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One New Cozy Holiday and Two New Cozy Mystery Series Coming December 2017

Well, December will be a bit light on both new Cozy Holiday books and new Cozy Mystery Series, so I’ll be covering both in this post. We’ll have one holiday release, a Fall themed release, and two new series.

First, Nancy Haddock will be putting out A Crime of Poison, the third in her Silver Six Crafting Mystery Series. This Fall-themed release will center around Lilyvale’s Fall Folk Art Festival and Bake Sale, an event Nixy of the Silver Six is looking forward to as a craft store she runs. When a local troublemaker is found dead and a plate of snickerdoodles from the bake sale may be involved, Nixy and the rest of the Silver Six will need to solve the crime so the event doesn’t end with this tragedy.

Next, Nancy J. Parra will be starting the Wine Country Mystery Series, with the first entry A Case of Syrah, Syrah. Taylor O’Brien, founder of Taylor’s Off The Beaten Path Wine Tours, intends to tour small groups in Sonoma County, California. Unfortunately, her plans might come to nothing when the leader of her first tour group is found dead, killed by one of Taylor’s corkscrews. Parra also writes the Baker’s Treat Mystery Series, the Perfect Proposals Mystery Series, (as Nancy Coco) the Candy-Coated Mystery Series, and (as Nell Hampton) the Kensington Palace Chef Mystery Series.

Finally, Karen Rose Smith will be releasing Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes, the first in the Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery Series. Between her Aunt Iris and her two teenaged children, widow Daisy Swanson has a lot to protect. So she’s naturally upset when Aunt Iris starts dating a wealthy man who is still married, especially when it sounds like the man’s children and soon-to-be-ex-wife might get cut out of the will in favor of her aunt. When the wealthy man turns up dead, Daisy’s Aunt Iris turns out to be a prime suspect, and Daisy will need to work hard to keep her from ending up taking the fall for a crime Daisy is sure she didn’t commit. Karen Rose Smith also writes the Caprice de Luca Mystery Series, starring a home stager in Quiet Kismet, Pennsylvania.

For more Fall themed Cozies, visit the Fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving Cozies Theme page.

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

How Early Do You Start Your Winter Holiday Reading?

WinterIt is particularly difficult for me to believe we are now in the midst of our winter holidays! I am sitting here writing this entry while looking out on our green lawn. There is absolutely no evidence of this being November! It is currently 82° here in San Antonio, and we’re expecting a high of 89° today. (I’m pre-writing this entry, so the temperature may be a little different on the day I post this.) For this reason, I have been devoting all of my reading time to Cozy Mystery holiday books, with hopes there will be snow in the books’ forecasts!

I mentioned in a September entry (Have You Ever Missed an Entry in a Cozy Mystery Series You Love?) that I was very surprised when my daughter pointed out that I had missed reading one of my very favorite authors’ Cozies. Well, I have made myself wait (and wait!) to read Edie Claire’s Never Mess with Mistletoe. It has been difficult, but I was determined to wait until the Christmas holiday season to read it.

Last week, the day after Halloween, I noticed they started putting up the Christmas tree at my local shopping center. I hadn’t even finished the Halloween Cozy I was reading! Then, when I went to Michael’s, they had the entire store decked out for the holidays and they were already playing their Christmas music loop. All of this sort of pushed my holiday reading schedule up a notch! Long story short, I absolutely couldn’t wait, and I’m currently reading Never Mess with Mistletoe… even before Thanksgiving!

I can’t be the only one who has skipped Thanksgiving and is already reading Christmas themed Cozies. There must be more Cozy Mystery readers who are as impatient as I am.

So,  my question to you ALL is this: If you save your winter holiday Cozies until their appropriate seasons, how early do you start reading them?

PS: Normally I try to respond to all comments, but in this case I may not answer all of them >>>> as I have already stated when I started and a lot of the responses to your own answers would be of the “oh I see, that’s very interesting!” variety.

Cozy Mystery News – November 2017

I wasn’t quite sure if I would have any Cozy Mystery news to tell you about, but it seems I do! And it involves some very big names in the Cozy Mystery genre!

First for some very sad news. Donald Bain passed away last month. He brought so many hours of reading pleasure to a lot of us – as we followed Jessica Fletcher’s crime-solving adventures in the Murder, She Wrote book series.

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Rhys Bowen just released On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service, the 11th book in her Royal Spyness Mystery Series – in August. (The 12th in the series will be released in August 2018.) Here’s the great news: Rhys Bowen has just signed to write books 13, 14, & 15. Georgie is in no danger of not having more mysteries to solve. Hmmm… that doesn’t mean she will definitely not be in danger! (Here’s the link to Rhys Bowen‘s page on my Cozy Mystery site.)

It appears like Mollie Cox Bryan will be (possibly) starting a new Cozy Mystery series with the release of The Jean Harlow Bombshell. A lot of us are fans of her Cora Craft Mystery Series as well as her (scrapbooking) Cumberland Creek Mystery Series, so this is really good news! (To see Mollie Cox Bryan‘s page on my site, click on her highlighted name.)

 

It seems like it’s been a long time since JoAnna Carl (aka Eve K. Sandstrom) released her 16th Chocoholic Mystery Series book – The Chocolate Bunny Brouhaha. (I just checked, and since it was an Easter Cozy, some of us didn’t read it until April of this year!) Anyway, getting back to the really terrific news, JoAnna Carl got the go-ahead for two more Chocoholic mysteries! (To visit JoAnna Carl‘s page on my site, click on the link.)

Diesel and Charlie will busy, busy, busy solving crimes! Miranda James  (aka Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Dean James) has just been given the green light to write four more mysteries in the Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series. I know there are a lot of us who read this New York Times bestselling series. I know this is great news, and I feel a little greedy about admitting this, but I hope we get some similar news about Miranda James’s Southern Ladies Mystery Series! (Here’s the link to the Miranda James page on my site.)

And finally, only because I do these news tidbits alphabetically, Victoria Thompson will be continuing her new Counterfeit Lady Mystery Series after the November 2017 release of City of Lies. Victoria Thompson has signed on to release City of Secrets, which is terrific news for those of us who are fans of her Gaslight Mystery Series. (Click here if you would like to visit Victoria Thompson‘s page on my Cozy Mystery site.)

Was I correct in saying there were some really big names in the Cozy Mystery genre in the Cozy Mystery News for November 2017?!

New Releases – November 6 to November 12, 2017

Here is the list of new releases for November 6 to November 12! (Very busy week…)

Kristi Abbott: Assault and Buttery (This will be the 3rd in the Popcorn Shop Mystery Series.)

Kate Carlisle: Eaves of Destruction (This will be the 5th in the Fixer-Upper Mystery Series.)

Bailey Cates (aka Cricket McRae & Bailey Cattrell): Potions and Pastries (This will be the 7th in the Magical Bakery Mystery Series.)

Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke: Every Breath You Take (This will be the 5th in the Under Suspicion Mystery Series.)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): A Late Frost (This will be the 11th in the Orchard Mystery Series. This is a “WinterFare” mystery.)

Ellen Crosby: The Vineyard Victims (This will be the 8th in the Wine Country Mystery Series.)

Krista Davis: Not a Creature Was Purring (This will be the 5th in the Paws & Claws Mystery Series. This is a Christmas mystery.)

Julianna Deering: Death at Thorburn Hall (This will be the 6th in the Drew Farthering Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Much Ado about Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery Series.)

Sarah Fox : Of Spice and Men (This will be the 3rd in the Pancake House Mystery Series.)

Daryl Wood Gerber (aka Avery Aames): A Deadly Éclair (This will be the 1st in the NEW French Bistro Mystery Series.)

Mary Ellen Hughes: A Fatal Collection (This will be the 1st in the NEW Keepsake Cove Mystery Series.)

Maureen Jennings: Let Darkness Bury the Dead (This will be the 8th in the Murdoch Mystery Series)

Sharon Pape: That Olde White Magick (This will be the 2nd in the Abracadabra Mystery Series.)

Anne Perry: A Christmas Return (This will be the 15th in the Christmas Mystery Series.)

Patricia Smiley: Outside the Wire (This will be a Stand Alone Novel.)

Alexander McCall Smith: The House of Unexpected Sisters (This will be the 18th in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Mystery Series.)

Wendy Corsi Staub: Dead of Winter (This will be the in the Lily Dale Mystery Series.)

Lane Stone: Stay Calm and Collie On (This will be the 3rd in the Pet Palace Mystery Series.)

Victoria Thompson: City of Lies (This will be the 1st in the NEW Counterfeit Lady Mystery Series.)

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