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Two New Cozy Mystery Series, One New Cozy Mystery Holiday Book Coming January 2019

For the beginning of the new year, we can look forward to two new Cozy Mystery Series by established authors, one of which is a Holiday-themed Cozy Mystery entry!

First, Christina Freeburn will be releasing Not a Creature Was Stirring, the first in her new Merry & Bright Handcrafted Mystery Series. Now that her children are all grown, Merry Winters has decided to enjoy her passions of Christmas, crafting, and her family by going on the road in an RV to a Christmas vendor event, but she’s surprised to find her ex-husband aboard the RV already – and even more surprised to find him dead. Now she’ll need to find the real killer to make sure that she can enjoy the holidays decked out in red and green instead of prison-issue orange! Freeburn also writes the Faith Hunter Scrap This Mystery Series, starring a former US army JAG specialist now running a scrapbooking store.

The other new series will be Diane Kelly‘s Dead as a Door Knocker, the first in the House-Flipper Mystery Series. Whitney Whitaker is a house flipper working on a fixer-upper with a problem she hasn’t seen before – a dead body in the flower bed! Suffice to say, that sort of thing doesn’t help property values, so finishing this job will unexpectedly require the clearing up the death. Diane Kelly also writes the Tara Holloway Mystery Series, starring an IRS criminal investigations agent, and the Paw Enforcement Mystery Series, starring a police officer and her K-9 partner.

For more upcoming Cozy Mystery Series, check out the New Cozy Mystery Book Series page on the site. For more Christmas-themed Cozy Mysteries, check out the Christmas Mystery Book List page on the site.

Comments

  1. Since Diane Kelly ended the Tara Holloway series, I am really looking forward to the new one. This probably the first book I will buy in the new year.

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  3. Hmmmmm…now, here’s the question….There’s a cat on the cover of the new Diane Kelly series. Is there really a cat, or have the cover illustrators just cottoned to the fact that there are a LOT of cat-loving cozy readers out there? Regardless, I’m going to give this series a chance. I do enjoy house-flipping TV shows, so why not?

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        • When it comes to Diane Kelly, I can’t stop myself, so I certainly can’t stop you.

          In the Tara Holloway series, the pets did not play much of a roll in the first couple of books, but in later books they did. Since the second series is built around a dog, I would not be surprised if the fur people did play a bigger roll in this series.

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  5. These both sound good. I’m recovering from surgery and am catching up on my cozy mysteries. They truly relax and entertain me. Just finished Shot in the Dark by Cleo Coyle.

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