the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series.)

Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Blue Water Hues (This will be the 2nd in the Ashley Grant Mystery Series.)

Peggy Ehrhart: Died in the Wool (This will be the 2nd in the Knit & Nibble Mystery Series.)

Cheryl Hollon: Shattered at Sea (This will be the 5th in the Webb’s Glass Shop Mystery Series.)

Tina Kashian: Stabbed in the Baklava (This will be the 2nd in the Kebab Kitchen Mystery Series.)

Faye Kellerman: Walking Shadows (This will be the 25th in the Decker & Lazarus Mystery Series.)

Leslie Meier: Halloween Murder (This contains Trick or Treat Murder (book #3) & Wicked Witch Murder (book #16) of the Lucy Stone Mystery Series.) (These are Halloween themed mysteries.)

Lane Stone: Support Your Local Pug (This will be the 2nd in the Pet Palace Mystery Series.)

Kirsten Weiss: Witch (This will be the 4th in the Witches of Doyle Mystery Series.)

Eight Soon to be Released Cozy Mystery Covers

Here are some of the upcoming Cozy Mystery covers that I’ve found recently!

Ellie Alexander (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley): Live and Let Pie (This will be the 9th in the Bakeshop Mystery Series.)
Lynn Cahoon: Santa Puppy (This will be a novella in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)
Mary Daheim: Bitter Alpine (This will be the 28th in the Emma Lord Mystery Series.)
Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Murders and Metaphors (This will be the 3rd in the Magical Bookshop Mystery Series.)
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.)
Diane Kelly: Dead as a Door Knocker (This will be the 1st in the NEW House-Flipper Mystery Series.)
Clea Simon: A Spell of Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW Witch Cats of Cambridge Mystery Series.)
Alexander McCall Smith: The Colors of All the Cattle (This will be the 19th in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Mystery Series.)
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