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(This link will take you to the page on my Cozy Mystery site with many more Holiday Theme lists.)
We Came, We Saw, We Conquered…
Well, I’m not quite sure that we conquered, but we did do a lot of searching. We stayed downtown in New Orleans and drove out to the two areas where we concentrated our search for our daughter’s future apartment/home. She’ll only be in the area for a year, so we want to find a place where she can focus on enjoying the city rather than having to worry about safety. (Actually, being a young adult, I rather doubt she worries about her safety as much as my husband and I do.)
I have mentioned a few times that San Antonio is in a rather constant state of drought. As we headed east on the interstate, we enjoyed the lush springtime green that we have missed seeing for quite a while now. We were treated to magnificent Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrushes (orange), with a sprinkling of pink Primroses (I think that’s what they are called), all of which were constant reminders of Lady Bird Johnson’s Texas beautification project. Thank you, Lady Bird, for a job well done! The flowers are truly sights to be enjoyed by ALL.
We also were happy to see tall, tall, green trees. Out in San Antonio, there are not very many areas where we can enjoy tall, green trees. Our area has many gnarly, short, sort of dark green-leaf oak trees, which is why my husband and I immediately planted six Monterrey Oaks on our lot when we moved here.
As we passed through Houston I thought (very fondly) of when we met my daughter’s college roommate. She was a sweet teenager, ready to take on the world. She is now a married woman living in this bustling city, with her PhD in Petroleum Engineering, working for a large oil company. Brava to her! She just got married, and she looked absolutely radiant in her wedding dress. Where has the time gone?
Oh, I almost forgot, as we drove through Baton Rouge, Louisiana, I was surprised to see a Dalrymple Drive sign. Yes, even spelled the same way as Carola Dunn’s Daisy’s surname. A neat reminder of my very favorite mystery genre.
Three New Cozy Mystery Series Coming in May
I don’t know if any of you have been keeping an eye on the Cozy Mystery site’s new page entitled New Cozy Mystery Book Series, but if you have, you already know that three of our Cozy Mystery authors are embarking on new series during the month of May. Wow! We had three new series during April, and now we have three more Cozy Mystery series to look forward to. Personally, I think that’s pretty neat!
Dorothy Cannell, that’s right, Dorothy Cannell of the very popular Ellie Haskell Mystery Series (The Thin Woman, etc.) is starting the new Florence Norris Mystery Series. Florence is a housekeeper for the very upper-crust Stodmarsh family. She works at Mullings, the country house that has been in their family for three hundred years. The series takes place during the 1930s. Murder at Mullings will be the first in Cannell’s new Florence Norris Mystery Series.
Hannah Dennison of the Vicky Hill Exclusive! Mystery Series is finally back, and after a three year absence she will be bringing us the new Kat Stanford Mystery Series. Kat Stanford was formerly a television celebrity host who now owns the Honeychurch Hall Antique Shop in England. Kat and her mother, Iris, had been planning on opening a fabulous antique shop, however Iris bought a shabby, old carriage house on a country estate that is not in a good location for an antique shop. Besides all of this bad news, Kat is discovering she doesn’t know everything there is to know about her mother. Murder at Honeychurch Hall is the first of the Kat Stanford Mystery Series.
Mary Ellen Hughes, the author of the Craft Corner Mystery Series as well as the Maggie Olenski Mystery Series, will be giving us the new Pickled and Preserved Mystery Series. This series takes place in Cloverdale, a small town in New York. Piper Lamb is the owner of Piper’s Picklings, a shop which specializes in pickels and preserves. Piper is given a great opportunity to showcase her pickles at the Cloverdale Fair, but instead of highlighting her pickles, she ends up having to highlight her sleuthing skills.The Pickled Piper is the first mystery in the Pickled and Preserved Mystery Series.
I don’t have any new Holiday Cozy Mysteries to tell you about this month, but I believe there are a couple I’ll be telling you about next month.
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May 2014 Mystery Book New Releases
The following Mystery Books will be released in May 2014:
Mike Befeler: Nursing Homes Are Murder (This will be the 6th in the Paul Jacobson Geezer-Lit Mystery Series.)
Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber): The Goodbye Witch (This will be the 4th in the Wishcraft Mystery Series.)
Lawrence Block: Borderline (This will be a Stand Alone.)
Mollie Cox Bryan: Scrappy Summer (This will be a Cumberland Creek Mystery novella.)
Dorothy Cannell: Murder at Mullings (This will be the 1st in the NEW Florence Norris Mystery Series.)
Clive Cussler & Graham Brown: Ghost Ship (This will be the 12th in the NUMA Files Series.)
Kathi Daley: Maui Madness (This will be the 7th in the Zoe Donovan Mystery Series.)
Kathi Daley: Bikinis in Paradise (This will be the 3rd in the TJ Jensen Paradise Lake Mystery Series.)
Jeffery Deaver: The Skin Collector (This will be the 11th in the Lincoln Rhyme Mystery Series.)
Hannah Dennison: Murder at Honeychurch Hall (This will be the 1st in the NEW Honeychurch Hall Mystery Series.)
Claire Donally: Last Licks (This will be the 3rd in the Sunny & Shadow Mystery Series.)
Kate Ellis: The Shroud Maker (This will be the 18th in the Wesley Peterson Mystery Series.)
Sally Goldenbaum: Murder in Merino (This will be the 8th in the Seaside Knitters Mystery Series.)
Kerry Greenwood: Murder and Mendelssohn (This will be the 21st in the Phryne Fisher Mystery Series.)
Carolyn Haines: Booty Bones (This will be the 14th in the Sarah Book Delaney Mystery Series.)
Charlaine Harris: Midnight Crossroad (This will be the 1st in the NEW Midnight, Texas Mystery Series.)
Carolyn Hart: Death at the Door (This will be the 24th in the Death on Demand Bookstore Mystery Series.)
Mary Ellen Hughes: The Pickled Piper (This will be the 1st in the NEW Pickled and Preserved Mystery Series.)
Maddy Hunter: Fleur de Lies (This will be the 9th in the Passport to Peril Mystery Series.)
Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant): Lethal Lily (This will be the 6th in the Peggy Lee Garden Mystery Series.)
Lizbeth Lipperman (aka Liz Lipperman): Jailhouse Glock (This will be the 2nd in the Dead Sister Talking Mystery Series.)
Karen MacInerney: Death Runs Adrift (This will be the 6th in the Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series.)
Edith Maxwell (aka Tace Baker): ‘Til Dirt Us Part (This will be the 2nd in the Local Foods Mystery Series.)
Susan McBride: To Helen Back (This will be the 1st in the NEW River Road Mystery Series.)
Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Death of a Mad Hatter (This will be the 2nd in the Hat Shop Mystery Series.)
Susan McBride: To Helen Back (This will be the 1st in the NEW River Road Mystery Series.)
Catriona McPherson: The Day She Died (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)
Laura Morrigan: A Tiger’s Tale (This will be the 2nd in the Call of the Wilde Mystery Series.)
Katherine Hall Page: Small Plates: Short Fiction (This will be a collection of mystery stories – including Faith Fairchild and Stand Alone mysteries.)
Nancy J. Parra (aka Nancy Coco): Murder Gone A-Rye (This will be the 2nd in the Baker’s Treat Mystery Series.)
James Patterson & Maxine Paetro: Unlucky 13 (This will be the 13th in the Women’s Murder Club Mystery Series.)
Cate Price: A Dollhouse to Die For (This will be the 2nd in the Deadly Notions Mystery Series.)
Barbara Ross: Boiled Over (This will be the 2nd in the Maine Clambake Mystery Series.)
Michele Scott: Dark Harmony (This will be the 2nd in the Vivienne Taylor Horse Lover’s Mystery Series.)
Sarah Strohmeyer: The Secrets of Lily Graves (This will be a Stand Alone mystery for Young Adults.)
Victoria Thompson: Murder in Murray Hill (This will be the 16th in the Gaslight Mystery Series.)
Rebecca Tope: Trouble in the Cotswolds (This will be the 12th in the Thea Osborne Cotswolds Mystery Series.)
Elaine Viets: Catnapped! (This will be the 13th in the Dead-End Job Mystery Series.)
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(These are the mysteries by authors who are currently on the Cozy Mystery site.)
