Well, it’s time to once again discuss some of the great upcoming releases we’ll have coming up very soon. This time I’ll be talking about the three new mystery series that will be starting in October.
The first will be Maddie Day‘s Flipped for Murder, the 1st in her new Country Store Mystery Series. In this series, Robbie Jordan leaves her West Coast life and troubles in order to head to the small southern Indiana town of South Lick, reopening a small store as the Pans ‘n Pancakes shop and restaurant. When an unpleasant aide to the mayor ends up dead at her grand opening, Robbie will need to help solve the crime to lift the suspicion falling on her new livelihood! Day also writes the Local Foods Mystery Series and Quaker Midwife Mystery Series as Edith Maxwell and the Speaking of Mystery Mystery Series as Tace Baker.
The next new series starting in October will be Yasmine Galenorn‘s Whisper Hollow Mystery Series starting with the first book, Autumn Thorns. In this novel, Kerris Fellwater, who has inherited her grandmother’s gift for communicating with the dead and the responsibility for laying them to final rest, will try to discover the secret’s of her own mother’s murder, who she had believed had left town. Yasmine Galenorn also writes the Chintz ‘n’ China Mystery Series, starring the owner of a tea room, and the Bath and Body Mystery Series under the name India Ink.
Finally, the third of our new series for October will be Wendy Corsi Staub‘s Nine Lives, the first book in the Lily Dale Mystery Series. This series will star young widowed mother Bella Jordan, who on a detour to a new life in Chicago will end up as an innkeeper in Lily Dale, New York – a town populated largely by mediums! She’ll need to help out and solve the murder while managing the inn, before either moving along to her final destination, or just possibly staying in Lily Dale. This will be the most “Cozy” sounding of Wendy Corsi Staub’s series to date, which also include the Nightwatcher Trilogy of thrillers and the Thriller Trilogy of… well, more thrillers.
As I’m sure many of you already know, all these and more are also listed in the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page on the site.
Sheila in CT says
Hi Danna. Thank you for the info on the 3 new books coming soon. They all look interesting. Yasmine Galenorn’s Autumn Thorn sounds like the TV show Ghost Whisperer. I liked the show so I will give the book a try.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Sheila in CT, I hadn’t thought about it, but I think you’re right! It does sound like the Ghost Whisperer…
LuAnn Braley says
I love being able to feel ‘up on’ soon to be released cozies, thanks to your wonderful site. Thank you!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
LuAnn, you’re welcome!
Shirley F says
Dear Danna;
I like the new way you have done of showing the cozy mysteries…..I just turned 80 in June/15 and then got sick….so wasn’t able to check in your e-mail.
Just finished a new mystery that came out I think he 2013, by Jessica Beck, who wrote the Donut Shop Mystery Series.
The New series 1. was GHOST CAT title Midnight Paws and second was Ghost Cat 2 Bid for Midnight.
I loved the series from the first few pages.
She goes to an estate auction, she plans to pick up a few things for her secondhand store, but somehow her ghost cat Midnight brings one of the late owners to her for help. Summer & her father were murdered and Christy must solve the case…..fun begins. grin.
I am waiting for the third book to come out.
I don’t know if this is a cozy, but was fun reading it. smile
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Shirley F, I’m sorry to hear that you got sick. It looks like you have had a complete recovery, which is great!
Thanks for the Jessica Beck shout-out!
Moonlight says
Isn’t Nine Lives the 6th Lily Dale mystery?
1. Awakening
2. Believing
3. Connecting
4. Discovering
5. In the Blink of an Eye
Same author, same series?
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Moonlight, no, it isn’t the sixth of the Calla/ Lily Dale series. If you read the synopsis of (Nine Lives, you will see “In this warm and witty series debut from New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub), the book is being hailed as the first in a series. I think that Staub is keeping Lily Dale as the location, but is now having Bella Jordan (rather than Calla) be the principal character. (Nine Lives is not being promoted as a young adult mystery, and I believe the Calla/Lily Dale books were a young adult series.)
Hilary says
Like Sheila, I also enjoyed watching Ghost Whisperer, so “Autumn Thorns” sounds appealing.
There’s a fourth new cozy series starting in October- “The Big Chili” by Julia Buckley (Undercover Dish Mysteries)
I also found a new cozy series for this month, “Black Cat Crossing” (Bad Luck Cat Mysteries) by Kay Finch, which was released earlier in the week.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Hilary, thank you for telling us about Julia Buckley‘s new Undercover Dish Mystery Series and Kay Finch‘ Bad Luck Cat Mystery Series.