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Two New Cozy Mystery Series Coming in November 2014

November 2014 will be bringing us two new Cozy Mystery series. Both Kate Carlisle and Diane Vallere will be debuting their sleuths this coming month. As always, upcoming releases can be found at my New Cozy Mystery Book Series page.

First, Kate Carlisle will be releasing A High-End Finish, the first book in her new Fixer-Upper Mystery Series. This series will star Shannon Hammer, a home renovation and repair contractor in a seaside town in northern California. Most of you know that Carlisle writes the popular Bibliophile Mystery Series. Here’s hoping that her new Fixer-Upper sleuth (Shannon Hammer) will be as good at solving mysteries as Bibliophile’s Brooklyn Wainwright is!

The other Cozy Mystery author planning a debut during November of this year is Diane Vallere. Vallere will be releasing the first book in her new Material Witness Mystery Series, titled Suede to Rest. This series will star Polyester “Poly” Monroe, a dress designer and store owner in California. Vallere also writes the Mad for Mod Mystery Series and the Style & Error Mystery Series.

If you would like to see more New Cozy Mystery Series by authors on the Cozy-Mystery site, please click here: New Cozy Mystery Series

Also, if you would like to revisit the entry I wrote about the new Cozy Mystery series some of our favorite authors are bringing to us this month (October 2014) click on this link:

Four New Cozy Mystery Series Coming in October 2014

Christmas Mystery Books being Released during November 2014

Well, November will be upon us soon, and with it we’ll get another batch of holiday themed mystery novels, all of them Christmas-themed this time. We’ll have five new Christmas themed novels, so let’s jump right into it! (Most of you know just how happy “my” holiday Cozy Mysteries make me! Love ’em!)

First, Lynn Cahoon will be releasing If the Shoe Kills , the third book in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series. Though Cahoon only released her first novel earlier this year, she’s already established her Tourist Trap series, starring Jill Gardner. As always, this novel will center around “Coffee, Books, and More,” Jill’s shop. When the unpleasant manager of the unpopular local internship programs turns up dead in his car, everyone seems willing to chalk it up as a suicide – except Jill of course, who will need to get to the (real!) bottom of this case!

 Kathi Daley will be putting out Christmas Cozy, the 11th book in the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series. Zoe’s holiday season is about to take a somewhat grim turn as she goes to visit the Ashton Falls High School Christmas Tree Lot and stumbles across the body of a local teacher. Unfortunately, the lot is run by her best friend, Levi Denton, so she’ll have to work fast to solve this murder in time to insure truly happy holidays! As always, Kathi Daley’s work should include some interesting recipes, presumably Christmas-themed this time around. (Kathi Daley also writes the TJ Jensen Paradise Lake Mystery Series, starring high school teacher and coach, TJ Jensen, and also released the non-mystery Christmas-themed work Road to Christmas Past.)

 J.A. Jance will be releasing a novella in her Ali Reynolds Mystery Series, titled A Last Goodbye. This novella will have a very interesting hook for long-time fans of the Ali Reynolds series, as Ali will be getting married to B. Simpson, her long-time fiance. When a stray miniature dachshund winds up in Ali’s care, it seems like the last thing in the world she needs >>> but as she has trouble returning the stray pet to its owner, she starts wondering if something has been done to her! Hopefully she’ll be able to wrap up the mystery before it interrupts her Christmas wedding! (Jance also writes several other highly popular series, most notably the Joanna Brady Mystery Series, starring an Arizona sheriff, as well as the J. P. Beaumont Mystery Series, starring a Seattle homicide detective.)

Jenn McKinlay‘s next book, On Borrowed Time, will be coming out as well. This will be the fifth book in the Library Lover’s Mystery Series, highlighting the continued adventures of Lindsey Norris, Connecticut-based library director. Christmas is going to be busy this year for Lindsey, as she has a bit of personal trouble to take care of >>> her brother, Jack, has gone missing, forcing her to put all of her other holiday plans out of mind as she tried to find out what has happened to him. (Jenn McKinlay writes a number of other very popular series, including the Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series and the Hat Shop Mystery Series, as well as the Decoupage Mystery Series under the name Lucy Lawrence and the Good Buy Girls Mystery Series as Josie Belle.)

Finally, renowned mystery novelist Anne Perry will be releasing the next in her long-running Christmas Mystery Series, A New York Christmas. As has become custom for Anne Perry’s annual holiday release, A New York Christmas will star a character familiar to her avid readers as a support character from her popular Thomas & Charlotte Pitt Mystery Series, this time Jemima Pitt, Thomas Pitt’s daughter, now 23 years old and visiting America for the marriage of her friend Delphinia. (Anne Perry writes many other series, including the William Monk Mystery Series.)

If you would like to see more Cozy Mystery Christmas-themed books, click on this link to take you to the Christmas Mystery page.

(If you are interested in all sorts of holiday mysteries, click on this link to take you to the Holiday Mystery Book page.)

Also, here are the entries I wrote about the Halloween and Christmas mystery books that will be released during this month – October:

Halloween Mystery Books being Released during October 2014

Christmas Mystery Books being Released during October 2014

Christmas Mystery Books being Released during October 2014 – Part 2

Donald Bain Interview

I am absolutely delighted to tell you that my newest Cozy Mystery Author Interview is with Donald Bain. That’s right!!! THE Donald Bain, “co-author” (with “Jessica Fletcher”) of the Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series.

Over the course of our many months of the monthly Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, Donald Bain’s Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series is one of the most recommended series you all have submitted. That’s saying a lot!

Who doesn’t know (and love!) Jessica Fletcher? She is the epitome of a Cozy Mystery sleuth. I actually used her as an example in my 2006 Cozy Mystery definitions.

The interview was quite insightful for me. I was surprised to see when he started writing Margaret Truman’s Capital Crimes Mystery Series, as well as how Mr. Bain feels about Jessica leaving Cabot Cove. (You’ll have to read the interview, no SPOILERS here!)

Please take a few minuted to read the Donald Bain interview. I think you’ll find it as informative as I do!

Click here for the Donald Bain Interview.

November 2014 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in November 2014:

Ellery Adams (aka Jennifer Stanley, J.B. Stanley, & 1/2 of Lucy Arlington): Lethal Letters (This will be the 6th in the Books by the Bay Mystery Series.)

David Baldacci: The Escape (This will be the 3rd in the Puller Mystery series.)

Jessica Beck (aka Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, Chris Cavender, Casey Mayes, Tim Myers, & D.B. Morgan): Old Fashioned Crooks (This will be the 17th in the Donut Mystery Series.)

Jenna Bennett (aka Jennie Bentley & Bente Gallagher): Dirty Deeds (This will be the 9th in the Savannah Martin Mystery Series.)

Stephen Booth: The Corpse Bridge (This will be the 15th in the Cooper & Fry Mystery Series.)

Rita Mae Brown: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (This will be the 9th in the Fox Hunting Mystery Series.)

Jan Burke: Case Closed (This will be a collection of Jan Burke short stories.)

Lynn Cahoon: If the Shoe Kills (This will be the 3rd in the Tourist Trap Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

JoAnna Carl (aka Eve K. Sandstrom): The Chocolate Clown Corpse (This will be the 14th in the Chocoholic Mystery Series.)

Kate Carlisle: A High-End Finish (This will be the 1st in the NEW Fixer-Upper Mystery Series.)

Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke: The Cinderella Murder (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Michael Connelly: The Burning Room (This will be the 18th in the Harry Bosch Mystery Series.)

Patricia Cornwell: Flesh and Blood (This will be the 22nd in the Kay Scarpetta Mystery Series.) (Not Cozy)

Kathi Daley: Christmas Cozy (This will be the 11th in the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Anthony Eglin: The Alcatraz Rose (This will be the 6th in the English Garden Mystery Series.)

Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg: The Job (This will be the 3rd in the Fox and O’Hare Mystery Series.)

Charles Finch: The Laws of Murder (This will be the 8th in the Charles Lenox Mystery Series.)

Anthea Fraser: Justice Postponed (This will be the 9th in the Rona Parish Mystery Series.)

Lee Goldberg & Janet Evanovich: The Job (This will be the 3rd in the Fox and O’Hare Mystery Series.)

Parnell Hall: Safari (This will be the 19th in the Stanley Hastings Mystery Series.)

Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper): No Mallets Intended (This will be the 4th in the Vintage Kitchen Mystery Series.)

Betty Hechtman: Knot Guilty (This will be the 9th in the Crochet Mystery Series.)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Hell on Wheels (This will be the 9th in the Odelia Grey Mystery Series.)

J.A. Jance: A Last Goodbye (This will be an Ali Reynolds Mystery Series novella.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Dae’s Christmas Past (This will be the 6th in the Missing Pieces Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Rett MacPherson: Sleeping the Churchyard Sleep (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Molly MacRae: Plague by Quilt (This will be the 4th in the Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery Series.)

Mary Marks: Knot in My Backyard (This will be the 2nd in the Martha Rose Quilting Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): On Borrowed Time (This will be the 5th in the Library Lover’s Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Catriona McPherson: A Deadly Measure of Brimstone (This will be the 8th in the Dandy Gilver Mystery Series.)

Tyora Moody: Oven Baked Secrets (This will be the 2nd in the Eugeena Patterson Mystery Series.)

James Patterson: Hope to Die (This will be the 22nd in the Alex Cross Mystery Series.)

Anne Perry: A New York Christmas (This will be the 12th of the Christmas novels.)

R.T. Raichev: The Killing of Olga Klimt (This will be the 9th in the Antonia Darcy and Major Payne Mystery Series.)

Deanna Raybourn: Bonfire Night (This will be a Lady Julia Grey Mystery Series novella.)

Ruth Rendell (aka Barbara Vine): The Girl Next Door (This will be a Stand Alone mystery novel.)

Lisa Scottoline: Betrayed (This will be the 13th in the Rosato & Associates Mystery Series.)

Maggie Sefton: Bloody Politics (This will be the 3rd in the Molly Malone Mystery Series.)

Connie Shelton: Legends Can Be Murder (This will be the 15th in the Charlie Parker Mystery Series.)

Alexander McCall Smith: The Handsome Man’s Deluxe Cafe (This will be the 15th in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series.)

Janice Thompson: Don’t Rock the Boat (This will be the 6th in the Bridal Mayhem Mystery Series.)

Diane Vallere: Suede to Rest (This will be the 1st in the NEW Material Witness Mystery Series.)

Elaine Viets: A Dog Gone Murder (This will be the 10th in the Mystery Shopper Mystery Series.)

To go back to the Cozy Mystery New Book Release page, click here.

Here is the entry I wrote about the mystery book releases of this month – October 2014. If you would like to see it, click on this link:

October 2014 Mystery Book New Releases

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

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