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November 2015 Mystery Book New Releases

October 1, 2015

The following Mystery Books will be released in November 2015:

Ellery Adams (aka J.B. Stanley & Jennifer Stanley): Writing All Wrongs (This will be the 7th in the Books by the Bay Mystery Series.)

Deb Baker (aka Hannah Reed): Murder Decks the Halls (This will be a story in the Gertie Johnson Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery story.)

David Baldacci: The Guilty (This will be the 4th in the Will Robie Mystery Series.)

Rhys Bowen: Away in a Manger (This will be the 15th in the Molly Murphy Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Laura Bradford (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey): A Christmas Mourning (This will be a Christmas themed mystery story.)

Ali Brandon: Plot Boiler (This will be the 5th in the Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series.) (This is a Fourth of July themed mystery.)

JoAnna Carl (aka Eve K. Sandstrom): The Chocolate Falcon Fraud (This will be the 15th in the Chocoholic Mystery Series.)

Kate Carlisle: Crowned and Moldering (This will be the 3rd in the Fixer-Upper Mystery Series.)

Joelle Charbonneau: Need (This will be a Stand Alone or New Mystery Series for grades 7 and up.)

Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke: All Dressed in White (This will be the 2nd in the Under Suspicion Series.)

Kate Collins: Florist Grump (This will be the 17th in the Flower Shop Mystery Series.)

Michael Connelly: The Crossing (This will be the 19th in the Harry Bosch Mystery Series & the 6th in the Mickey Haller Mystery Series.)

Patricia Cornwell: Depraved Heart (This will be the 23rd in the Kay Scarpetta Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: The Cat of Christmas Past (This will be the 6th in the Whales and Tails Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Krista Davis: Murder Most Howl (This will be the 3rd in the Paws and Claws Mystery Series.)

Vicki Delany (aka Eva Gates): Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen (This will be the 1st in the NEW Year-Round Christmas Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Hannah Dennison: Accused! (This will be the 5th in the Vicky Hill Exclusive! Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth J. Duncan: Untimely Death (This will be the 1st in the NEW Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery Series.)

Janet Evanovich: Tricky Twenty-Two (This will be the 22nd in the Stephanie Plum Mystery Series.)

Charles Finch: Home by Nightfall (This will be the 9th in the Charles Lenox Mystery Series.)

Jean Flowers (aka Camille Minichino, Margaret Grace, & Ada Madison): Death Takes Priority (This will be the 1st in the NEW Postmistress Mystery Series.)

Christine L. Goff: A Parliament of Owls (This will be the 6th in the Birdwatcher’s Mysteries.)

Sally Goldenbaum: Trimmed with Murder (This will be the 10th in the Seaside Knitters Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Barbara Graham: Murder by Kindness: The Gift Quilt (This will be the 7th in the Quilted Mystery Series.)

Parnell Hall: A Fool for a Client (This will be the 20th in the Stanley Hastings Series.)

Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper): White Colander Crime (This will be the 5th in the Vintage Kitchen Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Susannah Hardy (aka Sadie Hartwell): Olive and Let Die (This will be the 2nd in the Greek to Me Mystery Series.)

Carolyn Hart: High Stakes (This will be a Stand Alone Mystery.)

Sadie Hartwell (aka Susannah Hardy): Yarned and Dangerous (This will be the 1st in the NEW Tangled Web Mystery Series.)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: A Body to Spare (This will be the 10th in the Odelia Grey Mystery Series.)

J.A. Jance: No Honor Among Thieves (This will be an Ali Reynolds/Joanna Brady Mystery Series novella.)

Jonathan Kellerman & Jesse Kellerman: The Golem of Paris (This will be the 2nd in the Golem Series.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene: A Dickens of a Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW Canterville Book Shop Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Amanda Lee (aka Gayle Trent): The Stitching Hour (This will be the 9th in the Embroidery Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Elizabeth Lee (aka Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli): Nuts and Buried (This will be the 3rd in the Nut House Mystery Series.)

T.C. LoTempio: Claws for Alarm (This will be the 2nd in the Nick and Nora Mystery Series.)

Blanche Day Manos: Moonlight Can Be Murder (This is the 1st in the NEW Ned McNeil Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Nancy Martin: Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything (This will be the 1st in the NEW Miss Ruffles Mystery Series..)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): A Likely Story (This will be the 6th in the Library Lover’s Mystery Series.)

Karen E. Olson: Hidden (This will be the 1st in a NEW Nicole Jones Thriller Mystery Series.)

Diana Orgain: Yappy Hour (This will be the 1st in the NEW Roundup Crew Mystery  Series.)

Kate Parker: The Conspiring Woman (This will be the 4th in the Victorian Bookshop Mystery Series.)

James Patterson: Cross Justice (This will be the 23rd in the Alex Cross Series.)

Anne Perry: A Christmas Escape (This will be the 13th in the Christmas Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Spencer Quinn: Santa 365 (This will be a Chet and Bernie Mystery Series story.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Susan Sleeman: High-Caliber Holiday (This will be the 3rd in the First Responders Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Victoria Thompson: Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue (This will be the 19th in the Gaslight Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

LynDee Walker: Cover Shot (This will be the 5th in the Headlines in Heels Mystery Series.)

Penny Warner (aka Penny Pike): The Hunt for the Missing Spy (This will be the 5th in the Code Busters Club Mystery Series for children.)

Livia J. Washburn: The Candy Cane Cupcake Killer (This will be the in the Fresh-Baked Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Betty Webb: The Puffin of Death (This will be the 4th in the Gunn Zoo Mystery Series.)

Suzanne Young: Hotel Ruby (This will be a Stand Alone or New Series mystery.)

Here are this month’s releases: October 2015 Mystery Book New Releases.

I have lots and lots of  Cozies that are scheduled to be released so please click on this link to go to the Soon to be Released Mysteries page on the site.

(These are the mysteries by authors who are currently on the Cozy Mystery site.)

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Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – September 2015

September 28, 2015

I have been waiting and waiting for autumn to finally arrive! Our weather is still balmy down here in San Antonio, but at least this opens up the time when I start reading the Cozy Mysteries I have been putting off because of the appropriate seasons/holidays. I know it’s still too early, and I am making myself wait a little longer to read my Halloween Cozies, followed by my Christmas Cozies.

I am sooo looking forward to being able to read Margaret Grace‘s Manhattan in Miniature.  As I have said (more than once, twice, or even three times!) Camille Minichino/Margaret Grace/Jean Flowers/Ada Madison is one of my very favorite Cozy Mystery authors. But, since it’s a Christmas themed Cozy, I am waiting until November to read it, hopefully a little later than November 1 >>> if I can wait that long!

I am still spacing my favorite authors between new-to-me Cozy Mystery authors who I am trying. Right now, I’m back to one of my favorite authors: Mary V. Welk. Because I read so many other Cozy authors, I am way behind with my favorite authors’ books. Anyway, I am reading To Kill a King, which is only her third in the Rhodes to Murder Mystery Series. The next one (The Scarecrow Murders) is a Halloween themed Cozy, which I will be reading this Halloween season. I already recommended Mary V. Welk, so rather than repeat myself, I’ll point you to my earlier recommendation: Mystery Books Recommendations – January 2014.

Would you please tell us about the really good Cozy Mysteries you read this month, and please tell us why you liked them so much more than the other Cozies you read? These are the Cozies you think are even better than the others you read this month. The rest of us are always on the hunt for Cozy Mystery authors who write great Cozies! Please list the ones you liked the most at the very top of the list, that way we’ll know those are the ones you liked the best!

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

What really good Cozy Mystery book did you read during September 2015 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:

Ellery Adams: Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery Series

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series

James Anderson: Inspector Wilkins Mystery Series (The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg, book #1)

Margot Arnold: Penny Spring & Sir Toby Glendower Mystery Series

C.C. Benison: Her Majesty Investigates Mystery Series

Simon Brett: Mrs. Pargeter Mystery Series

Deborah Brown: Paradise Mystery Series (Crazy in Paradise, book #1)

Ellen Byron: Cajun Country Mystery Series

Dorothy Cannell: Ellie Haskell Mystery Series

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Cranberry Cove Mystery Series

J.J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & Ellie Grant): Biscuit Bowl Food Truck Mystery Series

Maya Corrigan: Five-Ingredient Mystery Series

Catherine Coulter: FBI thriller Series (The Cove, book #1)

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Coffeehouse Mystery Series

Krista Davis: Paws and Claws Mystery Series

Jana DeLeon: Miss Fortune Mystery Series

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

J. Jefferson Farjeon: Stand Alone mysteries

Eva Gates (aka Vicki Delany): Lighthouse Library Mystery Series

Patrice Greenwood: Wisteria Tearoom Mystery Series (A Fatal Twist of Lemon, book #1)

Janice Hamrick: Jocelyn Shore Mystery Series

Dianne Harman: Cedar Bay Mystery Series (Kelly’s Koffee Shop, book #1)

B.B. Haywood: Candy Holliday Mystery Series

Dolores Johnson: Mandy Dyer Mystery Series

Diane Kelly: Paw Enforcement Mystery Series

Alice Kimberly (aka Cleo Coyle): Haunted Bookshop Mystery Series

Constance & Gwenyth Little: Stand Alone mysteries

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Chili Cook-Off Mystery Series

Karen MacInerney: Dewberry Farm Mystery Series

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

Margaret Maron: Deborah Knott Mystery Series

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

The Mulgray Twins: DJ & Gorgonzola Mystery Series (No Suspicious Circumstances, book #1)

Shirley Rousseau Murphy & Pat J.J. Murphy: Lee Fontana Mystery Series

Linda Reilly: Deep Fried Mystery (Filet of Murder, book #1)

Michael Robertson: The Baker Street Letters Mystery Series (The Baker Street Letters, book #1)

Barbara Ross: Clambake Mystery Series

Ian Sansom: Mobile Library Mystery Series

Charles Todd: Bess Crawford Mystery Series

Diane Vallere: Material Witness Mystery Series

Livia J. Washburn: Fresh-Baked Mystery Series

Mary V. Welk: Rhodes to Murder Mystery Series

Marty Wingate: Potting Shed Mystery Series (The Garden Plot, book #1)

[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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Happy Homicides: Thirteen Cozy Holiday Mysteries

September 27, 2015

A few weeks ago, Joanna Campbell Slan told me about a holiday venture she and twelve other Cozy Mystery authors put together. As you can see, there are several authors with whom we are all familiar!

Happy Homicides: Thirteen Cozy Holiday Mysteries ….. $0.99
Cozy Mystery authors:
Annie Adams
Jenna Bennett
Linda Gordon Hengerer
Joyce and Jim Lavene
Camille Minichino
Neil Plakcy
Sara Rosett
Joanna Campbell Slan
Nancy Jill Thames
Teresa Trent
Nancy Warren
Lois Winston

Here is the description from Amazon:

A huge collection of heartwarming, brain-puzzling, and character-driven traditional mysteries that’ll keep you entertained for hours. (At 213,000 words, this is 627 pages of reading material!) Plus, you can email to get a FREE Bonus File with recipes and holiday craft ideas. Celebrate the holidays with stories by these thirteen bestselling and award-winning authors: Joanna Campbell Slan, Neil Plakcy, Lois Winston, Annie Adams, Jenna Bennett, Nancy Jill Thames, Sara Rosett, Camille Minichino, Nancy Warren, Linda Gordon Hengerer, Joyce and Jim Lavene, and Teresa Trent.

As I have mentioned ump-teen dozen times >>> I love holiday Cozy Mysteries, so this is right up my particular alley!

Here is my page with a whole lot of Christmas mystery books: Christmas Mystery Book List

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Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes, British Television Movie

September 26, 2015

Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes - Dr. Bell & Mr. Doyle As you may have guessed by the title of this entry, Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle: The Dark Beginning of Sherlock Holmes is a fictionalized rendition of how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle came up with one of fiction’s most iconic characters >>> Sherlock Holmes. This movie stars the wonderful Ian Richardson (of the original House of Cards) as Dr. Bell, Doyle’s mentor.

Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle: The Dark Beginning of Sherlock Holmes gives us a small glimpse into Doyle’s life in medical school. ( I was quite surprised by his family’s circumstances.) We are treated to what medical school in the late 1800s might have been like. Women are fighting to be seen as good enough to have the privilege of attending these universities; while it’s almost a given for rich, young men to have a seat in these lecture halls.

Dr. Bell is a medical doctor and professor who is quite different than the other teachers at the university. He doesn’t seem to question having women in his classes nor does he believe in simply teaching the medical students basic information. He has them use their deductive reasoning skills to become the best doctors possible.

Dr. Bell employs Doyle as his research assistant, which becomes an all-consuming, highly rewarding experience. It is this “internship” that Doyle uses as his basis for Sherlock Holmes’ deductive powers. According to the movie, Dr. Bell works at solving murders which the local police are unable to solve. He does so through reading all of the clues, not just the obvious.

Robin Laing gives a very good performance as young Arthur Conan Doyle in this BBC production. The costumes and sets are particularly good. The movie shows us how Sherlock Holmes could definitely have been modeled on Dr. Bell. If you enjoy terrific British made-for-TV movies, Ian Richardson, and Sherlock Holmes, I think you’ll enjoy Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes.

PS. This movie is not available on Netflix or Acorn at this time. (When I wrote this entry, it was available on Netflix in disc format. Apparently they are waiting to re-release it, and have it on their “Save to DVD Queue” mode.)

For more ideas on movies and television shows, be sure to check my TV and Movie page on my site.

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