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May 2012 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in May 2012:

Madelyn Alt: In Charm’s Way (This will be th 8th in the Bewitching Mystery Series.) (This is a Halloween theme mystery.) (Amazon has it listed as releasing on May 1, we’ll see…)

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Defends Her Own (This will be the 30th in the Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series.)

Bailey Cates (aka Cricket McRae): Brownies and Broomsticks (This will be the 1st in the NEW Magical Bakery Mystery Series.)

Laura DiSilverio (aka Lila Dare & Ella Barrick): All Sales Fatal (This will be the 2nd in the Mall Cop Mystery Series.)

Sally Goldenbaum: A Fatal Fleece (This will be the 6th in the Seaside Knitters Mystery Series.)

Sarah Graves: Dead Level (This will be the 15th in the Home Repair is Homicide Mystery Series.)

Beth Groundwater: Wicked Eddies (This will be the 2nd in the RM Outdoor Adventures Mystery Series.) (RM stands for Rocky Mountain.)

Dorothy Howell: Tote Bags and Toe Tags (This will be the 5th in the Haley Randolph Mystery Series.) (Actually, June 1)

Sofie Kelly: Copycat Killing (This will be the 3rd in the (Magical Cats Mystery Series.)

Catriona McPherson: Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder (This is the 6th in the Dandy Gilver Mystery Series. This is the first USA edition.)

Amy Patricia Meade: Don’t Die Under the Apple Tree (This will be the 1st in the NEW Rosie the Riveter Mystery Series.)

Katherine Hall Page: The Body in the Boudoir (This will be the 20th in the Faith Fairchild Mystery Series.)

James Patterson & Maxine Paetro: 11th Hour (This will be the 11th in the Women’s Murder Club Mystery Series.)

Ann Purser: The Wild Wood Enquiry (This will be the 3rd in the Ivy Beasley Mystery Series.)

Sarah R. Shaber: Louise’s Gamble (This will be the 2nd in the Louise Pearlie Mystery Series.)

Terri Thayer: Monkey Wrench (This will be the 4th in the Quilting Mystery Series.)

Victoria Thompson: Murder on Fifth Avenue (This will be the 14th in the Gaslight Mystery Series.)

Elaine Viets: Final Sail (This will be the 11th in the Dead-End Job Mystery Series.)

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Your Monthly Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations Are Ruining My Good Intentions!

Your monthly mystery book recommendations that you all have been telling us about have been terrific! So terrific, in fact, that I have now got a TBR list accumulating on my Kindle!

When I first got my Kindle for Christmas, I decided that I wouldn’t have a TBR “bookshelf” like I do for my “real” books. I have so many books in my bedroom’s bookshelf, that I decided I’d prefer to buy my Kindle mysteries after I finish reading one, rather than accumulate them.

Well, after reading your March recommendations, I bought six new Kindle books, to add to the five I bought after reading your February recommendations. Good grief! Here I go again, accumulating more books!

I just finished a Cozy Mystery book that one of you recommended, but I don’t think this author is going to be making my “favorite authors” list. I’m just not sure I like the main sleuth enough to follow her through several more books in this particular Cozy Mystery series. (I’m not trying to be “coy”>>> but you know how I feel about posting negative remarks.) There is just nothing that makes me want to spend more time with the sleuth. I have to admit that the only reason I finished (by “finished” I mean “skimmed through to the end”) the book is because I didn’t absolutely “hate” the sleuth, just didN’T like her.

Anyway, next month, when I accumulate the Monthly Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations for April, I am going to absolutely refuse to get any more Kindle books, and will simply make a list of the authors who look really interesting to me. At least, that will be my good intention…

Happy April!

“April come she will 
When streams are ripe and swelled with rain;“

Welcome to April! I can’t think of a better way to begin the month, than listening to Paul Simon’s April Come She Will song.

I remember my older sister had Simon & Garfunkel’s Sounds of Silence album (yes, I said “album”!!!) and I absolutely loved listening to it. (Thus my Peter, Paul and Mary enjoyment… along with the Cowsills!)

My older brother, on the other hand, brought “hard rock” into our home. Rolling Stones were BIG with him. So I sort of benefited from both of my older siblings’ musical preferences. From one end of the (folk music) spectrum to the hardest of the hard side. (Of course, the Rolling Stones of way back then were anything but “hardest” compared to today’s “hardest of the hard side”!)

Anyway, rather than take the April Fools stance for today, I decided to go back to my WAY back days, to the days when listening to my older sister’s and brother’s music was simply a way of life. So, Happy April, and

“April come she will 
When streams are ripe and swelled with rain;“

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