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New Releases – February 27 to March 5, 2017

Here is the list of new release for February 27 to March 5!

(By the way, I am still looking for Monthly Recommendations for February!)

Cathy Ace: The Case of the Curious Cook (This will be the 3rd in the WISE Enquiries Agency Mystery Series.)

Winnie Archer (aka Melissa Bourbon & Misa Ramirez): Kneaded to Death (This will be the 1st in the NEW Bread Shop Mystery Series.)

David Baldacci: The Width of the World (This will be the 3rd in the Vega Jane Mystery Series – Ages 11-14, Grades 6-9.)

Rhys Bowen: In Farleigh Field (This will be a stand-alone non-Cozy mystery.)

Lynn Cahoon: Fatality by Firelight (This will be the 2nd in the Cat Latimer Mystery Series.)

Susan Rogers Cooper: Best Served Cold (This will be the 14th in the Milt Kovak Mystery Series.)

Patricia Cornwell: Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert (This will be a revised & expanded version of Cornwell’s 2002 previously released “Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed”)

Joanne Fluke: Banana Cream Pie Murder (This will be the 21st in the Hannah Swensen Mystery Series.)

Anthea Fraser: Retribution (This will be the 10th in the Rona Parish Mystery Series.)

Tonya Kappes: A Ghostly Mortality (This will be the 6th in the Ghostly Southern Mystery Series.)

Faye Kellerman: Bone Box (This will be the 24th in the Decker & Lazarus Mystery Series.)

Carlene O’Connor: Murder at an Irish Wedding (This will be the 2nd in the Irish Village Mystery Series.)

Annelise Ryan (aka Allyson K. Abbott &Beth Amos): Dead in the Water (This will be the 8th in the Mattie Winston Mystery Series.)

Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – February 2017

February is running to a close, and that means it’s time to discuss our recommended Cozy Mysteries that we’ve read throughout the month. If you read a Cozy you can strongly recommend in the month of February, be sure to let the rest of us know here! My own recommendation for this month is Kate Collins‘s Flower Shop Mystery Series.

If you’re interested in reading why I’m recommending these series, you can go to the Most Popular & Recommended Cozy Mystery Series page on my Cozy-Mystery site for my full write-ups on each of these great Cozy series.

So, what have you been reading that you can recommend in February? 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 February 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:

Ellie Alexander  (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley): Bakeshop Mystery Series

Sandra Balzo: Maggy Thorsen Mystery Series

Lorna Barrett   aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorraine Bartlett: Booktown Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton: Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series

J. W. Becton: Southern Fraud Thriller Series (first book Absolute Liability)

Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey): Emergency Dessert Squad Mystery Series

Janet Cantrell (aka Kaye George): Fat Cat Mystery Series

Kerry J Charles: Dulcie Chambers Mystery Series

Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra and Nell Hampton): Candy-Coated Mystery Series

Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Coffeehouse Mystery Series

Deborah Crombie: Kincaid & James Mystery Series

Annette Dashofy: Zoe Chambers Mystery Series (first book Circle of Influence)

Jo Dereske: Miss Zukas Mystery Series

Susan Finlay: The Outsiders Mystery Series (first book In the Shadows)

Amanda Flower   (aka Isabella Alan): Appleseed Creek Mystery Series AND Magical Bookshop Mystery Series

Jean Flowers (aka Camille Minichino, Margaret Grace, & Ada Madison): Postmistress Mystery Series

Parnell Hall: Puzzle Lady Mystery Series

L.B. Hathaway: Posie Parker Mystery Series

Christine Husom: Snow Globe Shop Mystery Series

Delia James: Witch’s Cat Mystery Series

Diane Kelly: Tara Holloway Mystery Series

Catherine Lloyd: Kurland St. Mary Mystery Series

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Hat Shop Mystery Series

Julie Moffett: Lexi Carmichael Mystery Series

Joanne Pence: Angie Amalfi Mystery Series

Louise Penny: Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series

David Rosenfelt: Andy Carpenter Mystery Series

Hank Phillippi Ryan: Jane Ryland Mystery Series

Paige Shelton: Dangerous Type Mystery Series

Patricia Smiley: Pacific Homicide (stand-alone mystery)

Joyce Tremel: Brewing Trouble Mystery Series

Sigrid Vansandt: Helen & Martha Cozy Mystery Series (first book Two Birds With One Stone)

[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.

Four New-to-the-Site Cozy Authors

I’m adding four more new authors to the site. As usual, these are authors I’ve heard of from visitors to the site, either through comments or by email.

 Julie Chase is a mother of three who lives in Ohio. She’s also a member of the International Thriller Writers and the Sisters in Crime. She is the author of the Kitty Couture Mystery Series, starring the owner of an pet boutique in New Orleans, and also writes as Julie Anne Lindsey,  under which she has written the Geek Girl Mystery Series starring an IT manager, and the Patience Price Mystery Series, starring a counselor.

Wendy Sand Eckel is the author of the Rosalie Hart Mystery Series, which stars the owner of a small cafe in a small town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Katherine Bolger Hyde, who has a degree in Russian Literature from Reed College, has lived in many locations in the United States but now resides in California. She is the author of the Crime With the Classics Mystery Series, which stars a college professor on the Oregon coast, as well as several children’s fantasy books.

Meera Lester has been in the writing, film, and publishing industries for over two decades, and has been an editor, an organizer, and author of nearly two dozen nonfiction books. Her Cozy Mystery Series, the Henny Penny Farmett Mystery Series, stars an ex-cop who has started a small farm in Las Flores, California.

I hope you enjoy all these great looking Cozy Mystery authors!

New Releases – February 20 to 26, 2017

Here is the list of new release for February 20 to 26!

M.C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Death of a Ghost (This will be the 33rd in the Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series.)

Nancy J. Cohen: Facials Can Be Fatal (This will be the 13th in the Bad Hair Day Mystery Series.)

Phillip DePoy: The English Agent (This will be the 2nd in the Christopher Marlowe Mystery Series.)

Miranda James (aka Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Dean James): Twelve Angry Librarians (This will be the 8th in the Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series.)

James Patterson: Achilles (This will be a Bookshot, however I don’t know if it will be a mystery.)

James Patterson & Emily Raymond: Humans Bow Down (This will be a Stand Alone Mystery novel.)

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