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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!

New Releases – March 5 to March 11, 2018

Here is the list of new releases for March 5 to March 11!

Susan Wittig Albert: The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover (This will be the 7th in the Darling Dahlias Mystery Series.)

Lynn Cahoon: Who Moved My Goat Cheese? (This will be the 1st in the NEW Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series.)

Laura Childs (aka Gerry Schmitt): Plum Tea Crazy (This will be the 19th in the Tea Shop Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Farewell to Felines (This will be the 15th in the Whales and Tails Mystery Series.)

Anna Lee Huber: A Brush with Shadows (This will be the 6th in the Lady Darby Mystery Series.)

Kelly Lane: Dipped to Death (This will be the 3rd in the Olive Grove Mystery Series.)

Linda Wiken (aka Erika Chase): Marinating in Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Dinner Club Mystery Series.)

April 2018 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in April 2018:

April 2018

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.)

Rebecca Adler: Cinco De Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Taste of Texas Mystery Series.)

Susan Wittig Albert: Queen Anne’s Lace (This will be the 26th in the China Bayles Herbal Mysteries Series.)

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

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): A Magical Match (This will be the 9th in the Witchcraft Mystery Series.)

Kathleen Bridge: Death by the Sea (This will be the 1st in the NEW By the Sea Mystery Series.)

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

Maia Chance : Bad Neighbors (This will be the 2nd in the Agnes and Effie Mystery Series.)

Mary Higgins Clark: I’ve Got My Eyes On You (This will be a stand-alone Thriller.)

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

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Shot in the Dark (This will be the 17th in the Coffeehouse Mystery Series.)

Mary Daheim: A Case of Bier (This will be the 31st in the Hillside Manor Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery Series.)

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

Kaitlyn Dunnett aka Kathy Lynn Emerson): Crime & Punctuation(This will be the 1st in the NEW Deadly Edits Mystery Series.)

Janet Finsilver: Murder at the Mushroom Festival (This will be the 4th in the Kelly Jackson Mystery Series.)

Martha Grimes: The Knowledge (This will be the 24th in the Richard Jury Mystery Series.)

Nell Hampton (aka Nancy Coco and Nancy J. Parra): Lord of the Pies (This will be the 2nd in the Kensington Palace Chef Mystery Series.)

Sasscer Hill: The Dark Side of Town (This will be a Stand-Alone Mystery or the first in a new series.)

Anne Hillerman: Cave of Bones (This will be the 22nd in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mystery Series.)

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

Tonya Kappes: Cold Blooded Brew (This will be the 4th in the Killer Coffee Mystery Series.)

G. M. Malliet: In Prior’s Wood (This will be the 7th in the Max Tudor Mystery Series.)

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Turning the Tide (This will be the 3rd in the Quaker Midwife Mystery Series.)

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

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Wedding Cake Crumble (This will be the 10th in the Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series.)

Catriona McPherson: Scot Free (This will be the 1st in the NEW Last Ditch Mystery Series.)

Anne Perry : Twenty-one Days (This will be the 33rd in the Pitt Mystery Series.)

Ann B. Ross: Miss Julia Raises the Roof (This will be the 20th in the Miss Julia Mystery Series.)

Paige Shelton: Lost Books and Old Bones (This will be the 3rd in the Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series.)

Denise Swanson: Tart of Darkness (This will be the 1st in the NEW Chef-to-Go Mystery Series.)

Rebecca Tope: The Staveley Suspect (This will be the 7th in the Lake District Mystery Series.)

Marty Wingate: Farewell, My Cuckoo (This will be the 4th in the Birds of a Feather Mystery Series.)

If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the March 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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