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Three New Cozy Mystery Series Coming August 2017

August will be a good month for Cozy Mystery lovers – there will be three new series debuting by site authors!

 Amanda Flower will be releasing Assaulted Caramel, the first entry in her Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series. When Bailey King returns from her career in New York City to her hometown of Harvest, Ohio, having heard that her grandfather’s heart condition has worsened, she’s reassured to learn that the situation isn’t as grave as she had heard. However, she isn’t reassured to discover a dead developer in the candy shop kitchen – and her grandfather’s knife sticking from the corpse. Bailey will need to get to the bottom of this dastardly crime to make sure that her grandfather stays out of jail. Amanda Flower also writes the Magical Bookshop Mystery Series, the Living History Museum Mystery Series, the Appleseed Creek Mystery Series, the Andi Boggs Mystery Series (intended for children), and (as Isabella Alan) the Amish Quilt Shop Mystery Series.

 Cate Conte will be putting out the first in the new Cat Cafe Mystery Series, which will be starting with Cat About Town. When Maddie James visits Daybreak Island in Massachusetts, a stray orange tabby inspires her to open a cat cafe. Unfortunately, the precocious tabby also locates a corpse in quick order, and outsider Maddie will need to act fast to ensure that she isn’t held responsible for a murder that she didn’t commit. As Liz Mugavero, Cate Conte also writes the Pawsitively Organic Mystery Series, starring an ex-public relations executive in small town Connecticut.

Finally, E. J. Copperman will be releasing Dog Dish of Doom, the first entry in his An Agent to the Paws Mystery Series. Kay Powell, professional agent, is looking for a new star client – and she may have found one in a dog! The biggest problem with client Bruno is his owners, Trent and Louise – a problem that isn’t exactly reduced when Trent turns up face down in Bruno’s water dish. Kay feels protective to her clients, and will do whatever it takes to figure out who did this to her client’s owner. E. J. Copperman also writes the Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series, the Mysterious Detective Mystery Series, the Asperger’s Mystery Series, and, as Jeffrey Cohen, the Aaron Tucker Mystery Series and the Double Feature Mystery Series.

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

Happy Fourth of July!

For those of you in the USA, Happy Fourth of July!

My husband and I drove up to Colorado Springs to visit my brother, since he took the whole week off. Our son is “holding down the fort” back home. (It’s so nice not having to board our puppy, Cocoa. It makes our trips a lot easier for me. When our children were young and we took family vacations, I would worry about leaving our dog, Sprite at a kennel. Of course, I worry about a lot of things…)

Getting back to the purpose of my entry: I hope you all are spending your holidays just the way you would like to spend them, be it grilling, sleeping, going to firework shows, relaxing, or reading.

And, here is my page for the Fourth of July Mystery Books, in case you want to do some Fourth-themed reading!

Happy Fourth of July!

New Releases – July 3 to July 9, 2017

Here is the list of new release for July 3 to July 9!

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Sowed to Death (This will be the 2nd in the Farmer’s Daughter Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Second Look (This will be the 2nd in the Writer’s Retreat Southern Mystery Series.)

Victoria Laurie: A Panicked Premonition (This will be the 15th in the Psychic Eye Mystery Series.)

Sandra Orchard: Over Maya Dead Body (This will be the 3rd in the Serena Jones Mystery Series.)

Denise Swanson: Lions and Tigers and Murder, Oh My (This will be the in the Devereaux’s Dime Store Mystery Series.)

August 2017 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in August 2017:

August 2017

Donna Andrews: Gone Gull (This will be the 21st Meg Langslow Mystery Series.)

Gail Bowen: The Winners’ Circle (This will be the 17th in the Joanne Kilbourne Mystery Series.)

Rhys Bowen: On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service (This will be the 11th in the Royal Spyness Mystery Series.)

Molly Cox Bryan: Macramé Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Cora Crafts Mystery Series.)

Vannetta Chapman: When the Bishop Needs an Alibi (This will be the 2nd in the Amish Bishop Mystery Series.)

Nancy Coco (aka Nancy Parra & Nell Hampton): Oh, Fudge! (This will be the 6th in Candy-Coated Mystery Series.)

Cate Conte (aka Liz Mugavero): Cat about Town (This will be the 1st in the NEW Cat Cafe Mystery Series.)

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Dog Dish of Doom (This will be the 1st in the NEW An Agent to the Paws Mystery Series.)

Isis Crawford (aka Barbara Block): A Catered Costume Party (This will be the 13th in the Mystery with Recipes Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

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

Kathi Daley: Third Strike (This will be the 3rd in the Writers Retreat Southern Seashore Mystery Series.)

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

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan) Assaulted Caramel (This will be the 1st in the NEW Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series.)

Sally Goldenbaum: Murder Wears Mittens (This will be the 12th in the Seaside Knitters Society Mystery Series.)

Sue Grafton: Y is for Yesterday (This will be the 25th in the Kinsey Millhone MysterySeries.)

Susanna Gregory (aka Simon Beaufort): The Habit of Murder (This will be the 23rd in the Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew Mystery Series.)

David Handler (aka 1/2 of Russell Andrews w/Peter Gethers): The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes (This will be the 9th in the Stewart Hoag and Lulu Mystery Series.)

Sadie Hartwell (aka Susannah Hardy): A Knit before Dying (This will be the 2nd in the Tangled Web Mystery Series.)

Betty Hechtman: A Tangled Yarn (This will be the 5th in the Yarn Retreat Mystery Series.)

Julianne Holmes: Chime and Punishment (This will be the 3rd in the Clock Shop Mystery Series.)

William Kent Krueger: Sulfur Springs (This will be the 16th in the Cork O’Connor 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.)

Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Cat Shining Bright (This will be the 20th in the Joe Grey Mystery Series.)

Louise Penny: Glass Houses (This will be the in the Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series.)

Carol J. Perry: Grave Errors (This will be the 5th in the Witch City Mystery Series.) (This will be a Halloween mystery.)

Peter Robinson: Sleeping in the Ground (This will be the 24th in the Inspector Banks Mystery Series.)

Lisa Scottoline: Exposed (This will be the 16th in the Rosato & DiNunzio Mystery Series.)

Robert K. Tanenbaum: Without Fear or Favor (This will be the 29th in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Thriller Series.)

David Thurlo: Kill the Heroes (This will be the 4th in the Charlie Henry Mystery Series.)

Rebecca Tope: Peril in the Cotswolds (This will be the 14th in the Cotswold Mystery Series.)

Diane Vallere: Dressed to Confess (This will be the 3rd in the Costume Shop Mystery Series.)

If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the July 2017 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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