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Undercover Cleaning is Her Game…

So, moving right along with the identification of authors/book titles:

Anita asked us if we could identify this mystery series:

I’m trying to find the name of a mystery series about a single mom that cleans the houses of her rich friends, but she’s in disguise. I keep thinking she drives a VW Beetle and meets a widower with a daughter and then she realizes they dated in high school.

Thanks!

I’m hoping that one of you knows who Anita is searching for. I’ve read several mysteries with cleaning ladies as the sleuths, but this one does not sound familiar to me.

Thank you for your help!

Cozy Mystery Tree Lovers…

Here’s another question from a Cozy Mystery reader. Cheryl asks:

I am trying to find the title of  book I read a few years ago involving a mom and teenage son. The son was “living” in a tree as a tree hugger – helping out for someone else to try to save this tree from being cut down. A body was discovered not far away from this tree. His mother discovered a Petosky stone near the body and knew that the killer was from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or had visited there, as that is the only place the stone is found.
Thank you,
Cheryl

I have to admit that this doesn’t sound at all familiar to me. (Of course, usually as soon as I say something like that, it will predestine that the author be one of my favorites!) If any of you think you might know the title of this tree, please post a comment.   Thank you!

December 2013 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in December 2013:

Victoria Abbot (writing duo Mary Jane Maffini & Victoria Maffini): The Sayers Swindle (This will be the 2nd in the Book Collector’s Mystery Series.)

Sandra Balzo: Murder on the Orient Espresso (This will be the 8th in the Maggy Thorsen Mystery Series.)

Maggie Barbieri: Once Upon a Lie (This will be the 1st in the NEW Maeve Conlon Mystery Series.)

C.C. Benison: Ten Lords A-Leaping (This will be the 3rd in the Father Christmas Mystery Series.)

Jennie Bentley (aka Jenna Bennett & Bente Gallagher): Home for the Homicide (This will be the 7th in the Do It Yourself Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): Home for the Haunting (This will be the 4th in the Haunted Home Renovation Mystery Series.)

Laurie Cass: Lending a Paw (This will be the 1st in the NEW Bookmobile Cat Mystery Series.)

Laura Childs: Tea for Three (This is an omnibus of the first three Tea Shop Mysteries: Death by Darjeeling, Gunpowder Green, & Shades of Earl Grey.)

Judy Clemens: Leave Tomorrow Behind (This will be the 6th in the Stella Crown Mystery Series.)

J.J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & Ellie Grant): Hero’s Journey (This will be a Novella in the Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mystery Series.)

Michael Connelly: The Gods of Guilt (This will be the 5th in the Mickey Haller Mystery Series.)

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Billionaire Blend (This will be the 13th in the Coffeehouse Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Craig (aka Riley Adams & Elizabeth Craig): Quilt Trip (This will be the 3rd in the Southern Quilting Mystery Series.)

Krista Davis: Murder, She Barked (This will be the 1st in the NEW Paws and Claws Mystery Series.)

Carola Dunn: Heirs of the Body (This will be the 21st in the Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series.)

Christopher Fowler: The Invisible Code (This will be the 10th in the Bryant & May Mystery Series.)

Frances Fyfield: Cold to the Touch (This will be the 6th in the Sarah Fortune Mystery Series.) (USA Release)

J.G. Goodhind: The Ghost of Christmas Past (This will be the 8th in the Honey Driver Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Carolyn Hart: Cry in the Night (This will be a Stand Alone Mystery.) (This book was released in e-book format only in ’12.)

Joan Hess: Murder as a Second Language (This will be the 19th in the Claire Malloy Mystery Series.)

Jonnie Jacobs: Lying with Strangers (This will be a Stand Alone Mystery.)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Second-Hand Stiff (This will be the 8th in the Odelia Grey Mystery Series.) (This is a Thanksgiving theme mystery.)

Laura Levine: Killing Cupid (This will be the 12th in the Jaine Austen Mystery Series.) (This is a Valentine theme mystery.)

Liz Lipperman (aka Lizbeth Lipperman): Chicken Caccia-Killer (This will be the 4th in the Clueless Cook Mystery Series.)

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Buttoned Up (This will be the 4th in the Button Box Mystery Series.)

Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini: The Spook Lights Affair (This will be the 4th in the Carpenter & Quincannon, Professional Detective Services Mystery Series.)

Gail Oust: Rosemary and Crime (This will be the 1st in the NEW Piper Prescott Mystery Series.)

Sharon Pape: Sketcher in the Rye (This will be the 4th in the Portrait of Crime Mystery Series.)

Anne Perry: A Christmas Hope (This will be the 11th in Perry’s Christmas mystery novels.)

Ann Purser: Scandal at Six (This will be the 13th in the Lois Meade Mystery Series.)

Paige Shelton: Merry Market Murder (This will be the 6th in the Farmers’ Market Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

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