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Three New Cozy Holiday Releases Coming May 2017

We will have three new Cozy Mystery Series beginning in May 2017.

The first series will be Vanetta Chapman‘s Amish Bishop Mystery Series, which will be starting with What the Bishop Saw. When Amish bishop Henry Lapp arrives at the site of a fire that has left another Amish man dead, he quickly discovers that this fire was no accident, and he will need to use his special power to help determine who truly committed the crime. Vanetta Chapman also writes the Amish Village Mystery Series, the Jacobs Family Mystery Series, and the Shipshewana Amish Quilt Shop Mystery Series.

Next, Meg Macy will be releasing Bearly Departed, the first in her Teddy Bear Mystery Series. Sasha Silverman is the manager of a family owned teddy bear factory in small town Silver Hollow. When a pushy sales representative turns up dead in her factory, she’ll need to solve the case to maintain the wholesome image of her family-friendly business… and possibly to avoid jail herself! Meg Macy is also half of the writing team that writes under the pen name D. E. Ireland (the other being Sharon Farrow), under which they write the Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins Mystery Series.

Finally will be Kathi Daley will be starting her Writer’s Retreat Southern Mystery Series with First Case. When one of the survivors of a tragic massacre is killed exactly 11 years later, reporter Jillian Hanford is given the task of writing a human interest story on her life and sudden death. What is initially a simple assignment quickly becomes a more serious affair when Jillian realizes that she has a real chance of solving the case herself, if she can enlist the help of five writers at a retreat on the island. Kathi Daley is the author of multiple other series, including (but not limited to!) the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series, the TJ Jensen Paradise Lake Mystery Series, and the Whales and Tails Mystery Series.

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

New Cozy Mystery Series

Cozy Mystery News – April 2017

I don’t know where the time goes! I have been meaning to write an entry telling you about the following Cozy Mystery news tidbits, but for some reason, I keep getting side-tracked! So, I’m going to hurry up and tell you about these good-to-hear pieces of Cozy Mystery news. (I’m not going to alphabetize the authors’ name – this time I’m going to write my entry the way my mind works >>>  tangent upon tangent!)

Here’s some terrific hot-weather news! Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib) is going to be writing at least two more Key West Food Critic mysteries! Hayley Snow will be critiquing food down in Key West, with a side of solving crimes. I told you this was terrific news – regardless of the weather!

I’m going to follow the news about hot-weather places/events by telling you that after Vickie Fee‘s Fourth of July Cozy is published (One Fete in the Grave), there will be a fourth Li & Di in Dixie mystery in this series that features Liv McKay, a crime-solving party planner in Dixie, Tennessee.

Staying with the hot-weather theme, I want to be sure you all know that Ellen Byron won the Lefty Award’s Best Humorous Mystery Novel for Body on the Bayou, the second in her Cajun Country Mystery Series. While I’m telling you about Ellen Byron, don’t let me forget that her third book in the series is a Christmas-themed Cozy Cajun (A Cajun Christmas Killing).

Which brings me to the other 2017 Lefty Award Winners:

Catriona McPherson won the Lefty Award for the Best Historical Mystery Novel – Dandy Gilver and the Reek of Red Herrings 

Alexia Gordon won the Lefty Award for the Best Debut Mystery Novel – Murder in G Major

Louise Penny won the Lefty Award for the Best Mystery Novel – A Great Reckoning

And, here’s some more great news: Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra & Nell Hampton) will be releasing Oh, Fudge! in August of this year, which those of you who have visited my Soon to be Released Mysteries page already know. However, the really great news is that there will be at least two more Cozies in her Candy-Coated Mystery Series after this sixth one is released!

Now here’s some great news for Cozy Mystery readers who enjoy crafting! Mollie Cozy Bryan will be releasing her third book (Macramé Murder) which will be followed by a fourth book in her Cora Crafts Mystery Series. This fourth Cozy will be about a retreat for the mothers of children who have just returned back to school after spending their summers at home.

For those of us who are looking forward to Cynthia Riggs‘ 13th book in her Vineyard Mystery Series (Trumpet of Death), you’ll be happy to know that Victoria Trumbull will not be slowing down her crime-solving. Yes, this senior sleuth will be back in a 14th book!

Tonya Kappes, author of the Ghostly Southern Mystery Series as well as several other Cozy Mystery series, will be writing a new series called the Southern Baking Mystery Series. The starring sleuth will be a pastry chef who goes back home to make the wedding cake for her best friend. Oh, oh, that may mean that the wedding doesn’t go quite as expected!

Carole Buggé, the author of the Claire Rawlings Mystery Series has just signed a contract to start a new mystery series. She will be writing a series that focuses on a Jane Austen society that makes its home in a small, Cozy British village. The first book is slated to be called Pride and Prejudice and Poison.

Yow! That’s a whole lot of Cozy Mystery news!

P.S. Click here to see part two of April 2017’s Cozy Mystery news entry.

New Releases – April 3 to April 9, 2017

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

Susan Wittig Albert (aka 1/2 of Robin Paige): The Last Chance Olive Ranch (This will be the 25th in the China Bayles Mystery Series.)

P F Chisholm: A Clash of Spheres (This will be the 8th in the Sir Robert Carey Mystery Series.)

Mary Higgins Clark: All By Myself Alone (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Marla Cooper: Dying on the Vine (This will be the 2nd in the Destination Wedding Mystery Series.)

B.B. Haywood: Town in a Maple Madness (This will be the 8th in the Candy Holliday Mystery Series.)

Tonya Kappes: Southern Fried (This will be the 2nd in the Kenni Lowry Mystery Series.)

Gayle Leeson (aka Amanda Lee & Gayle Trent): Silence of the Jams (This will be the 2nd in the Down South Café Mystery Series.) (This will be a Fourth of July themed mystery.)

Donna Leon: Earthly Remains (This will be the 26th in the Guido Brunetti Mystery Series.)

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Called to Justice (This will be the 2nd in the Quaker Midwife Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Caramel Crush (This will be the 9th in the Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series.)

James Patterson: Night Sniper (This will be a BookShots short story or novella.)

Ann B. Ross: Miss Julia Weathers the Storm (This will be the 19th in the Miss Julia Mystery Series.)

Paige Shelton: Of Books and Bagpipes (This will be the 2nd in the Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series.)

May 2017 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in May 2017:

May 2017

Ellery Adams: Killer Characters (This will be the 8th in the Books by the Bay Mystery Series.)

Mary Kay Andrews: The Beach House Cookbook (This will be a cook book.)

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity and the Widow’s Curse (This will be the 22nd in the Aunt Dimity Mystery Series.)

Kathleen Bridge: Ghostal Living (This will be the 3rd in the Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery Series.)

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Rights a Wrong (This will be the 35th in the Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series.)

Rita Mae Brown: A Hiss Before Dying (This will be the 26th in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series.)

Julia Buckley: Death in Dark Blue (This will be the 2nd in the Writer’s Apprentice Mystery Series.)

Lyn Cahoon: Hospitality and Homicide (This will be the 8th in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series.)

Bailey Cattrell (aka Bailey Cates & Cricket McRae): Nightshade for Warning (This will be the 2nd in the Enchanted Garden Mystery Series.)

Vannetta Chapman: What the Bishop Saw (This will be the 1st in the NEW Amish Bishop Mystery Series.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Dead and Berried (This will be the 3rd in the Cranberry Cove Mystery Series.)

Kate Collins: Yews with Caution (This will be the 19th in the Flower Shop Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: First Case (This will be the 1st in the NEW Writer’s Retreat Southern Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Murder is for Keeps (This will be the 8th in the Penny Brannigan Mystery Series.)

Vickie Fee: One Fete in the Grave (This will be the 3rd in the Liv and Di In Dixie Mystery Series.) (This is a Fourth of July mystery.)

Carolyn Haines: Sticks and Bones (This will be the 18th in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series. This will be a New Year’s Eve mystery.)

Carolyn Hart: Walking on My Grave (This will be the 26th in the Death on Demand Mystery Series.)

Karen MacInerney: Mother’s Little Helper (This will be the 3rd in the Margie Peterson Mystery Series.)

Meg Macy: Bearly Departed (This will be the 1st in the NEW Teddy Bear Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): About a Dog (This is not a mystery. It is a Contemporary Romance novel.)

Victoria Thompson: Murder in the Bowery (This will be the 20th in the Gaslight 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.)

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