The following Mystery Books will be released in November 2012:
Ellery Adams (aka Jennifer Stanley, J. B. Stanley, & ½ of Lucy Arlington): Written in Stone (This will be the 4th in the Books by the Bay Mystery Series.)
Donald Bain: Margaret Truman’s Experiment in Murder (This will be the 17th in the Capital Crimes Mystery Series.)
David Baldacci: The Forgotten (This will be the 2nd in the John Puller Series.)
Jessica Beck: A Deadly Beef (This will be the 2nd in the Classic Diner Mystery Series.)
Rhys Bowen: The Twelve Clues of Christmas (This will be the 6th in the Royal Spyness Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)
Rhys Bowen: Masked Ball at Broxley Manor (This is a Royal Spyness prequel novella. It was actually released on Oct. 2.)
Jacklyn Brady (aka Sherry Lewis): Arsenic and Old Cake (This will be the 3rd in the Piece of Cake Mystery Series.)
Ali Brandon (aka Diane A.S. Stuckart): A Novel Way to Die (This will be the 2nd in the Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series.)
Rita Mae Brown: Fox Tracks (This will be the 8th in the Sister Jane Arnold Mystery Series.)
Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Let It Sew (This will be the 7th in the Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)
Laura Childs: Stake & Eggs (This will be the 4th in the Cackleberry Club Mystery Series.)
Alys Clare: The Song of the Nightingale (This will be the 14th in the Hawkenlye Mystery Series.)
Kate Collins: Nightshade on Elm Street (This will be the 13th in the Flower Shop Mystery Series.)
Michael Connelly: The Black Box (This will be the 17th in the Harry Bosch Mystery Series.)
Susan Rogers Cooper: Dead Weight (This will be the 10th in the E. J. Pugh Mystery Series.)
Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Holiday Buzz (This will be the 12th in the Coffee House Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.) (Actually, December 4)
Laura DiSilverio (aka Lila Dare & Ella Barrick): Swift Run (This will be the 3rd in the Charlie Swift Mystery Series.)
Janet Evanovich: Notorious Nineteen (This will be the 19th in the Stephanie Plum Mystery Series.)
Charles Finch: A Death in the Small Hours (This will be the 6th in the Charles Lenox Mystery Series.)
Betty Hechtman: If Hooks Could Kill (This will be the 7th in the Crochet Mystery Series.)
Lee Hollis: Death of a Country Fried Redneck (This will be the 2nd in the Hailey Powell Food & Cocktail Mystery Series.)
Kay Hooper: The First Prophet (This will be the 1st in the NEW Bishop Files Series.)
Kate Kingsbury (aka Rebecca Kent & Allison Kingsley): The Clue Is In the Pudding (This will be the 8th in the Special Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)
Margaret Maron: The Buzzard Table (This will be the 19th in the Deborah Knott Mystery Series.)
Cricket McRae (aka Bailey Cates): Deadly Row to Hoe (This will be the 6th in the Home Crafting Mystery Series.)
Marcia Muller: Looking for Yesterday (This will be the 31st in the Sharon McCone Mystery Serie.)
Katy Munger (aka Gallagher Gray & Chaz McGee): Angel Among Us (This will be the 4th in the Dead Detective Mystery Series.)
Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Cats Bearing Gifts (This will be the 18th in the Joe Grey Cat Mystery Series.)
James Patterson: Merry Christmas, Alex Cross (This will be the 19th in the Alex Cross Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)
Deanna Raybourn: Silent Night: A Lady Julia Christmas Novella (This will be a Christmas theme novella, after the 5th in the Lady Julia Mystery Series.)
Elaine Viets: Murder is a Piece of Cake (This will be the 8th in the Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper Mystery Series.)
Penny Warner: The Haunted Lighthouse (This will be the 2nd in the children’s Code Buster Club Mystery Series.)
Livia J. Washburn: Wedding Cake Killer (This will be the 7th in the Fresh-Baked Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)
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I have received a few comments and letters asking for help in coming up with mystery books that don’t focus on murders. I know, I know, the first thing I also think of when thinking of a mystery novel is… death, and that’s death – as in not natural! But when you think of it, there are all sorts of things that could be the basis of a mystery book: stealing, forging, cheating, cooking… well not really cooking as in the culinary theme sense – but definitely poisoning – but that usually ends in murder, which this theme is NOT about!
I am back from beautiful Yellowstone, just in time to ask you all if you have any really good Cozy Mystery recommendations this month. These authors should be authors who you read this month, and found them to be so good, that you just can’t keep them to yourself. They are authors who you would like the rest of us to find out about, authors who weave such wonderful Cozy Mystery books, that you simply have got to give them great, big shout outs. But, please don’t just list their names, let us know WHY you enjoyed these authors. Your reasons are what make these author recommendations so appealing to the rest of us.