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Cozy Mystery News – August 2017 – Part 1

I have several Cozy Mystery newsy tidbits that I want to tell you all about, so I’m going to post the second part of this Cozy Mystery News entry tomorrow. (Good grief, it’s been a while since I did this!) Let’s see, I think I’ll do this alphabetically >>> starting right now:

Stephanie Blackmoore (previously a lawyer and, even a librarian!) will be releasing Gown with the Wind – a new book in her Wedding Planner Mystery Series. This time, wedding planner Mallory Shepard will have a surprising client…

Ali Brandon will be starting the new Tarot Cat Mystery Series. That’s right, this will be in addition to her Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series. The Tarot Cat series will be set in a santería shop in Florida. (According to Dictionary.com, a santeria is: “a religion merging the worship of Yoruba deities with veneration of Roman Catholic saints: practiced in Cuba and spread to other parts of the Caribbean and to the U.S. by Cuban emigrés.”) As Diane A.S. Stuckart, she writes the Leonardo da Vinci Historical Mystery Series.

We haven’t seen the Prissy Fox Shop owner Reagan Summerside since 2015, so fans of Duffy Brown‘s popular Consignment Shop Mystery Series will be happy to know book #6 (Lethal in Old Lace) will be taking us back for another visit to Georgia. By the way, Duffy Brown writes the Cycle Path Mystery Series and is also known for her romance novels which she writes as Dianne Castell.

Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli has signed on to write books number 3 & 4 of her Little Library Mystery Series. Jenny Weston will again be sleuthing up a storm in Bear Falls, Michigan. Fans of Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli (aka Elizabeth Lee for the Nut House Mystery Series) probably also know her as the author of the Emily Kincaid Mystery Series, which also takes place in Michigan.

Kate Carlisle is one busy Cozy Mystery author! Many of you know that this bestselling author’s Fixer-Upper Mystery Series is one of the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel mystery movie series. Well, here’s some more good news! She has just signed to write two more Cozies that will feature California-based Shannon Hammer. (Hopefully that will give us more mystery movies to look forward to!) Kate Carlisle also writes the Bibliophile Mystery Series.

Eva Gates (pseudonym for Vicki Delany) writes the Lighthouse Library Mystery Series, and for those of us who are fans, there will be at least three more Cozies in this series! That’s right, librarian Lucy Richardson and her Himalayan library cat, Charles, will be on the trail of criminals. As Vicki Delany she writes the Year-Round Christmas Mystery Series, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery Series, the Constable Molly Smith Mystery Series, the Ray Robertson Mystery Series, and the Klondike Mystery Series.

Debra H. Goldstein is someone who knows how to juggle titles. She’s not only wears all of the titles associated with being a wife, stepmom, and mom, but she’s also worked as an attorney and judge. She will be releasing One Taste Too Many, which will be the first in a series that features one of a set of twins as its sleuth. She also writes the Carrie Martin and the Mah Jongg Players Mystery Series along with the Denney Silber Mystery Series.

As I said at the beginning of this entry, I’ll be posting the second part of this Cozy Mystery News blog tomorrow.

Here’s the second part of this newsy entry:
Cozy Mystery News – August 2017 – Part 2

New Releases – August 7 to 13, 2017

Here is the list of new release for August 7 to 13!

Bill Crider: Dead, to Begin With (This will be the 24th in the Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery Series.)

Connie di Marco (aka Connie Archer): All Signs Point to Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Zodiac Mystery Series.)

Susan Elia MacNeal: The Paris Spy (This will be the 7th in the Maggie Hope Mystery Series.)

Marcia Muller: The Color of Fear (This will be the 33rd in the Sharon McCone Mystery Series.)

Four New Cozy Holiday Releases Coming September 2017

Cozy holiday season will really be in full swing by September, as we can look forward to four new Holiday themed Cozy Mystery books in that month – two Christmas, one Valentine’s Day, one Thanksgiving!

First will be a Valentine’s Day themed novel, Cat Got Your Secrets by Julie Chase, which will be the 3rd in the Kitty Couture Mystery Series. Valentine’s Day is just on the horizon for pet boutique and organic treat bakery owner Lacy Marie Crocker, when she stumbles upon a body while delivering doggy biscuits. Unfortunately, the most recent person to see the deceased appears to be Lacy’s father, so Lacy will need to work through Valentine’s to help keep her father out of prison and determine who bumped off the unfortunate deceased!

Next up will be Leslie Meier‘s Turkey Trot Murder, the 24th in the Lucy Stone Mystery Series. Lucy Stone is preparing for the annual Turkey Trot 5K on Thanksgiving Day when she stumbles across the frozen body of the daughter of a wealthy investor in local Blueberry Pond. She had struggled with addiction, so the police quickly chalk it up as an accidental overdose, but the puzzling funeral service gives Lucy other suspicions on what may have happened to the unfortunate girl.

Both of the other September Holiday Cozy releases will be Christmas themed.  Laurien Berenson will be releasing Wagging through the Snow, the 21st in the Melanie Travis Mystery Series. Melanie Travis is preparing for Christmas when she learns that her ex-husband and brother have bought a run down pine tree farm, and she agrees to help them get it back into good condition. However, it doesn’t take long before they stumble across a deceased body on the farm. Now Melanie will need to work fast to get the mystery solved in time to have a happy holidays!

Last but not least, Liz Mugavero will be releasing Purring around the Christmas Tree, the 6th in the Pawsitively Organic Mystery Series. Kristin “Stan” Connor and the rest of Frog’s Ledge are preparing for Christmas by lighting up the town with their annual light festival. Unfortunately, the festival is marred by the arrival of Santa’s sleigh – and Santa is dead! Stan will need to figure out why someone would bump off Santa before that most jolly of nights arrives so she and the rest of the town can have a Merry Christmas!

Also of note will be a re-issue of the classic Leslie Meier Christmas themed Cozies, Mistletoe Murder and Christmas Cookie Murder, sold together as Holiday Murder. Neither is new, but if you haven’t read either yet or feel that you’re ready to reread either, this is a convenient way to get both for a lower price!

For more Holiday-themed Cozy Mystery releases, be sure to check my themes on Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, and Christmas Cozies:

Thanksgiving-Themed Cozies

Valentine’s-Themed Cozies

Christmas-Themed Cozies

Three New Cozy Mystery Series Coming September 2017

September will be another great month for Cozy Mystery lovers – we’ll have three more series released by site authors!

First, Anna Lee Huber will be releasing This Side of Murder, the first in the Verity Kent Mystery Series. In 1919, Verity Kent is still mourning the death of her husband when she receives shocking news that he may have been a traitor to the English cause in the Great War. She will need to put her own unique skills to the test to determine the truth for herself – for she had worked for the Intelligence Agency during the war! Anna Lee Huber also writes the Lady Darby Mystery Series, starring Lady Kiera Darby, the widow of a deceased anatomist in 1830s Scotland.

Next, Asking for Truffle will be the first in Dorothy St. James‘s new Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery Series. Charity Penn is surprised when she wins a sweepstake prize of a trip to Camellia Beach, South Carolina – she never entered the contest! A local friend volunteers to ask around the town to find out why she won and if it was on the level >>> but ends up dead in a vat of chocolate. Feeling responsible for his death, Charity will need to crack the case to determine how and why her friend was killed. Dorothy St. James also writes the White House Gardener Mystery Series, starring Casey Calhoun, an assistant gardener at the White House.

Finally, Denise Swanson will be starting off her new (?) Welcome Back to Scumble River Mystery Series, the continuation of her Scumble River Mystery Series, with the entry Dead in the Water. I have to admit that this one seems a bit odd – as the Scumble River Mystery Series isn’t exactly had a long break, having released a book last year. I think it’s only being called a new series because she changed publishers… It still stars school psychologist Skye Dennison, and she’s still solving murders! So if you’re a fan of the Scumble River Mystery Series, it seems like a safe bet that you’ll be a fan of the Welcome Back to Scumble River Mystery Series. Besides the Scumble River Mystery Serieses, Denise Swanson is the author of the Devereaux’s Dime Store Mystery Series, starring Devereaux “Dev” Sinclair, the owner of a Five-and-Dime store in Missouri.

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

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