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New Releases – March 12 to March 18, 2018

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

Tessa Arlen: Death of an Unsung Hero (This will be the 4th in the Lady Montfort Mystery Series.)

Duffy Brown: Lethal in Old Lace (This will be the 6th in the Consignment Shop Mystery Series.)

Parnell Hall: The Purloined Puzzle (This will be the 19th in the Puzzle Lady Mystery Series.)

Nancy Herriman: Searcher of the Dead (This will be the 1st in the NEW Bess Ellyott Mystery Series.)

Tonya Kappes: Six Feet Under (This will be the 4th in the Kenni Lowry Mystery Series.)

Leslie Karst: Death al Fresco (This will be the 3rd in the Sally Solari Culinary Mystery Series.)

Dorothy St. James: Playing With Bonbon Fire (This will be the 2nd in the Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery Series.)

Eight Soon to be Released Cozy Mystery Covers

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

Allyson K. Abbott (aka Annelise Ryan & Beth Amos): Last Call (This will be the 6th in the Mack’s Bar Mystery Series.)
Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Murder, She Reported (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)
Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): Death Over Easy (This will be the 5th in the Country Store Mystery Series.)
Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Flowers and Foul Play (This will be the 1st in the NEW Magic Garden Mystery Series.)
Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Premeditated Peppermint (This will be the 3rd in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series. This is a Christmas themed mystery.)
Carolyn Haines: A Gift of Bones (This will be the 19th in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)
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.)

 

Three New Cozy Mystery Series Coming April 2018

There will be three new Cozy Mystery Series starting in April 2018!

First up, Kathleen Bridge will be releasing Death by the Sea, the first in her By the Sea Mystery Series. Liz Holt is returning from New York City to her hometown of Melbourne Beach, Florida, to help run her family-owned hotel, the Indialantic by the Sea. A historic local landmark, the hundred-year old hotel is kept afloat in part by merchandise and in part by rich benefactors – but when one turns up dead, the hotel’s future may be in peril if the culprit can’t be found! Kathleen Bridge also writes the Hamptons Home & Gardens Mystery Series, starring a former home and gardens writer turned interior designer.

Next, Catriona McPherson will be starting the Last Ditch Mystery Series with Scot Free, which will introduce us to Lexy Campbell, a Scotland native planning to return home after her life in California and her marriage counseling business fell apart. But when her last client is accused of killing her husband with fireworks, she decides that she’ll need to stay in town long enough to convince the police that they can’t possibly have the right culprit. Catriona McPherson also writes the Dandy Gilver Mystery Series, starring an aristocrat in 1920s Scotland.

Finally, Denise Swanson will be releasing Tart of Darkness, the first entry in her Chef-to-Go Mystery Series. Dani’s career seems to be going nowhere when she unexpectedly inherits a large old house in a college town. Seeing this as a sign, she decides to take this as a chance to start again, this time pursuing her passion of cooking by opening Chef-to-Go, a service providing ready-made meals to college students. She also rents out some of the rooms in the house – which leads to trouble when a relative of a boarder is murdered! Denise Swanson also writes the Scumble River Mystery Series, starring a psychologist in Illinois, and the Deveraux’s Dime Store Mystery Series, starring the owner of a five-and-dime store in Missouri.

For more upcoming Cozy Mystery series, be sure to visit the  Soon to be Released Mysteries on the site.

Cozy Mystery News – March 2018

It’s March already! And as always, time marches on, bringing us Cozy Mystery News, both good and (unfortunately this month) bad!

Anyway, here’s the Cozy Mystery News for March 2018:

Unfortunately, I have to lead off this month’s news with a very sad piece of news. Bill Crider, the author of multiple Cozy Mystery series, most notably the Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery Series that has been ongoing for over thirty years, passed away on February 12, 2018. He passed away in Alvin, Texas, where he served for a number of years as the Chair of the Division of English and Fine Arts at Alvin Community College.

On to more cheerful news… Linda Fairstein may not be a Cozy Mystery author, but she is a wildly successful mystery author and I know that she has quite a strong following here. So I’m glad to be able to tell you all that she has been given the go-ahead to continue her Alexandra Cooper Thriller Series for (at least!) another two entries, tentatively slated for release in early 2019 and 2020! She’s also the author of the Devlin Quick Mystery Series, which is a mystery series aimed at middle school readers. (I’m pretty sure both my children would have loved to read about Devlin’s sleuthing escapades!)

 Ellen Hart, author of the Jane Lawless Mystery Series (one of the longer-running Cozy Mystery series) – starring a restaurateur in Minneapolis, has been given the green light to continue writing (at least!) another two entries in the series. Ellen also writes the Sophie Greenway Mystery Series, starring an editor and food critic in Minneapolis. (Unsurprisingly considering both of her series are set in Minneapolis, she lives in Minnesota!)

Finally, Annelise Ryan (aka Allyson K. Abbott & Beth Amos) has been asked to not only write two more entries in her Mattie Winston Mystery Series (starring a deputy coroner in Wisconsin), but also to write two books in a spin-off series featuring a hospital social worker. Annelise also writes (as Allyson K. Abbott) the Mack’s Bar Mystery Series, starring a bar owner in Milwaukee.

That’s the Cozy Mystery News for March 2018. I know this one is a mixed bag, but I hope you can find some good news to outweigh the bad!

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