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Laura Childs Interview – April 2014

Click here for the Interview with Laura Childs page.

I recently decided to try adding Cozy Mystery authors’ interviews as a semi-regular feature to the Cozy Mystery site. When I started thinking about this, I made up a tentative list of authors who I thought would be people from whom you all would enjoy hearing. I wanted to resume my author interviews with an author who you all have recommended many times on the monthly Cozy Mystery book recommendations lists. I thought best selling Laura Childs would be an ideal interviewee.

As most of you know, Ms. Childs is the author of three best selling series: the Tea Shop Mystery Series, the Scrapbooking Mystery Series, and the Cackleberry Club Mystery Series.

I want to publicly thank Laura Childs for providing this interview. I hope you all enjoy it!

Click here for the Interview with Laura Childs page.

P.S. Don’t forget to enter the Laura Childs Giveaway!

P.P.S. I also want to thank the Cozy Mystery readers who helped me come up with the questions I asked Ms. Childs. Thank you!

Laura Childs Giveaway – Enter Now!

***** Sorry, the Laura Childs Giveaway is officially over. Thanks for your participation.*****

As I have mentioned, best selling mystery author Laura Childs has graciously offered to give away four of her latest mystery books. She is providing two inscribed copies each of Eggs in a Casket and Steeped in Evil.

For a chance to win one of these four books, all you need to do is send an email to the following address:

giveaway@cozy-mystery.com

I’ll be accepting emails until 9:00 AM on Monday, May 12, 2014. After the contest closes, I’ll use Random.org to choose the four winners.

Only one entry per person, please. You are not required to write any content in the email. (I will not be responding to the entry emails.) The giveaway is limited to USA residents.

Good luck!

***** Sorry, the Laura Childs Giveaway is officially over. Thanks for your participation.*****

Malice Domestic Convention 2014 – 2013 Agatha Awards

Well, I guess we know where most of our favorite Cozy Mystery authors are right now, and what they are doing this weekend! That’s right, the 26th Malice Domestic Convention is underway right now in Bethesda, Maryland.

I have often said that out of all of the awards that are given to mystery authors/books, the Agatha Awards are by far the Coziest of Cozy! And, those are the very same awards that are being handed out this weekend at the 26th Malice Domestic Convention. (The Agatha Awards are so Cozy that they are actually tea pots that are inscribed!)

This is where some of our very favorite authors first came to our attention, either having been nominated or having won an award for his/her first mystery novel. If you take a look at the Agatha Awards Best First Novels page, you will (no doubt) recognize a lot of the authors. It seems like a lot of our favorite Cozy Mystery authors started winning awards right here.

Next take a look at the Agatha Awards Best Novel page. Yow! You will see more of our favorite Cozy Mystery authors on this page! Also, in 2011 they began giving the Agatha Awards Best Historical Novel awards. I can’t imagine why it took so long for them to add this category, but I’m certainly glad they did!

I have already listed the authors and their nominated mystery books on these pages. I’ll be posting the winners soon… very soon!

Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!

June 2014 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in June 2014:

Catherine Aird: Dead Heading (This will be the 24th in the Inspector Sloan Mystery Series.)

Isabella Alan (aka Amanda Flower): Murder, Simply Stitched (This will be the 2nd in the Amish Quilt Shop Mystery Series.)

Hannah Alexander: Collateral Damage (This will be a Love Inspired Suspense mystery.)

Mary Kay Andrews (aka Kathy Hogan Trocheck): Save the Date (This will be a Stand Alone. Not a mystery.)

Donald Bain: Lights Out! (This will be a Stand Alone thriller mystery.)

David Baldacci: FaceOff (Anthology with Best Selling Mystery Authors – Including: Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Linda Fairstein, edited by David Baldacci)

Janet Bolin: Night of the Living Thread (This will be the 4th in the Threadville Mystery Series.)

Rita Mae Brown: Nine Lives to Die (This will be the 23rd in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series.)

Nancy Bush: I’ll Find You (This will be a Stand Alone – I think.)

Kate Carlisle: The Book Stops Here (This will be the 9th in the Bibliophile Mystery Series.)

Joelle Charbonneau: Graduation Day (This will be the 3rd in the Testing Mystery Series for Young Adults.)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Razing the Dead (This will be the 5th in the Museum Mystery Series.)

Hy Conrad: Mr. Monk Is Open for Business (This will be the 18th in the Mr. Monk Mystery Series.)

Amanda Cooper (aka Victoria Hamilton): Tempest in a Teapot (This will be the 1st in the NEW Teapot Collector Mystery Series.)

Shelley Costa: Basil Instincts (This will be the 2nd in the Miracolo Mystery Series.)

Isis Crawford (aka Barbara Block): A Catered Fourth of July (This will be the 10th in the Mystery with Recipes Mystery Series.) (This is a Fourth of July theme mystery.)

Krista Davis: The Diva Wraps It Up (This will be the 8th in the Domestic Diva Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Christine DeSmet: Hot Fudge Frame-Up (This will be the 2nd in the Fudge Shop Mystery Series.)

Janet Evanovich: Top Secret Twenty-one (This will be the 21st in the Stephanie Plum Mystery Series.)

Linda Fairstein: Terminal City (This will be the 16th in the Alex Cooper Mystery Series.)

Shelley Freydont: Independence Slay (This will be the 3rd in the Celebration Bay Mystery Series.) (This is a Fourth of July theme mystery.)

Frances Fyfield: Playing With Fire (This will be the 7th in the Sarah Fortune Mystery Series.) (I think it’s a novel, but it might be a novella.)

Susanna Gregory (aka 1/2 of Simon Beaufort): Death of a Scholar (This will be the 20th in the Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew Mystery Series.)

Martha Grimes: Vertigo 42 (This will be the 23rd in the Richard Jury Mystery Series.)

April Henry: The Body in the Woods (This will be the 1st in the NEW Young Adult Point Last Seen Mystery Series.)

April Henry & Lis Wiehl: A Deadly Business (This will be the 2nd in the Mia Quinn Mystery Series.)

Victoria Houston: Dead Lil’ Hustler (This will be the 14th in the Loon Lake Fishing Mystery Series.)

Maria Hudgins: Death in an Ivory Tower (This will be the 5th in the Dotsy Lamb Mystery Series.)

Julie Hyzy: Inaugural Parade (This is a White House Chef omnibus containing books 1-3: State of the Onion, Hail to the Chef, & Eggsecutive Orders)

J.  A. Jance: The Old Blue Line (This will be a Joanna Brady novella.)

Diane Kelly: Paw Enforcement (This will be the 1st in the NEW Megan Luz Mystery Series.)

Amanda Lee (aka Gayle Trent): Thread End (This will be the 7th in the Embroidery Mystery Series.)

Anna Loan-Wilsey: A Sense of Entitlement (This will be the 3rd in the Hattie Darvish Mystery Series.)

Susan Elia MacNeal: The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent (This will be the 4th in the Maggie Hope Mystery Series.) (Actually July 1)

Nancy J. Parra (aka Nancy Coco): Engaged in Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW Perfect Proposals Mystery Series.)

James Patterson & David Ellis: Invisible (This will be a Stand Alone.)

James Patterson & Chris Tebbetts: Save Rafe! (This will be the 3rd in the Middle School Series.)

Deanna Raybourn: Twelfth Night (This will be a Lady Julia Grey Mystery Series novella.) (This is a Christmas mystery novella.)

Larissa Reinhart: Death in Perspective (This will be the 4th in the Cherry Tucker Mystery Series.)

Emilie Richards: No River Too Wide (This is not a mystery.)

Maggie Sefton: Yarn Over Murder (This will be the 12th in the Knitting Mystery Series.)

Aimée Thurlo: Undercover Warrior (This will be a Stand Alone mystery.)

Nicola Upson: The Death of Lucy Kyte (This will be the 5th in the Josephine Tey Mystery Series.)

Jill Paton Walsh: The Late Scholar (This will be the 4th in the Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane Mystery Series.)

Lis Wiehl & April Henry: A Deadly Business (This will be the 2nd in the Mia Quinn Mystery Series.)

Lauren Willig: That Summer (This will be a Stand Alone Mystery.)

Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs Bundle #4 (This omnibus will include book #9 Elegy for Eddie & book #10 Leaving Everything Most Loved)

Steven Womack & Wayne McDaniel: Resurrection Bay (This will be a Stand Alone.) (This is not Cozy.)

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

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

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