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Three New Cozy Mystery Series Coming May 2015 – Amanda Flower: Living History Museum, Linda O. Johnston: Barkery & Biscuits, Tracy Kiely: Nic & Nigel

April 4, 2015

Last month I told you about the new Cozy Mystery series that will be starting this month (Two New Cozy Mysteries Starting in April 2015) and now I’m going to tell you about three new Cozy series that will be heading our way in May. All three of these new Cozy Mystery series come to us from established authors on this site.

First up is Amanda Flower, who will be releasing her fifth series this May… the Living History Museum Mystery Series, starting with it’s first book, The Final Reveille. This series will star Kelsey Cambridge, the director of Barton Farm, a living history museum in Ohio. When the relative of one of her museum’s benefactors turns up dead after threatening to have the museum’s funding cut, Kelsey quickly becomes one of the leading suspects, forcing her to solve the murder herself! As already mentioned, Amanda Flower is the author of multiple popular series, including the Appleseed Creek Mystery Series starring a computer specialist in Ohio’s Amish country, the India Hayes Mystery Series starring an Ohio librarian, and (as Isabella Alan) the Amish Quilt Shop Mystery Series… also set in Ohio.

Next is Linda O. Johnston‘s book Bite the Biscuit, the first book in her new Barkery & Biscuits Mystery Series. This series will star canine treat store owner and ex-veterinarian technician, Carrie Kennersly. Carrie’s only just opened up her Barkery, and it’s already making waves, particularly with the owner of another pet supply store nearby… who turns up dead! Unfortunately, Carrie might be suspected, so she’ll need to solve the crime to protect her good name… and her freedom! Linda O. Johnston also writes several other popular series, including the Pet Rescue Mystery Series, starring the operator of a California-based pet rescue shelter, and the Kendra Ballantyne Pet-Sitter Mystery Series, starring an attorney/pet-sitter and her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Lexie.

Finally, Tracy Kiely will be putting out the first book in her second series, the Nic & Nigel Mystery Series. The first entry, Murder with a Twist, will introduce us to Nic and Nigel Martini, as they search for the missing husband of a friend… a task made both easier and more complicated by Nic’s history as a former detective. Tracy Kiely also writes the Elizabeth Parker Mystery Series, starring a far more amateur sleuth.

If you would like to see more new Cozy Mystery series coming our way, be sure to click on this link to go to that page on my site: New Cozy Mystery Book Series.

Also, if you want to see many of the upcoming Cozy Mystery books that will be released, I have lots and lots of them listed on this page: Soon to be Released Mysteries. You may be surprised at how many new Cozy Mysteries are just around the bend!

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Washington D.C., the Metro, “Walkability”…

April 3, 2015

Washington D.C.Our daughter will be moving to Washington D.C. this summer. She will be living there permanently. I remember about the times I moved when I was single, or after my husband and I got married, we did everything by mail and phone calls. Now things have become so easy! The internet has made looking for an apartment almost as easy as just a few clicks.

Our daughter is currently click, click, clicking through D.C.’s different metro (subway) stations, “walkability” ratings, tenant reviews, neighborhood police reports, let’s face it, everything! She is coming up with a list of apartment complexes she thinks look promising. My husband and I are then going to fly out and check out the complexes and their areas. We’ve done this before, but this time we decided that since she will be doing all of her commuting to and from work via the metro, we’re going to do the same thing.

This should be interesting! The last time I was on a subway was in Boston (the “T’ in Boston), and let me tell you, I was a little disillusioned with what I saw going on! Let’s just say that the subway today is a whole lot different than from what you might see in an old black and white movie! (Did they even have subway systems back then?!?) I was surprised to see men and women of all ages sitting on the T while eight-month pregnant women were forced to stand. Hmmm…

Even though our daughter won’t be moving for several months, my husband and I have discussed D.C.’s hot summer months, so we are planning on going during April. When our children were little we lived in Maryland for a while, so this will be a going-home of sorts for us. However, it will be our first trip to neither rent a car nor take our own, so this might prove to be … hmmm… fun. (???)

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May 2015 Mystery Book New Releases

April 1, 2015

The following Mystery Books will be released in May 2015:

Cathy Ace: The Corpse with the Sapphire Eyes (This will be the 5th in the Cait Morgan Mystery Series.)

Donna Ball: Flash (This will be the 1st in the NEW Dogleg Island Mystery Series.)

Jessica Beck (aka Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, Chris Cavender, Casey Mayes, Tim Myers, & D.B. Morgan): Cast Iron Will (This will be the 1st in the NEW Cast Iron Cooking Mystery Series.)

Maeve Binchy: Full House (This will be a stand alone non-mystery short story.)

Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber): Some Like It Witchy (This will be the 5th in the Wishcraft Mystery Series.)

Janet Bolin: Seven Threadly Sins (This will be the 5th in the Threadville Mystery Series.)

Rita Mae Brown: Tail Gait (This will be the 24th in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series.)

Vannetta Chapman: Protected (This will be the 2nd in the Jacobs Family Mystery Series.)

Laura Childs: Ming Tea Murder (This will be the 16th in the Tea Shop Mystery Series.)

Ann Cleeves: Thin Air (This will be the 6th in the Shetland Island Mystery Series.)

Susan Conant: Sire and Damn (This will be the 20th in the Dog Lover’s Mystery Series.)

Gary Corby: Death Ex Machina (This will be the 5th in the Ancient Greecy Mystery Series.)

Kathi Daley: The Curse (This will be the 2nd in the Seacliff High Mystery Series for young adults.) (This is a Halloween themed mystery.)

Evelyn David: The Bride of Lottawatah (This will be the 5th in the Sullivan Investigations Mystery Series.)

Jeffery Deaver: Solitude Creek (This will be the 4th in the Kathryn Dance Mystery Series.)

Hannah Dennison: Deadly Desires at Honeychurch Hall (This will be the 2nd in the Honeychurch Hall Mystery Series.)

Claire Donally: Hiss and Tell (This will be the 4th in the Sunny & Shadow Mystery Series.)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): The Final Reveille (This will be the 1st in the NEW Living History Museum Mystery Series.)

Mae Fox & Amy Lillard: Pattern of Betrayal (This will be the 2nd in the Vineyard Quilt Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth George: The Edge of the Shadows (This will be the 3rd in the young adult Edge of Nowhere Mystery Series.)

Sally Goldenbaum: A Finely Knit Murder (This will be the 9th in the Seaside Knitters Mystery Series.)

John Grisham: Theodore Boone: Fugitive (This will be the 5th in the young adult Theodore Boone Mystery Series.)

Carolyn Haines: Bone to Be Wild (This will be the 15th in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series.) (This will be a Halloween theme mystery.)

Charlaine Harris: Day Shift (This will be the 2nd in the Midnight, Texas Mystery Series.)

Carolyn Hart: Don’t Go Home (This will be the 25th in the Death on Demand Mystery Series.)

Lee Hollis: Death of a Cupcake Queen (This will be the 6h in the Hailey Powell Food & Cocktail Mystery Series.)

J.A. Jance: Stand Down (This will be a J.P. Beaumont Mystery Series novella.)

Linda O. Johnston: Bite the Biscuit (This will be the 1st in the NEW Barkery & Biscuits Mystery Series.)

Tonya Kappes: Checkered Thief (This will be the 3rd in the Laurel London Mystery Series.)

Tracy Kiely: Murder with a Twist (This will be the 1st in the NEW Nic & Nigel Mystery Series.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Killing Weeds (This will be the 8th in the Peggy Lee Garden Mystery Series.)

Alyssa Maxwell: Murder at Beechwood (This will be the 3rd in the Gilded Newport Mystery Series.)

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Farmed and Dangerous (This will be the 3rd in the Local Foods Mystery Series.)

Catriona McPherson: Come to Harm (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Joyce Carol Oates: Jack of Spades (This will be a Stand Alone novel.)

Katherine Hall Page: The Body in the Birches (This will be the 22nd in the Faith Fairchild Mystery Series.)

Nancy J. Parra (aka Nancy Coco): Flourless to Stop Him (This will be the 3rd in the Baker’s Treat Mystery Series.)

James Patterson & Maxine Paetro: 14th Deadly Sin (This will be the book in the Women’s Murder Club Mystery Series.)

James Patterson: Maximum Ride Forever (This will be the 9th in the young adult Maximum Ride Mystery Series.)

Alexander McCall Smith: At the Reunion Buffet (This will be an Isabel Dalhousie non-mystery story.)

Denise Swanson: A Finger in Every Lie (This will be a Stand Alone mystery story.)

Victoria Thompson: Murder on Amsterdam Avenue (This will be the 17th in the Gaslight Mystery Series.)

Rebecca Tope: The Troutbeck Testimony (This will be the 4th in the Lake District Mystery Series.)

Maggie Toussaint: Bubba Done It (This will be the 2nd in the Dreamwalker Mystery Series.)

Elaine Viets: Checked Out (This will be the 14th in the Dead-End Job Mystery Series.)

Since I post these releases a whole month early, here are the April  2015 Mystery Book New Releases.

If you would like to see lots and lots of Cozy Mystery books that are scheduled to be released, 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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Vicki Delany: Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen, Victoria Hamilton: White Colander Crime, Elizabeth Lee: Nuts and Buried, Anne Perry: A Christmas Escape, Jessica Beck: Troubled Treats, & Simon Brett: Blotto, Twinks and the Heir to the Tsar – New Mystery Releases

March 31, 2015

Here is the second part of my entry. As I mentioned I found out about ten new Cozy Mystery book covers. Also, I found Jessica Beck’s book yesterday, which was released a few days ago. I missed it somehow, so I added it to this entry. I’m going to try to convince myself that it’s better late than never…

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.)Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper & Donna Lea Simpson): White Colander Crime (This will be the 5th in the Vintage Kitchen Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Lee (aka Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli): Nuts and Buried (This will be the 3rd in the Nut House Mystery Series.)Anne Perry: A Christmas Escape (This will be the 13th in the Christmas Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Simon Brett: Blotto, Twinks and the Heir to the Tsar (This will be the 6th in the Blotto and Twinks Mystery Series.)

Jessica Beck (aka Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer,Chris Cavender, Casey Mayes, Tim Myers, & D.B. Morgan): Troubled Treats (This will be the 19th in the Donut Shop Mystery Series.)

If you click on this link, it will take you to the page on my site that has all of the Cozy Mystery books that are scheduled to be released, but authors on my Cozy-Mystery site. Soon to be Released Mysteries page.

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