{"id":19412,"date":"2014-11-03T16:46:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T22:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=19412"},"modified":"2017-08-01T16:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:26:54","slug":"kate-kingsbury-special-pennyfoot-hotel-christmas-mystery-series-released-during-past-novembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/kate-kingsbury-special-pennyfoot-hotel-christmas-mystery-series-released-during-past-novembers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Kingsbury Special Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas Mystery Series Released during Past Novembers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goodness gracious, it’s only the beginning of November and one of my holiday traditions has already bit the dust! This year will be the first year since 2003 without a Special Pennyfoot Hotel mystery<\/strong>. A Christmas-themed series that has been released annually, Kate Kingsbury<\/strong><\/a>‘s series has become a regular November release every year for over a decade<\/strong>, though there was a two year gap after the first release when she didn’t put out a Christmas book.<\/p>\n

The Special Pennyfoot Hotel holiday series began as a spin-off from the main Pennyfoot Hotel mystery series, Kate Kingsbury’s original series. Published in 2003, No Clue at the Inn<\/strong><\/em><\/a> was a continuation of the characters and setting, which had been shelved since 1999 with the final Pennyfoot Hotel release. (I wanted to post these covers since I think they are so beautiful.\u00a0Shrouds of Holly<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is the 3rd in this Christmas Cozy Mystery series, and Decked with Folly<\/em><\/a> is the 5th.)<\/p>\n

Kate Kingsbury is still putting out books, of course, though she isn’t using the name Kate Kingsbury any more. Instead, her new series, the Raven’s Nest Bookstore Mystery Series,<\/strong> is published under the name Allison Kingsley<\/strong><\/a>. I don’t know why she decided to change the name she publishes under, as my understanding is that the Pennyfoot holiday series continued to be well-received and popular with her fans. (Also, I should mention that she wrote the Bellehaven House Mystery Series<\/strong> as Rebecca Kent<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n

So, as I said at the beginning, this will be the first November in years without a Cozy Christmas \u00a0Pennyfoot Hotel mystery<\/strong>. It seems like a strange thing to get a bit sad about, but I feel like the month will be a bit different without what had sort of become a tradition for me.<\/p>\n

Do any of you happen to share my tradition of curling up before the fire (well, leave out the fire part here in San Antonio!) with a good annual holiday mystery? Is there another holiday tradition that you’re fond of that you’ve had to let go of in recent years? As always, I appreciate all comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goodness gracious, it’s only the beginning of November and one of my holiday traditions has already bit the dust! This year will be the first year since 2003 without a Special Pennyfoot Hotel mystery. A Christmas-themed series that has been released annually, Kate Kingsbury‘s series has become a regular November release every year for over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-books","8":"category-holiday-mystery-books","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-536","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19412"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33702,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19412\/revisions\/33702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}