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July 2018 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in July 2018:

July 2018

Allyson K. Abbott (aka Annelise Ryan & Beth Amos): Last Call (This will be the 6th in the Mack’s Bar Mystery Series.)

Jeff Abbott: The Three Beths (This will be a stand-alone psychological thriller.)

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity and the King’s Ransom (This will be the 23rd in the Aunt Dimity Mystery Series.)

Lorna Barrett (aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorraine Bartlett) Poisoned Pages (This will be the 12th in the Booktown Mystery Series.)

Julia Buckley: Dark and Twisting Path (This will be the 3rd in the Writer’s Apprentice Mystery Series.)

V.M. Burns: Travellin’ Shoes (This will be the 1st in the NEW RJ Franklin Mystery Series.)

Lynn Cahoon: Killer Green Tomatoes (This will be the 2nd in the Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series.)

C.S. Challinor: Upstaged by Murder (This will be the 10th in the Rex Graves Mystery Series.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Murder, She Reported (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Cate Conte (aka Liz Mugavero): Purrder She Wrote (This will be the 2nd in the Cat Cafe Mystery Series.)

Maya Corrigan: S’more Murders (This will be the 5th in the Five-Ingredient Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Beaches in Paradise (This will be the 9th in the Tj Jensen Paradise Lake Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: The Halloween House (This will be the 4th in the Tess and Tilly Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Lindsey Davis: Pandora’s Boy (This will be the 6th in the Flavia Albia Mystery Series.)

Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): Death Over Easy (This will be the 5th in the Country Store Mystery Series.)

Carola Dunn: The Corpse at the Crystal Palace (This will be the 23rd in the Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series.)

Laura Durham: Wed or Alive (This will be the 9th in the Annabelle Archer Mystery Series.)

Mary Feliz: Disorderly Conduct (This will be the 4th in the Maggie McDonald Mystery Series.)

G.M. Ford: Soul Survivor (This will be the 11th in the Leo Waterman Mystery Series.)

Daryl Wood Gerber (aka Avery Aames): A Soufflé of Suspicion (This will be the 2nd in the French Bistro Mystery Series.)

Victoria Gilbert: Shelved Under Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Blue Ridge Library Mystery Series.)

Suzette A. Hill: The Cambridge Plot (This will be the 5th in the Rosy Gilchrist Mystery Series.)

Lee Hollis: Poppy Harmon Investigates (This will be the 1st in the NEW Desert Flowers Mystery Series.)

Tonya Kappes: Fishing, Forest & Forgery (This will be the 3rd in the Camper & Criminals Mystery Series.)

Leslie Langtry: Map Skills Murder (This will be the 7th in the Merry Wrath Mystery Series.)

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Italian Iced (This will be the 3rd in the Ethnic Eats Mystery Series.)

Mary Marks: Knot My Sister’s Keeper (This will be the 6th in the Martha Rose Quilting Mystery Series.)

Alyssa Maxwell: Murder at Ochre Court (This will be the 6th in the Gilded Newport Mystery Series.)

Susan McBride: Walk a Crooked Line (This will be the 2nd in the Jo Larsen Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): To Catch a Latte (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Sheri Randall: Against the Claw (This will be the 2nd in the Lobster Shack Mystery Series.)

David Rosenfelt: Rescued (This will be the 17th in the Andy Carpenter Mystery Series.)

Maggie Sefton: Dyeing Up Loose Ends (This will be the 16th in the Knitting Mystery Series.)

Clea Simon: Fear on Four Paws (This will be the 7th in the Pru Marlowe Pet Noir Mystery Series.)

Alexander McCall Smith: The Quiet Side of Passion (This will be the 12th in the non mystery Isabel Dalhousie Series.)

Rebecca Tope: Crisis in the Cotswolds (This will be the 16th in the Cotswold Mystery Series.)

Peter Tremayne: Bloodmoon (This will be the 29th in the Sister Fidelma Mystery Series.)

If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the June 2018 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 – May 2018

We’re coming to the end of May, so it’s once again time to discuss the best Cozy mysteries that we’ve read this 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 has been a good month for me in terms of time I’ve been able to spend reading, so I have two series to recommend – Kathleen Bridge’s Hampton Home & Garden Mystery Series, and Carolyn Hart’s Death on Demand Mystery Series. I’m not going to go into detail again here on why I recommend them, as I’ve already written full blog posts about each, but if you’re interested be sure to check out the entries!

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

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

Barbara Allan: Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery Series

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series

Mary Kay Andrews (aka Kathy Hogan Trocheck): The High Tide Club (not Cozy)

Cynthia Baxter: Lickety Splits Ice Cream Shoppe Mystery Series

Jessica Beck (aka Elizabeth Bright, Casey Mayes, Melissa Glazer, Chris Cavender, Tim Myers, & D.B. Morgan): Donut Shop Mystery Series

Stephanie Blackmoore: Wedding Planner Mystery Series

Bethany Blake: Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery Series

Rhys Bowen: In Farleigh Field (not Cozy)

Kathleen Bridge: Hampton Home & Garden Mystery Series AND Home by the Sea Mystery Series

Duffy Brown: Cycle Path Mystery Series AND Consignment Shop Mystery Series

Vivien Chen: Noodle Shop Mystery Series

Laura Childs: Tea Shop Mystery Series AND Scrapbooking Mystery Series AND Cackleberry Club Mystery Series

Jane K. Cleland: Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series

Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Coffeehouse Mystery Series

Edmund Crispin: Gervase Fen Mystery Series

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Penny Brannigan Mystery Series

Kate Dyer-Seeley (aka Ellie Alexander): Rose City Mystery Series AND By the Sea Mystery Series

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

Agatha Frost: Peridale Cafe Mystery Series

Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swensen Mystery Series

Nell Hampton (aka Nancy Coco and Nancy J. Parra): Kensington Palace Chef Mystery Series

Carolyn Hart: Death on Demand Mystery Series

Mary Ellen Hughes: Keepsake Cove Mystery Series

Miranda James (aka Dean James,  Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Honor Hartman): Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series

Libby Kirsch: Stella Reynolds Mystery Series (first entry The Big Lead)

Gayle Leeson (aka Gayle Trent & Amanda Lee): Down South Cafe Mystery Series

Mary Marks: Martha Rose Quilting Mystery Series

Shawn McGuire: Whispering Pines Mystery Series (first entry Family Secrets)

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

Lynne Murray: Josephine Fuller Mystery Series

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

Dell Shannon (aka Leslie Egan, Elizabeth Linington, & Anne Blaisdell): Luiz Mendosa Series

Dorothy Simpson: Inspector Thanet Series

Victoria Thompson: Gaslight Mystery Series

Sigrid Vansandt: Marsden-Lacey Cozy Mystery Series (first entry Two Birds With One Stone)

Debbie Young: Sophie Sayers Village Mystery Series (first entry Best Murder in Show)

[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.

New Releases – May 28 to June 3, 2018

Here is the list of new releases for May 28 to June 3!

Susan M. Boyer: Lowcountry Bookshop (This will be the 7th in the Liz Talbot Mystery Series.)

Rita Mae Brown: Probable Claws (This will be the 27th in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series.)

Fiona Buckley: The Reluctant Assassin (This will be the 15th in the Ursula Blanchard Elizabethan Mystery Series.)

Kathy Daley: Finding Answers (This will be the 2nd in the Rescue Alaska Mystery Series.)

Jeanne M. Dams: Crisis at the Cathedral (This will be the 20th in the Dorothy Martin Mystery Series.)

Krista Davis: The Diva Cooks Up a Storm (This will be the 11th in the Domestic Diva Mystery Series.)

Tessa Harris: The Angel Makers (This will be the 2nd in the Constance Piper Mystery Series.)

Karen MacInerney: Claws for Alarm (This will be the 8th in the Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series.)

Meg Macy (aka 1/2 D.E. Ireland): Bear Witness to Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Teddy Bear Mystery Series.) (This is an Oktobear Fest mystery.)

Rose Pressey: A Passion for Haunted Fashion (This will be the 6th in the Haunted Vintage Mystery Series.)

Karen Rose Smith: Murder with Cinnamon Scones (This will be the 2nd in the Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery Series.)

Four New to the Site Cozy Mystery Authors

I’ve decided it’s time to once again add authors to the site, which I usually do in batches of four – not sure why! I just do. As always, these were mostly recommended to me by site users.

Vivien Chien grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where she still lives, working on her Cozy Mystery Series, the Noodle Shop Mystery Series, which stars Lana Lee, a waitress working at her family’s noodle restaurant.

 

 

 Devon Delaney is a lifelong resident of the American Northeast, and has competed in cooking competitions. Her Cozy Mystery Series is the Cook-Off Mystery Series, starring Sherry Frazelle, a cooking contestant living in a small town in Connecticut.

 

 

 A former English professor who plays blues guitar, Peggy Ehrhart holds a doctorate in Medieval Literature, and has published non-fiction work on that subject. She writes the Maxx Maxwell Mystery Series, starring a blues-singer sleuth, as well as the Knit & Nibble Mystery Series, starring the associate editor of a crafting magazine.

 

 Kirsten Weiss has lived a significant portion of her life overseas, spending nearly fourteen years in the fringes of the former USSR and Southeast Asia. She now lives in San Mateo, California. She is the author of the Pie Town Mystery Series, the Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Mystery Series, the Doyle Mystery Series, and the Witches of Doyle Mystery Series.

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