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One New Cozy Holiday Release and One New Cozy Mystery Series Coming June 2017

There will be one new Cozy Holiday release nad one Cozy Mystery Series coming out in June 2017. Since there’s only one of both, I’m going to cover them both in this post.

First, the new series will be Maia Chance‘s Agnes and Effie Mystery Series, which will be beginning with Bad Housekeeping. Academic Agnes Blythe has just been dumped by her boyfriend when her Great Aunt Effie arrives with an offer to help her restore the old Stagecoach Inn to greatness. At loose ends, Agnes agrees – but she likely didn’t expect to find the body of a woman both Agnes and Effie had argued with shortly before as one of the first chores at the inn! Obviously framed, Agnes and Effie will need to locate the true killer in order to clear their own good names. Maia Chance also writes the Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery Series and the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery Series.

The holiday mystery we can look forward to isn’t exactly a Halloween Cozy and not exactly a Thanksgiving Cozy, but a “Pumpkin Day Festival” mystery… still, I say it counts! The Black Cat Sees His Shadow will be the third book in Kay Finch‘s Bad Luck Cat Mystery Series, starring aspiring mystery author Sabrina Tate. Sabrina is attending the first night of the pumpkin festival when she meets Tia, a woman who happens to look just like her. When a rival of Tia’s turns up dead, Sabrina takes it upon herself to clear the name of her new friend. Kay Finch also writes the Corie McKenna Mystery Series.

For more upcoming new Cozy Mystery Series, visit this page on my site:

New Cozy Mystery Series

And if you want to see more Halloween or Thanksgiving themed Cozies, be sure to check out their theme pages:

Halloween Mystery Books

Thanksgiving Mystery Books

June 2017 Mystery Book New Releases

I know it is Monday, and normally I do put up the weekly releases… but since it is also the 1st of the month, I’m pushing that back until tomorrow. So if you’re looking for this week’s Cozy Mystery new releases, be sure to check in tomorrow!

The following Mystery Books will be released in June 2017:

June 2017

Ellie Alexander (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley): A Crime of Passion Fruit (This will be the 6th in the Bakeshop Mystery Series.)

Lorna Barrett (aka Lorraine Bartlett & L. L. Bartlett): A Just Clause (This will be the 11th in the Booktown Mystery Series.)

Laurien Berenson: Murder at the Puppy Fest (This will be the 20th in the Melanie Travis Mystery Series.)

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): A Ghostly Light (This will be the 7th in the Haunted Home Renovation Mystery Series.)

Leslie Budewitz: Treble at the Jam Fest (This will be the 4th in the Food Lovers’ Village Mystery Series.)

Kate Carlisle: Once Upon a Spine (This will be the 12th in the Bibliophile Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Patterned After Death (This will be the 12th in the Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series.)

Maia Chance: Bad Housekeeping (This will be the 1st in the NEW Agnes and Effie Mystery Series.)

Maya Corrigan: The Tell-Tale Tarte (This will the 4th in the Five-Ingredient Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: Taming of the Tabby (This will be the 12th in the Whales and Tails Mystery Series.)

Janet Evanovich: Dangerous Minds (This will be the 2nd in the Knight and Moon Mystery Series.)

Kay Finch: The Black Cat Sees His Shadow (This will be the 3rd in the Bad Luck Cat Mystery Series. This will be a “Pumpkin Days Festival” mystery.)

John Grisham: Camino Island (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Carolyn Haines: The House of Memory (This will be the 2nd in the Pluto’s Snitch Mystery Series.)

Lee Hollis: Death of a Lobster Lover (This will be the 9th in the Hayley Powell Mystery Series.)

Victoria Houston: Dead Spider (This will be the 17th in the Loon Lake Fishing Mystery Series.)

Julie Hyzy: Grace to the Finish (This will be the 8th in the Manor House Mystery Series.)

Kylie Logan (aka Casey Daniels & Miranda Bliss): French Fried (This will be the 2nd in the Ethnic Eats Mystery Series.)

Susan McBride: Come Helen High Water (This will be the 4th in the River Road Mystery Series.)

Tim Myers (aka Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, Chris Cavender, Casey Mayes, Jessica Beck, & D.B. Morgan): Honeymoon for Murder (This will be the in the Lighthouse Inn Mystery Series.)

James Patterson and Howard Roughan: Dr. Death (This will be a Stand Alone novel.)

James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts: From Hero to Zero (This will be the 10th in the Middle School non-mystery Series.)

Rose Pressey: If the Haunted Fits, Wear It (This will be the 5th in the Haunted Vintage Mystery Series.)

Maggie Sefton: Only Skein Deep (This will be the 15th in the Knitting Mystery Series.)

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.)

Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – April 2017

April is ending, so it’s time to discuss our favorite Cozy Mysteries that we have read this month! If you read a Cozy mystery this month and want to recommend it to the rest of us, be sure to post it here! This month, I’ve unfortunately had less reading time than I would have liked, so all I’ve read is Ann Rule‘s A Rose for Her Grave… which unfortunately isn’t a Cozy mystery, but I still recommend it! (It doesn’t go on this month’s list, though…) If you want to know why I recommend it, be sure to check the post I wrote about it.

So, what have you been reading that you can recommend in April? Please be sure to tell us why you liked these Cozies so much. I know we’re all always on the lookout for more particularly good Cozy Mystery authors! (If you have a lot of Cozies you think are great, please post the ones you like the most at the top of the list.)

As always, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.

What really good Cozy Mystery did you read during April 2017 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:

Cathy Ace: WISE Inquiries Agency Mystery Series

Ellery Adams (aka J. B. Stanley, Jennifer Stanley, & 1/2 of Lucy Arlington): Supper Club Mystery Series

Susan Wittig Albert: China Bayles Herbal Mystery Series

Lorraine Bartlett (aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorna Barrett): Victoria Square Mystery Series

Rhys Bowen: In Farleigh Field (stand alone non-Cozy by a normally Cozy author)

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series

Blaize Clement: Dixie Hemmingway Mystery Series

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series

Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery Series

Andrea Frazer: Falconer Files Mystery Series (first book Death of an Old Git)

Kitty French: Chapelwick Mystery Series (first book The Skeletons of Scarborough House – Note: contains profanity and “adult” themes)

Agatha Frost: Peridale Cafe Cozy Mystery Series (first book Pancakes and Corpses)

Anne George: Southern Sisters Mystery Series

H. Y. Hanna: Oxford Tearoom Mystery Series (first book A Scone To Die For)

Susannah Hardy (aka Sadie Hartwell): Greek to Me Mystery Series

Sherry Harris: Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery Series

Chautona Havig: Hartfield Mystery Series (first book Manuscript for Murder)

Heather Horrocks: Who-Dun-Him Inn Mystery Series

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Series

P. D. James: The Mistletoe Murder (short story collection)

T E Kinsey: Lady Hardcastle Mystery Series (first book A Quiet Life in the Country)

Amanda Lee (aka Gayle Trent & Gayle Leeson): Embroidery Mystery Series

Gayle Leeson (aka Gayle Trent & Amanda Lee): Down South Cafe Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Cupcake Baker Mystery Series

Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini: Carpenter & Quincannon, Professional Detective Services Mystery Series

Linda Reilly: Deep Fried Mystery Series (first book Fillet of Murder)

David Rosenfelt: Andy Carpenter Mystery Series

Kate Saunders: Laetitia Rodd Mystery Series (first book The Secrets of Wishtide)

Paige Shelton: Dangerous Type Mystery Series

Fran Stewart: Scotshop Mystery Series

Diane Vallere: Material Witness Mystery Series

Lea Wait: Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series

Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series

Diane Xarissa: Isle of Man Mystery Series (first book Aunt Bessie Assumes)

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]

I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month.

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

P.S. I usually don’t comment on your recommendations since they speak for themselves.

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