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Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – April 2018

April is winding down, so now is the time to talk about our favorite Cozy Mysteries that we read in the last month.

Unfortunately, this has been another bad month for me in terms of reading – I haven’t had time to read any Cozies for me to recommend this month.

As always, you can go to the Most Popular & Recommended Cozy Mystery Series page on my Cozy-Mystery site for my full write-ups on each of these great Cozy series.

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

Susan Wittig Albert: China Bayles Herbal Mystery Series

Lucy Arlington (co-written by Jennifer Stanley & Sylvia May): A Novel Idea Mystery Series

Lorna Barrett (aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorraine Bartlett): Booktown Mystery Series

Cynthia Baxter: Lickety Splits Ice Cream Shoppe Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton: Hamish MacBeth Mystery Series

Lillian Bell: A Funeral Parlor Mystery Series (first entry A Grave Issue)

Juliet Blackwell  (aka Hailey Lind): Witchcraft Mystery Series

Duffy Brown: Consignment Shop Mystery Series

Julia Buckley: Writer’s Apprentice Mystery Series

Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli (aka Elizabeth Lee): Little Library Mystery Series

Lynn Cahoon: Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series

Bailey Cates (aka Bailey Cattrell & Cricket McRae): Magical Bakery Mystery Series

Becky Clark: Mystery Writer’s Mystery Series (first entry Fiction Can Be Murder)

Jane K. Cleland: Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Cranberry Cove Mystery Series

Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series

Cate Conte (aka Liz Mugavero): Cat Cafe Mystery Series

Kathi Daley: Zoe Donovan Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Pen & Ink Mystery Series

Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery Series

Jana DeLeon: Miss Fortune Mystery Series

Alex Erickson: Bookstore Cafe Mystery Series (first entry Death by Coffee)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Magical Bookshop Mystery Series

Sarah Graves: Death by Chocolate Mystery Series

Tarquin Hall: Files of Vish Piru Mystery Series

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

Betty Hechtman: Crochet Mystery Series

Nancy Herriman: Mystery of Old San Francisco Mystery Series

Miranda James (aka Dean James,  Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Honor Hartman): Southern Ladies Mystery Series

Sofie Kelly  (aka Sofie Ryan & Darlene Ryan for Young Adult): Magical Cats Mystery Series

G. M. Malliet: Max Tudor Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series

Carlene O’Connor: Irish Village Mystery Series

Anne Perry: Pitt Mystery Series

Deanna Raybourn: Veronica Speedwell Mystery Series

Dorothy St. James: Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery Series

Sarah Shankman: Samantha Adams Mystery Series

Paige Shelton: Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series

Denise Swanson: Chef-to-Go Mystery Series

T.C. LoTempio: Nick and Nora Mystery Series

Linda Wiken (aka Erika Chase): Dinner Club Mystery Series

Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series

Debbie Young: Sophie Sayles 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.

Four New to the Site Cozy Mystery Authors

It’s been a few months since I added new authors to the site, so here are four more! As always, these were mostly recommended to me by site users.

Lena Gregory lives on Long Island in New York. She is the author of the Bay Island Psychic Mystery Series, starring an ex-psychiatrist who owns a psychic shop on Bay Island, New York, and the All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery Series, starring a diner owner in Florida.

 

 

Tina Kashian is an attorney and former mechanical engineer, and has worked in diverse roles such as patent attorney and New Jersey Deputy Attorney General. She grew up in New Jersey. She is the author of the Kebab Kitchen Mystery Series, starring an ex-lawyer who works at a family Mediterranean restaurant on the Jersey shore.

 

 Mary Miley has lived in Virginia most of her adult life after a childhood moving around as a child in an army family. She has a Bachelors and Masters in History from the College of William and Mary ahd has taught history and museum studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has written a wide variety of material besides mysteries, including numerous nonfiction books and magazine articles, most under her actual name, Mary Miley Theobald. Her Cozy Mystery series is the Roaring Twenties Mystery Series, starring an ex-Vaudeville actress and silent film actress in 1920s Hollywood.

 Shari Randall is a native New Englander living in Connecticut. She is a military wife and a librarian. She writes the Lobster Shack Mystery Series, starring an ex-ballet dancer working at a relative’s lobster shack in Connecticut.

New Releases – April 23 to April 29, 2018

Here is the list of new releases for April 23 to April 29!

Ellery Adams (aka J. B. Stanley, Jennifer Stanley, & 1/2 of Lucy Arlington): Murder in the Locked Library (This will be the 4th in the Book Retreat Mystery Series.)

Barbara Allan: Antiques Wanted (This will be the 12th in the Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery Series.)

V.M. Burns: Read Herring Hunt (This will be the 2nd in the Samantha Washington Bookshop Mystery Series.)

Jane K. Cleland: Antique Blues (This will be the 12th in the Josie Prescott Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth J. Duncan: The Marmalade Murders (This will be the 9th in the Penny Brannigan Mystery Series.)

Lee Hollis: Death of a Cookbook Author (This will be the 10th in the Hayley Powell Mystery Series.)

Leslie Langtry: Motto for Murder (This will be the 6th in the Merry Wrath Mystery Series.)

G. A. McKevett: Hide and Sneak (This will be the 23rd in the Savannah Reid Mystery Series.)

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