Three New Cozy Mystery Series Coming October 2017

It looks like October will be another good month for new Cozy Mystery series, with three more series by site authors starting.

First will be Ellery Adams‘s new series, The Secret, Book & Scone Society Mystery Series, which will be starting with The Secret, Book & Scone Society. When bookshop owner Nora Pennington meets a businessman visiting Miracle Springs, North Carolina in hopes that the town’s hot springs and health spas will improve his future, she knows just what books to suggest to him. But before she can offer her reading advice, he’s found dead, and Nora decides to create a society to help discover the truth and help heal other travelers ills, the Secret Book & Scone Society. Adams also writes the Books by the Bay Mystery Series, the Book Retreat Mystery Series, the Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery Series, the Antiques and Collectibles Mystery Series, and the Hope Street Church Mystery Series. Some of these were initially released under the names J.B. Stanley and Jennifer Stanley, though they have since been re-released as Ellery Adams. She also co-wrote the first three Novel Idea Mystery Series under the name Lucy Arlington with Sylvia May, until the series was later taken over by Susan Furlong.

Next up, Ellie Alexander will be releasing Death on Tap, the first in her Sloan Krause Mystery Series. At loose ends after finding her husband cheating on her, Sloan Krause goes to work at the Nitro Brewery in Leavenworth, Washington, a small Bavarian themed town. When a competitor turns up dead in the fermenting tubs, her ex husband turns out to be the primary suspect – to mixed feelings for Sloan, who knows he’s a cheater, but seriously doubts he is a murderer. Alexander is the author of the Bakeshop Mystery Series, and also writes the Pacific Northwest Mystery Series under the name Kate Dyer-Seeley.

Finally, Jessica Ellicott will be starting the Beryl and Edwina Mystery Series with the book Murder in an English Village. Set in the 1920s, American adventuress Beryl Helliwell has decided she needs a bit of peace and quiet for a change, and has decided that the small English hamlet of Walmsley Parva is the perfect place for her to recharge. She ends up lodging with Edwina Davenport, an old school friend hard up for money and eager to take in a lodger – even one a bit more “boisterous” than she might have chosen. Still, it doesn’t take long for old habits to return, and Beryl quickly finds herself wrapped up in another adventure – this one a race to find a murderer before they can strike. This might be the first series under the name Jessica Ellicott, but you might recognize her work under the names Jessie Crockett (the Sugar Grove Mystery Series) and Jessica Estevao (the Change of Fortune Mystery Series).

For these upcoming series and more be sure to check out the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page.