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New Releases – October 31 to November 6, 2016

November 2, 2016

Boy, is my face red – this post should have gone up on Monday, but due to a scheduling mistake it didn’t! So happy (belated) Halloween!

Here is the list of new release for October 31 to November 6!

Cathy Ace: The Corpse with the Ruby Lips (This will be the 8th in the Cait Morgan Mystery Series.)

Rebecca Adler: The Good, the Bad and the Guacamole (This will be the 2nd in the Taste of Texas Mystery Series.)

Sandra Balzo: To the Last Drop (This will be the 9th in the Maggy Thorsen Mystery Series.)

Simon Beaufort: The Killing Ship (This will be a thriller.)

Ali Brandon: Twice Told Tail (This will be the 6th in the Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series.)

JoAnna Carl (aka Eve K. Sandstrom): The Chocolate Bunny Brouhaha (This will be the 16th in the Chocoholic Mystery Series.) (This is an Easter themed mystery.)

Kate Carlisle: Deck the Hallways (This will be the 4th in the Fixer-Upper Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Michael Connelly: The Wrong Side of Goodbye (This will be the 21st in the Harry Bosch Mystery Series.)

Ellen Crosby: The Champagne Conspiracy (This will be the 7th in the Wine Country Mystery Series.)

Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): We Wish You a Murderous Christmas (This will be the 2nd in the Year Round Christmas Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Kate Ellis: A High Mortality of Doves (Stand Alone or New Series)

Charles Finch: The Inheritance (This will be the 10th in the Charles Lenox Mystery Series.)

Susannah Hardy (aka Sadie Hartwell): A Killer Kebab (This will be the 3rd in the Greek to Me Mystery Series.)

Betty Hechtman: Hooking for Trouble (This will be the 11th in the Crochet Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Better Late Than Never (This will be the 7h in the Library Lover’s Mystery Series.)

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

Anne Perry: A Christmas Message (This will be the 14th in the Chistmas Mystery Series.)

Hank Phillippi Ryan: Say No More (This will be the 5th in the Jane Ryland Mystery Series.)

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December 2016 Mystery Book New Releases

November 1, 2016

The following Mystery Books will be released in December 2016:

December 2016

Lorraine Bartlett (aka Lorna Barrett & L.L. Bartlett) & Laurie Cass(aka Laura Alden): Dead, Bath, and Beyond (This will be the 4th in the Victoria Square Mystery Series.)

Sandra Bretting: Something Foul at Sweetwater (This will be the 2nd in the Missy DuBois Mystery Series.)

Laura Childs: Egg Drop Dead (This will be the 7th in the Cackleberry Club Mystery Series.)

Blaize Clement & John Clement: The Cat Sitter and the Canary (This will be the 11th in the Dixie Hemingway Mystery Series.)

Hy Conrad: Death on the Patagonian Express (This will be the 3rd in the Amy’s Travel Mystery Series.)

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Spouse on Haunted Hill (This will be the 8th in the Haunted Guest House Mystery Series.)

Jeffery Deaver: The Sequel (This will be a Stand Alone mystery story.)

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Ill Met by Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery Series.)

Carola Dunn: Buried in the Country (This will be the 4th in the Cornish Mystery Series.)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Prose and Cons (This will be the 2nd in the Magical Bookshop Mystery Series.)

Christopher Fowler: Strange Tide (This will be the 13th in the Bryant and May Mystery Series.)

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

Christine Husom: Frosty the Dead Man (This will be the 3rd in the Snow Globe Shop Mystery Series.)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: The Ghosts of Misty Hollow (This will be the 6th in the Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery Series.)

Tonya Kappes: A Ghostly Reunion (This will be the 5th in the Ghostly Southern Mystery Series.)

Diane Kelly: Above the Paw (This will be the 6th in the Paw Enforcement Mystery Series.)

Kelly Lane: Cold Pressed Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Olive Grove Mystery Series.)

Victoria Laurie: Forever, Again (This may be a Stand Alone or a Maddie Flynn mystery for young adults.)

Amanda Lee (aka Gayle Trent & Gayle Leeson): Better Off Thread(This will be the 10th in the Embroidery Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

T.C. LoTempio: Crime and Catnip (This will be the 3rd in the Nick and Nora Mystery Series.)

Kendel Lynn: Pot Luck (This will be the 4th in the Elliot Lisbon Mystery Series.)

Molly MacRae: Plaid and Plagiarism (This will be the 1st in the NEW Highland Bookshop Mystery Mystery Series.)

Alyssa Maxwell: A Pinch of Poison (This will be the 2nd in the Lady and Lady’s Maid Series.)

Susan McBride: Walk Into Silence (This will be 3rd in the Maggie Ryan Mystery Series.)

Liz Mugavero (aka Cate Conte): Custom Baked Murder (This will be the 5th in the Pawsitively Organic Mystery Series.)

Diana Orgain: Trigger Yappy (This will be the 2nd in the Roundup Crew Mystery Series.)

Gail Oust: Curried Away (This will be the 4th in the Piper Prescott Mystery Series.) (This is an Oktoberfest themed mystery.)

James Patterson & Richard DiLallo: The Christmas Mystery (This will be a Detective Luc Moncrief “BookShot” – Amazon describes these as “Novels you can devour in a few hours”) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein: Word of Mouse (This will be a Middle Grade book.)

James Patterson: Black & Blue (This will be a “BookShot” – Amazon describes these as “Novels you can devour in a few hours”)

James Patterson & Shan Serafin: Come and Get Us (This will be a Bookshot mystery.)

Eileen Rendahl (aka Kristi Abbott & Eileen Carr): Cover Me in Darkness (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Barbara Ross: Iced Under (This will be the 5th in the Maine Clambake 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.)

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

Diane Vallere: Pearls Gone Wild (This will be the 6th in the Style & Error Mystery Series.)

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

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Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – October 2016

October 29, 2016

November’s almost here, so it’s time to discuss the Cozy mysteries we have read (during October) and can strongly recommend to other site viewers! This month I discussed Teresa Trent‘s Pecan Bayou Mystery Series and Ellery Adam‘s Books by the Bay 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 October? 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 October 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

Ellery Adams: Books by the Bay Mystery Series

Sally Andrew: Tannie Maria Mystery Series (Recipes for Love and Murder, book #1)

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series

Donald Bain & “Jessica Fletcher”: Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series

Jenna Bennett (aka Jennie Bentley & Bente Gallagher): Savannah Martin Mystery Series

Stephanie Blackmoore: Wedding Planner Mystery Series

Stephanie Bond: Body Movers Mystery Series

Julia Buckley: Writer Apprentice Mystery Series

Julia Buckley: Undercover Dish Mystery Series

Ellen Byron: Cajun Country Mystery Series

Laura Childs: Scrapbooking Mystery Series

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Orchard Mystery Series

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Mysterious Detective Mystery Series

Barbara Early (aka Beverly Allan): Vintage Toy Shop Mystery Series

Alex Erikson: Bookstore Café Mystery Series (Death by Coffee, book #1)

Daryl Wood Gerber (aka Avery Aames): Cookbook Nook Mystery Series

Nancy Haddock: Silver Six Crafting Mystery Series

Charlaine Harris: Aurora Teagarden Mystery Series

Carolyn Hart: Bailey Ruth Ghost Mystery Series

Lee Hollis: Hayley Powell Food & Cocktail Mystery Series

Katherine Bolger Hyde: Crime with the Classics (Arsenic with Austen – book #1)

Sofie Kelly (aka Sofie Ryan): Magical Cats Mystery Series

Annie Knox (aka Wendy Lyn Watson): Pet Boutique Mystery Series

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series

Jess Lourey: Murder-by-Month Mystery Series

Leslie Meier: Lucy Stone Mystery Series

Diana Orgain: Love or Money Mystery Series

Gigi Pandian: Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Series (Artifact, book #1)

Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Mystery Series

Denise Swanson: Scumble River Mystery Series

Joyce Tremel: Brewing Trouble Mystery Series

Teresa Trent: Pecan Bayou 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.

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Ellery Adams: Books by the Bay Mystery Series

October 26, 2016

A Killer Plot (A Books by the Bay Mystery Book 1) Next up on my list of the most popular and recommended series, I’ve decided to reread the first book in Ellery Adam‘s Books by the Bay Mystery Series, A Killer Plot.

This book actually ties in neatly to one of the previous entries in this series, the Ashton Corner’s Book Club by Erika Chase. Much like Erika Chase’s series, the Books by the Bay series revolves around a group of book enthusiasts, though in this case it is a writer’s group instead of a reading group. I do find it interesting that none of the initial writers are necessarily writers of mystery fiction. Most books revolving around a literary theme such as a writer’s club, reader’s club, or library or book store type setting tend to revolve around mystery fiction, but the Bayside Book Writer’s Club instead has a wide variety of would-be authors, including diverse interests such as romance, science fiction, and Olivia (the sleuth of the series) own interest, historical fiction.

As is inevitable in Cozy mysteries, whenever more than three people gather, murder is sure to follow, and it isn’t long before the leader of the writer’s club turns up dead. New group member Olivia Limoges, touched by the charmer (the victim) and offended by the murder, decides to get to the bottom of the case.

One thing I definitely like about this series is that Olivia isn’t too similar to what you would think of as a standard modern Cozy sleuth. Many modern Cozy sleuths are either small business owners of food industry like bakeries or hobby shops catering to something like knitting, while others work in a very Cozy-friendly environment like a library. While these are good ways to hook a series into a given “theme” through the protagonist’s work, after a while they can sometimes seem a bit similar. In contrast, Olivia is independently wealthy, as her family has had significant means and influence in the town she lives in for some time. This also helps lend a certain amount of realism to certain elements of a Cozy that sometimes feel a bit questionable – namely, how does the owner of a small business also find time to continuously solve mysteries? It sure must be easier if you are wealthy enough to not worry about working a regular job!

(As someone who recently adopted a dog, I’ll admit I also particularly enjoyed Olivia’s interactions with her four-legged companion, Captain Haviland, her well-trained standard poodle. I’ll admit our little Cocoa isn’t at all as well-trained as Captain Haviland, but she is still a puppy after all!)

If you’re looking for a modern Cozy series with a non-standard protagonist, there’s a lot to recommend in the Books by the Bay Mystery Series. Ellery Adams also writes a number of other popular series that are at the top of a lot of our favorite Cozies lists; she’s also the author of the Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery Series, the Book Retreat Mystery Series, the Supper Club Mystery Series, the Antiques & Collectibles Mystery Series, and the Hope Street Church Mystery Series. (She sure does keep busy!)

If you’re interested in reading more of these brief revisits of some of the more popular Cozy Mystery Series that I’ve written in the past, you can find them at the Most Recommended Cozy Mystery Series page on my site.

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