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One New Mystery Series by a Cozy Mystery Author Coming January 2017

We can look forward to one new series coming out in January of 2017!

Kate Kingsbury will be releasing the first entry in the Merry Ghost Inn Mystery Series, Dead and Breakfast. Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza Harris, are opening up a bed and breakfast in a supposedly haunted house on the Oregon coast when they stumble across a very real corpse in their newly acquired building. At first this seems unfortunate but unlikely to threaten the new business, as the police suspect the unidentifiable corpse to be the former owner of the building, and not connected the B&B at all, but matters change when a second corpse shows up on the nearby beach. Now rumors are circulating that the new business might be dangerous to visit, and the pair of owners will need to solve the murders so they can launch their dream business. Kate Kingsbury also writes the Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Series, the WWII Manor House Mystery Series, the Raven’s Nest Bookstore Mystery Series (as Rebecca Kent) and the Bellehaven House Mystery Series (as Allison Kingsley).

If you’re looking for other great new Cozy Mystery Series >>> these series and more can be found on the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page, or even more upcoming Cozies if you are looking for a continuation of a favorite series on the Soon to Be Released Mysteries page of my Cozy-Mystery site.

January 2017 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in January 2017:

January 2017

Kristi Abbott (aka Eileen Rendahl & Eileen Carr): Pop Goes the Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Popcorn Shop Mystery Series.)

Ellie Alexander (Kate Dyer-Seeley): Fudge & Jury (This will be the 5th in the Bakeshop Mystery Series.)

Stephanie Blackmoore: Murder Wears White (This will be the 2nd in the Wedding Planner Mystery Series.)

Catherine Bruns: Death of the Big Kahuna (This will be the 6th in the Aloha Lagoon Mystery Series.)

Fiona Buckley: The Heretic’s Creed (This will be the 14th in the Ursula Blanchard Elizabethan Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli (aka Elizabeth Lee): She Stopped for Death (This will be the 2nd in the Little Library Mystery Series.)

Alys Clare: A Rustle of Silk (This will be the 1st in the NEW Gabriel Taverner 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”)

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Dead Cold Brew (This will be the 16th in the Coffeehouse Mystery Series.)

Casey Daniels (aka Miranda Bliss & Kylie Logan):  Graveyard Shift (This will be the 1st in the NEW Pepper Martin Paranormal Mystery Series.)

Julianna Deering (aka DeAnna Julie Dodson): Murder on the Moor (This will be the 5th in the Drew Farthering Mystery Series.)

Tim Dorsey: Clownfish Blues (This will be the 20th in the Serge Storm non-Cozy Series.)

Sharon Dunn: Big Sky Showdown (This will be a Stand Alone Love Inspired Suspense novel.)

Mary Feliz: Scheduled to Death (This will be the 2nd in the Maggie McDonald Mystery Series.)

Parnell Hall: A Puzzle to Be Named Later (This will be the 18th in the Puzzle Lady Mystery Series.)

Karen Harper: Drowning Tides (This will be the 2nd in the South Shores Mystery Series.)

Ellen Hart: Fever in the Dark (This will be the 24th in the Jane Lawless Mystery Series.)

Kate Kingsbury (aka Rebecca Kent & Allison Kingsley): Dead and Breakfast (This will be the 1st in the NEW Merry Ghost Inn Mystery Series.)

Karen MacInerney: Whale of a Crime (This will be the 7th in the Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series.)

G.M. Malliet: Devil’s Breath (This will be the 6th in the Max Tudor Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Assault and Beret (This will be the 5th in the Hat Shop Mystery Series.)

Julie Moffett: No Living Soul (This will be the 9th in the Lexi Carmichael Mystery Series.)

Diana Orgain: Third Time’s a Crime (This will be the 3rd in the Love or Money Mystery Series.)

Sara Paretsky: Taste of Life (This will be a Stand Alone mystery story. It was included in Paretsky’s Brush Back mystery novel.)

James Patterson: The Coldest January (This will be a BookShots short story or novella.)

James Patterson: The End (This will be a Stand Alone mystery “BookShot” – Amazon describes these as “Novels you can devour in a few hours”)

James Patterson: Finding Bailey Mae (This will be a Stand Alone mystery “BookShot” – Amazon describes these as “Novels you can devour in a few hours”)

James Patterson: The House Husband (BookShots)

James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein: Robot Revolution (This will be the 3rd in the House of Robots series for children.)

Carol J. Perry: Murder Go Round (This will be the 4th in the Witch City Mystery Series.)

Thomas Perry: The Old Man (This will be a Stand Alone thriller.)

Dani Pettrey: Still Life (This will be the 2nd in the Chesapeake Valor Mystery Series.)

Deanna Raybourn: A Perilous Undertaking (This will be the 2nd in the Veronica Speedwell Mystery Series.)

Sarah Rayne: Death Notes (This will be the 1st in the NEW Phineas Fox Mystery Series.)

Sofie Ryan (aka Sofie Kelly): Telling Tails (This will be the 4th in the Second Chance Cat Mystery Series.)

Fran Stewart: A Wee Homicide in the Hotel (This will be the 3rd in the ScotShop Mystery Series.)

Suzanne Trauth: Time Out (This will be the 2nd in the Dodie O’Dell Mystery Series.)

Tracy Weber: A Fatal Twist (This will be the 4th in the Downward Dog Mystery Series.)

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If you want to see this month’s releases, go to the December 2016 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.)

Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – November 2016

December is almost upon us, so it’s time to discuss our favorite Cozy mysteries that we’ve read in November. This month I discussed Jenn McKinlay‘s Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series and Rae Davies‘s Dusty Deals Mystery Series, so I’ll start the list off with those!

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 November? 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 November 2016 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:

Victoria Abbott (writing duo Mary Jane Maffini & daughter Victoria Maffini): Book Collectors Mystery Series

Ali Brandon (aka Diane A.S. Stuckart): Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series

JoAnna Carl (aka Eve K. Sandstrom): Chocoholic Mystery Series

Kate Carlisle: Fixer-Upper Mystery Series

Rae Davies (aka Lori Devoti): Dusty Deals Mystery Series

Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Year-Round Christmas Mystery Series

Sarah Fox: Music Lover’s Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Corinna Chapman Mystery Series

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

Joan Hess: Maggody Mystery Series

Judy La Salle: Scrooge, the Year After

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

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Library Lover’s Mystery Series

Meg Muldoon: Christmas River Mystery Series (first book Murder in Christmas River)

Louise Penny: Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series

Hannah Reed (aka Deb Baker): Scottish Highlands Mystery Series

Victoria Thompson: Gaslight Mystery Series

Diane Vallere: Costume Shop Mystery Series

Lea Wait: Mainely Needlepoint Mystery Series

[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.

New Releases – November 28 to December 4, 2016

Here is the list of new release for November 28 to December 4!

Jane K. Cleland: The Glow of Death (This will be the 11th in the Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series.)

Kate Dyer-Seeley: First Degree Mudder (This will be the 4th in the Pacific Northwest Mystery Series.)

Karen Harper: Chasing Shadows (This will be the 1st in the NEW South Shores Mystery Series.)

Catherine Lloyd: Death Comes to the Fair (This will be the 4th in the Kurland St. Mary Mysteries.)

Rose Pressey: Haunted Is Always in Fashion (This will be the 4th in the Haunted Vintage Mystery Series.)

Sarah R. Shaber: Louise’s Lies (This will be the 6th in the Louise Pearlie Mystery Series.)

Susan Sleeman: Christmas Conspiracy (This will be the 6th in the First Responders Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Karen Rose Smith: Shades of Wrath (This will be the 6th in the Caprice De Luca Mystery Series.)

Marcia Talley: Footprints to Murder (This will be the 15th in the Hannah Ives Mystery Series.)

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