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Eight Soon to be Released Cozy Covers

EDIT: The blog has had some slight technical difficulties over the last few days >>> as you may have noticed, the comments (among other things) were broken for a while. My tech support team (meaning son and husband) had to restore a backup to get everything working, but we likely lost any comments made most of Saturday. So if you commented recently, you might want to check to make sure it wasn’t lost! Sorry about the inconvenience!

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

Rebecca Adler: Cinco De Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Taste of Texas Mystery Series.)
Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): A Magical Match (This will be the 9th in the Witchcraft 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.)
Anne Hillerman: Cave of Bones (This will be the 22nd in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mystery Series.)
Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Turning the Tide (This will be the 3rd in the Quaker Midwife Mystery Series.)
Catriona McPherson: Scot Free (This will be the 1st in the NEW Last Ditch Mystery Series.)
Denise Swanson: Tart of Darkness (This will be the 1st in the NEW Chef-to-Go Mystery Series.)

Random (Non Cozy Mystery-Related) Ideas…

homeDo any of you have a household trick – or two – you wouldn’t mind sharing? I have three, just to get us started.

1.  Those of you who have been with me for a while know I mentioned this one several years ago. Don’t throw away your children’s tiny toys from yester-year. Instead add a pretty Christmas ribbon & hang them on your Christmas tree. As your children get older, these little toy-ornaments will (probably) end up being your sentimental favorites, along with all of the ones they made for you >>> (even including the ones their teachers had them use toilet paper tubes to make!)

2. When my children were young, I would read their favorite “Golden Books” into a cassette, blowing a whistle at the end of each page to signal when they should turn the page. (Of course, this didn’t replace our nightly ritual of reading to them right before bedtime!) They would listen to the books in bed every night. [I guess now this could be done with a child’s tablet or digital voice recorder… My children (now adults) actually remember these books over the store-bought books that came with cassettes.]

3. I have also talked about this next tip before – probably lots of times. To all of you cross-stitchers, I use my regular cross-stitch patterns and add Mill Hill seed beads into the pattern. I love the added “pizzazz!”

I know this entry has absolutely nothing to do with reading Cozy Mysteries, but thought it would be fun to hear about some tips you may have.

Do any of you have “tips” you’d like to share? If so, please post a comment. Thank you!

New Releases – November 13 to November 19, 2017

Here is the list of new releases for November 13 to November 19!

David Baldacci: End Game (This will be the in the Will Robbie Mystery Series.)

Susan Bernhardt: Paradise Can Be Murder (This will be the 4th in the Kay Driscoll Mystery Series.)

Rhys Bowen: The Ghost of Christmas Past (This will be the 17th in the Molly Murphy Mystery Series. This is a Christmas mystery.)

Janet Evanovich: Hardcore Twenty-Four (This will be the 24th in the Stephanie Plum Mystery Series.)

P. D. James: Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales (This will be a collection of short stories.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Death in the Stacks (This will be the 8th in the Library Lover’s Mystery Series.)

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.

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