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April 2011 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in April 2011:

Susan Wittig Albert: Mourning Gloria (This will be the in the 19th in the China Bayles Mystery Series…)

Donald Bain & “Jessica Fletcher”: Skating on Thin Ice (This will be the 35th in the Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series…)

David Baldacci: The Sixth Man (This will be the 5th in the Maxwell & King Mystery Series…)

Sandra Balzo: Running on Empty (This will be the 1st in the NEW Main Street Mysteries Series…)

Jessica Beck: Evil Éclairs (This will be the 4th in the Donut Shop Mystery Series…)

Rita Mae Brown: Hiss of Death (This will be the 19th in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series…)

Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Deadly Notions (This will be the 4th in the Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series…)

Dixie Cash: I Can’t Make You Love Me, But I Can Make You Leave (This will be the 7th in the Domestic Equalizers Mystery Series…)

Chris Cavender (aka Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, Tim Myers, & Casey Mayes): A Pizza to Die For (This will be the 3rd in the Pizza Lover’s Mystery Series…)

Carol Higgins Clark: Mobbed (This will be the 14th in the Regan Reilly Mystery Series…)

Mary Higgins Clark: I’ll Walk Alone (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Jane K. Cleland: Deadly Threads (This will be the 6th in the Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series…)

Kate Collins: Night of the Living Dandelion (This will be the 11th in the Flower Shop Mystery Series…)

Michael Connelly: The Fifth Witness (This will be the 4th in the Mickey Haller Mystery Series…)

Lesley Cookman: Murder to Music (This will be the 8th in the Libby Sarjeant Mystery Series…)

E. J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): An Uninvited Ghost (This will be the 2nd in the Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series…)

Jeanne M. Dams: A Dark and Stormy Night (This will be the 10th in the Dorothy Martin Mystery Series…)

Casey Daniels: A Hard Day’s Fright (This will be the 7th in the Pepper Martin Mystery Series…)

Diane Mott Davidson: Crunch Time (This will be the 16th in the Goldy Bear Mystery Series…)

Vicki Doudera: Killer Listing (This will be the 2nd in the Darby Farr Mystery Series…)

“Jessica Fletcher” & Donald Bain: Skating on Thin Ice (This will be the 35th in the Murder, She Wrote Mystery Series…)

Sarah Graves: Knockdown (This will be the 14th in the Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery Series…)

Rosemary Harris: Slugfest (This will be the 4th in the Dirty Business Mystery Series…)

Iris Johansen: Eve (This will be the 11th in the Eve Duncan Mystery Series…)

Virginia Lowell: Cookie Dough or Die (This will be the 1st in the NEW Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery Series…)

Lisa Lutz & David Hayard: Heads You Lose (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Mary Jane Maffini: The Busy Woman’s Guide to Murder (This will be the 5th in the Charlotte Adams Mystery Series…)

Katherine Hall Page: The Body in the Gazebo (This will be 19th the in the Faith Fairchild Mystery Series…)

Anne Perry: Treason at Lisson Grove (This will be the 26th in the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Mystery Series…)

R. T. Raichev: Murder at the Villa Constantine (This will be the 6th in the Antonia Darcy & Major Payne Country House Mystery Series…)

T. Dawn Richard: Par for the Corpse (This will be the in the May List Mystery Series…)

Cynthia Riggs: The Bee Balm Murders (This will be the 10th in the Martha’s Vineyard Mystery Series…)

Ann B. Ross: Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle (This will be the 12th in the Miss Julia Mystery Series…)

Betty Rowlands: Miss Minchin Dies (This will be the 11th in the Sukey Reynolds Mystery Series…)

Lisa Scottoline: Save Me (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Clea Simon: Dogs Don’t Lie (This will be the 1st in the NEW Pru Marlowe, Pet Noir Mystery Series…)

Clea Simon: Grey Zone (This will be the 3rd in the Dulcie Schwartz Mystery Series…)

Julia Spencer-Fleming: One Was a Soldier (This will be the 7th in the Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries Series…)

Leann Sweeney: The Cat, the Lady and the Liar (This will be the 3rd in the Cats in Trouble Mystery Series…)

Maggie Toussaint: On the Nickel (This will be the 2nd in the Cleopatra Jones Mystery Series…)

Lea Wait: Shadows of a Down East Summer (This will be the 5th in the Antique Print Mystery Series…)

Kathryn R. Wall: Jericho Cay (This will be the 11th in the Bay Tanner Mystery Series…)

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An Unexpected Trip to Colorado…

I have been out of town for close to two weeks due to a family medical crisis. Thanks to my husband, your comments have continued to be posted. I am slowly making my way through them, and adding my comments, as well as taking off some of your last names which “got past” my husband.

I had already post-dated the entries that appeared while I was away, but have a few more things that I want to get done soon. I have four authors who I had just added to the site before I left, but have not yet “presented” them to you all, so I will be doing that as soon as I get the April 2011 New Mystery Book Releases page up.

I should be getting everything back to normal soon.

Mom from Musical Family – Motherhood Isn’t a Breeze…

I am always hesitant about posting questions from Cozy Mystery site readers. I’ll tell you why: I’m afraid that I should definitely know the answers, as if they are right there in my brain, but I simply can’t connect with them. I take a while to think the questions through, and try to remember if I have read any mysteries that could possibly fill the bill. It isn’t until I absolutely cannot connect with the answer (in my brain) that I post an entry asking for help. So here goes!

Paula would like to know the following:

Paula:

“… All I can tell you is that the central female figure is from a musical family; has a brother who sings like an angel and becomes an international rock star; and, if I remember rightly, the heroine of the series has some trouble adjusting to motherhood; and her husband is a policeman of upper rank.  Can you help?”

If you think you might have an idea of who this sleuth is (or this sleuth’s  author) then please post a comment. Thank you in advance!

J. A. Jance’s Joanna Brady Mystery Series, Dorothy Simpson’s Luke Thanet Mystery Series, and… ?

Here’s a clue: I am have recently been going through my mail and comments to see if we can get some of these mysteries solved! The last of the Cozy Mystery site readers’ questions is this one from Janie. She would like some to find some new authors to read who are similar to J. A. Jance… well, Jance’s Joanna Brady series. Also, in the same vein as Dorothy Simpson‘s Luke Thanet series.

Janie:

“… J A Jance’s Joanna Brady series… One thing I like about the Joanna Brady series is that you don’t just get to know Sheriff Brady as a sheriff – you also get to know her as a mom, a daughter, a widow, a newlywed, etc. That’s not what each book is about, yet you see the change and progression over time. For the same reason, I loved Dorothy Simpson’s Luke Thanet series. Neither are “cozies,” really, but they are more personal than, say, a police procedural.

Can anyone recommend other mysteries that do this?”

Please post a comment if you have any recommendations. And, as always, thank you in advance!

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