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Cozy Mystery News – January 2018

Here it is the new year – a time when I thought there would be all sorts of Cozy Mystery news, and I only have a little news to share with you. However, it’s good news!

Julie Chase (aka Jacqueline Frost and Julie Anne Lindsey) will be bringing us Cat Got Your Crown – which is the fourth Cozy in her Kitty Couture Mystery Series. This time the Furry Godmother pet boutique owner and sleuth Lacy Marie Crocker will be attending the New Orleans National Pet Pageant where a murder may take place! (Some of you may have just read the first mystery in this author’s new Christmas Tree Farm Mystery Series which she writes as Jacqueline Frost – Twelve Slays of Christmas.)

Cozy Mystery author Leslie Karst has a very varied educational background. Not only is she a twenty year attorney, but she also has a culinary degree, which is great news for fans of her Sally Solari Mystery Series. Her main sleuth is an ex-lawyer who manages an Italian eatery and the series includes recipes. Anyway, back to the good news: Sally will be back sleuthing! The third book (Death al Fresco) will be released in March AND there’s a fourth Sally Solari mystery on its way, too!

Elaine Viets is the author of several series, including the very popular Dead-End Job Mystery Series (which features sleuth Helen Hawthorne, a woman very familiar with “dead-end jobs”) and the very popular Mystery Shopper Mystery Series (featuring plain-clothes detective Josie Marcus). Here’s the good news for Elaine Viets’ fans: Elaine Viets will be releasing A Deal with the Devil and 13 Short Stories. This will be a collection which will include some of her series’ favorite characters. Good news indeed!

Do You Sometimes Find Your Cozy Tastes Change as you Age?

Lately, I’ve been revisiting some of my old favorites – you’ve probably seen the posts of the ones I’ve covered. I’ve also been trying some older series that just never “clicked” for me, for whatever reason. And sometimes the results have been a bit surprising to me.

I don’t know if it’s just that I didn’t give some older series a fair chance, but nowadays, I often find that giving something another chance that I passed on years ago will often turn out to be a surprise new favorite for me! At the same time, some of the older series that I used to really love, I’ve found myself gradually falling off of… to the point where I’m not sure if I could really recommend them to a new reader!

This isn’t usually a drastic change >>> series will either change from a slight recommendation to a “you should probably pass” sort of attitude, but more drastic swings are possible. I’m not sure if this is a change in my own personal taste, or if I’ve just seen enough of certain themes and feel like I need to “move on” from the series.

So has anyone else found that their personal taste has changed when you go back and re-evaluate a series, either for good or for ill? Please keep examples, particularly of series that you no longer can fully support, general – I don’t want this to degrade into a flame war of different series that others might still really enjoy!

New Releases – January 8 to January 14, 2018

Here is the list of new releases for January 8 to January 14!

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Many a Twist (This will be the 6th in the County Cork Mystery Series.)

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): The Hostess with the Ghostess (This will be the 9th in the Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series.)

Maddy Hunter: Say No Moor (This will be the 10th in the Passport to Peril Mystery Series.)

Sujata Massey: The Widows of Malabar Hill (This will be the 1st in the NEW Perveen Mistry Mystery Series.)

Donna Huston Murray: For Better or Worse (This will be the 8th in the Ginger Barnes Main Line Mystery Series.)

Tracy Weber: Pre-Meditated Murder (This will be the 5th in the Downward Dog Mystery Series.)

One New Cozy Holiday and One New Cozy Mystery Series Coming February 2018

February will have a bit of good news, with one new Cozy Mystery Series starting by an established site author and a holiday-themed Cozy Mystery scheduled for release.

First, the holiday release will be a Thanksgiving-themed entry in Joanne Fluke‘s Hannah Swensen Mystery Series, Raspberry Danish Murder. Hannah isn’t really looking forward to Thanksgiving, considering the recent disappearance of her new husband, Ross. Still, she’s determined to make the best of it – at least, she is until Ross’s assistant is killed in a fatal car crash, while driving Ross’s car! Was Ross the target of an attack, was this a simple accident, or was the assistant the true target? As always, this entry should include a delicious recipe for the named treat in the title!

Next up, Krista Davis will be starting the Pen & Ink Mystery Series with its debut novel, Color Me Murder. Florrie Fox is the manager of the Color Me Read bookstore in Georgetown, Washington D.C. Florrie has been offered rent-free space in prime real estate area by her boss, solely so his unpleasant relatives are unable to move in themselves and make his life less pleasant. But the deal suddenly seems less appealing when one of these relatives turns up dead behind a trap door in the bookstore. Krista Davis also writes the Domestic Diva Mystery Series and the Paws & Claws Mystery Series.

For more Thanksgiving-themed Cozies, be sure to visit the Thanksgiving Theme Page.

For these upcoming series and more be sure to check out the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page.

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