Soon to be Released Mysteries Page is All Caught Up!
It’s been rather hectic around here this past week, but since our daughter headed out to see her last year’s work place boss and friends this morning, I’ve been playing catch-up on my computer. I’ve been getting my Soon to be Released Mysteries page all caught up. I just finished updating that page, as well as all of the authors’ pages who have new mysteries coming out in the near future. Whew! I found a whole lot of new Cozy Mystery releases! (And, when I say “a whole lot” that’s exactly what I mean!)
As you can see, Sally Goldenbaum will be releasing A Finely Knit Murder, her 9th Seaside Knitters mystery, which looks like it will be a fun read. >>> I would have had my tech guy (aka my husband) teach me how to put the title for the book under the picture, but he’s napping. (Of course, since his techno-help is free to me, I can’t complain about a few naps here and there.)
I have been posting some of the new releases that I have found over on my Facebook page. I think I’m getting the hang of it over there. Well, at least I’m sort of getting the hang of it! This reminds me, I have been meaning to thank ALL of you for “liking” my Cozy Mystery page over on Facebook. I’m still learning the ropes, so to speak, but people have been so kind to me over there. Thank you, ALL!
Getting back to what I’ve been up to while searching around the internet for new Cozy Mystery releases, I have found two new Cozy Mystery series that will be starting in 2015 >>> Susan Furlong‘s (aka Lucy Arlington) Georgia Peach Mystery Series and Peg Cochran‘s (aka Meg London) Cranberry Cove Mystery Series. Both of them look really good to me.
Anyway, while updating the Soon to be Released Mysteries page, I posted a few of the new Cozies over on my Facebook page. And then, since I seem to never feel complete without worrying about something or other, I started feeling guilty about spending all my time on my Facebook page, while sort of ignoring my Cozy-Mystery blog page. Good grief! (My husband would ask me: “When don’t you feel guilty about something or other?”)
Again, thank you, ALL, who have liked my Facebook page, and also, thank you, ALL, who participate in the blog area. I truly feel like we have a Cozy Mystery community going on over here!
Mystery Book Recommendations – December 2014
I know this is a very busy time of year for a lot of us, but I wonder if you could find the time to tell us about an extremely good Cozy Mystery book you read during December. Also, please tell us why you consider this Cozy to be so good that it stands out from the rest of the Cozies you read during the month. Please only tell us about the Cozies that were much better than the rest of the other Cozy Mystery books you read during December. Of course, if you read only one or two Cozy Mysteries this month, and liked both of them a lot, then please tell us about them.
I’m going to start by saying I’m currently in the middle of an Inspector Wexford mystery by Ruth Rendell. I know he’s an inspector, so he doesn’t qualify for the amateur sleuth category, but I think of these mysteries as more Cozy à la Agatha Christie style than police procedural. Rather than write the reason for my recommendation, I will refer you to two entries I wrote about why I like Ruth Rendell’s Inspector Wexford mysteries so much:
Ruth Rendell: From Doon with Death, Reginald Wexford, Revisited
There’s a reason the Crime Writers’ Association (British) added two of Ruth Rendell’s books to their Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time and the Mystery Writers of America added one of her mysteries to their Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list!
[As usual, I ask that you don’t tell us about the mystery books you read that you didn’t like.]
What terrific Cozy Mystery book(s) did you read during December 2014 that you think the rest of us would definitely enjoy reading, and why did you enjoy it (them)?
Here are the current recommended books who some of you have read and recommended this past month:
Victoria Abbott (Mary Jane Maffini & Victoria Maffini): Book Collector Mystery Series
Isabella Alan (aka Amanda Flower): Amish Quilt Shop Mystery Series
Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series
Donald Bain: Capital Crimes Mystery Series
Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): Haunted Home Renovation Mystery Series
Rhys Bowen: Royal Spyness Mystery Series
Simon Brett: Fethering Mystery Series
Duffy Brown: Cycle Path Mystery Series
Rita Mae Brown: Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series
Molly Cox Bryan: Cumberland Creek Mystery Series
Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib): Key West Food Critic Mystery Series
Lynn Cahoon: Tourist Trap Mystery Series
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley: No Case for the Police
Shelley Costa: Miracolo Mystery Series
Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Coffeehouse Mystery Series
Kathi Daley: Zoe Donovan Mystery Series
Evelyn David: Ghosts of Lottawatah Mystery Series
Krista Davis: Domestic Diva Mystery Series
Cyril Hare: An English Murder (Stand Alone)
Sherry Harris: Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery Series (Tagged for Death – book #1)
Carolyn Hart: Bailey Ruth Ghost Mystery Series
Betty Hechtman: Crochet Mystery Series
Lee Hollis: Hayley Powell Food & Cocktail Mystery Series
Maria Hudgins: Lacy Glass Archaeology Mystery Series
Julie Hyzy: White House Chef Mystery Series
Miranda James (aka Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Dean James): Southern Ladies Mystery Series
Miranda James (aka Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Dean James): Cats in the Stacks Mystery Series
Diane Kelly: Tara Holloway Death and Taxes Mystery Series
Sofie Kelly (aka Sofie Ryan): Magical Cats Mystery Series
Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Retired Witches Mystery Series
Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Pet Psychic Mystery Series
Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Renaissance Faire Mystery Series
T.C. LoTempio: Nick and Nora Mystery Series (Meow If It’s Murder – book #1)
Charlotte MacLeod (aka Alisa Craig): Peter Shandy Mystery Series
Susan Elia MacNeal: Maggie Hope Mystery Series
Rose Pressey: A Haunted Vintage Mystery (If You’ve Got It, Haunt It – book #1)
Ann Purser: Lois Meade Mystery Series
Spencer Quinn (aka Peter Abrahams): Chet and Bernie Mystery Series
Hannah Reed (aka Deb Baker): Scottish Highlands Mystery Series
Ruth Rendell: Inspector Wexford Mystery Series
Ruth Rendell: The Girl Next Door
Connie Shelton: Samantha Sweet 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.]
♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦
P.S. While I try to respond to all of the comments that are made on the Cozy Mystery blog, I generally don’t respond to the comments on these monthly recommendation entries.
Merry Christmas to ALL!
I hope ALL of you are having a safe, happy, and Merry Christmas. We are spending Christmas right here at home with both of our children. It will be a quiet day for us.
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!“
