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Three Holiday Themed Cozy Mysteries Coming June 2018

June looks like it will be a good month for holiday themed Cozies, with three new releases – with one each of Christmas, Fourth of July, and Halloween mysteries!

First, Leslie Budewitz will be releasing As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles, which will be a Christmas themed mystery and the 5th in the Food Lovers’ Village Mystery Series. Erin Murphy is preparing for the holiday season, and has a new friend in the form of a young woman with a checkered past who had managed to turn her life around. But it seems that her past has caught up to her, as Erin’s new friend is found dead, Christmas lights around her neck. Leslie Budewitz also writes the Spice Shop Mystery Series.

Next up, Lynn Cahoon will be releasing a Fourth of July themed, novella length mystery as the 9th entry in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series entitled Rockets’ Dead Glare. South Cove is preparing for their annual Fourth of July fireworks displays, but the new volunteer fire chief is pressing for harder fire codes. When he dies in a training exercise, coffee and bookshop owner Jill Gardner feels that the work related accident might actually be murder. Lynn Cahoon also writes the Cat Latimer Mystery Series and the Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series.

Finally, Eva Gates will be releasing The Spook in the Stacks, a Halloween themed mystery and the 4th in her Lighthouse Library Mystery Series. Librarian Lucy Richardson has stumbled on yet another body, this time while the library is holding a lecture on ghostly legends in its rare books section. Eva Gates also writes as Vicki Delany, under which she has written the Year-Round Christmas Mystery Series, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery Series, the Ashley Grant Mystery Series, the Ray Robertson Mystery Series, the Constable Molly Smith Mystery Series, and the Klondike Mystery Series.

For more holiday-themed Cozies, be sure to check the relevant theme pages:

Christmas Holiday Cozy Mysteries

Fourth of July Holiday Cozy Mysteries

Halloween Holiday Cozy Mysteries

Two New Cozy Series Coming June 2018

June will have two great looking new Cozy series starting.

First, Sheila Connolly‘s Murder at the Mansion, the first novel in her Victorian Village Mystery Series. Kate Hamilton is between jobs at the moment, having been laid off from her a position at a high-end hotel in Baltimore when the hotel was acquired by a chain, when she is asked back to her small hometown of Asheford, Maryland, by her old high school best friend. Agreeing to help keep the town from going bankrupt by encouraging tourism for nearby Civil War battle sites, but the plans go awry when Kate’s high school nemesis turns up dead at the potential hotel site. Sheila Connolly also writes the Orchard Mystery Series, the Museum Mystery Series, the County Cork Mystery Series, and the Relatively Dead Mystery Series, as well as the Glassblowing Mystery Series under the name Sarah Atwell.

The other new series will be Nora Page‘s Bookmobile Mystery Series, which will begin with Better Off Read. Senior citizen librarian Cleo Watkins finds her position threatened when a young mayor begins plans to shut down her library in small town Catalpa Springs, Georgia, when storm damage makes it less viable to repair than replace. However, her campaign to save the library is interrupted with the sudden death of a major benefactor – who happened to have recently requested a number of books on how to get away with murder. What’s worse, Cleo’s best friend seems to be implicated in the benefactor’s death. Nora Page has also written (under the pen name Ann Myers) the Santa Fe Cafe Mystery Series.

For more upcoming Cozy Mystery series, be sure to visit the  Soon to be Released Mysteries or the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page on the site.

June 2018 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in June 2018:

June 2018

Ellie Alexander (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley): Till Death Do Us Tart (This will be the 8th in the Bakeshop Mystery Series.)

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

Laurien Berenson: Ruff Justice (This will be the 22nd in the Melanie Travis Mystery Series.)

Sandra Bretting: Death Comes to Dogwood Manor (This will be the 4th in the Missy DuBois Mystery Series.)

Leslie Budewitz: As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles (This will be the in the Food Lovers’ Village Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Lynn Cahoon: Rockets’ Dead Glare (This will be a novella in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series – after book #9) (This is a Fourth of July themed mystery.)

Kate Carlisle: Buried in Books (This will be the 13th in the Bibliophile Mystery Series.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Bought the Farm (This will be the 3rd in the Farmer’s Daughter Mystery Series.)

Nancy J. Cohen: Hairball Hijinks (This will be a short story in the Bad Hair Day Mystery Series.)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Murder at the Mansion (This will be the 1st in the NEW Victorian Village Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Firework Fiasco (This will be the 29th in the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series.) (This is a Fourth of July themed mystery.)

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

Leighann Dobbs: Never Say Pie (This will be the 14th in the Lexy Baker Mystery Series.)

J.C. Eaton: Staged 4 Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Sophie Kimball Mystery Series.)

Eva Gates (aka Vicki Delany): The Spook in the Stacks (This will be the 4th in the Lighthouse Library Mystery Series.)

Lena Gregory: Murder Made to Order (This will be the 2nd in the All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery Series.)

Leigh Hearon: Runaway Murder (This will be the 4th in the Carson Stables Mystery Series.)

Victoria Houston: Dead Firefly (This will be the 18th in the Loon Lake Mystery Series.)

Cordelia Kidd (aka Lea Wait): Death and a Pot of Chowder (This will be the 1st in the NEW Maine Mystery Series.)

Laurie R. King: Island of the Mad (This will be the 15th in the Mary Russell Mystery Series.)

Lois Lavrissa: Killing with Kings (This will be the 4th in the Chubby Chicks Club Mystery Series.)

Edward Marston (aka Keith Miles and Conrad Allen): Fugitive From the Grave (This will be the 4th in the Bow Street Mystery Series.)

Nora Page (aka Amy Myers): Better Off Read (This will be the 1st in the NEW Bookmobile Mystery Series.)

Linda Reilly: Claws of Death (This will be the 2nd in the Cat Lady Mystery Series.)

Sarah Strohmeyer: Bubbles Reboots (This will be the 7th in the Bubbles Yablonsky Mystery Series.)

Susan Y. Tanner: Turning for Trouble (This will be the 7th in the Familiar Legacy Mystery Series.)

Maggie Toussaint: Confound It (This will be the 5th in the Dreamwalker Mystery Series.)

Elaine Viets: Ice Blonde (This will be a novella in the Angela Richman, Death Investigator Mystery Series.)

If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the May 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.)

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