I love telling you about new Cozy Mystery series when some of our favorite Cozy Mystery authors launch them. And it looks like we’ll have three new Cozy Mystery series to look forward to in August by established authors on the site. They look like some real good ones, too!<\/p>\n
First is Peg Cochran<\/a><\/strong>‘s (aka Meg London)\u00a0Cranberry Cove Mystery Series<\/strong>, which will have its debut book, Berried Secrets<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, releasing in August. This upcoming novel will star Monica Albertson, who has come to the small town of Cranberry Cove, located on Lake Michigan, to help her half-brother Jeff run his cranberry farm. When Jeff comes under suspicion for the untimely death of his former farm manager, Monica will need to help make sure that his good name is cleared.\u00a0Peg Cochran also writes the Gourmet De-Lite Mystery Series<\/strong> starring gourmet caterer Gigi Fitzgerald, the Lucille Mystery Series<\/strong> starring a middle-aged Jersey girl and Home Shopping Channel devotee, as well as the Sweet Nothings Vintage Lingerie Mystery Series<\/strong> under the pen name Meg London<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Next will be Shelley Freydont<\/a><\/strong>‘s\u00a0A Gilded Grave<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, which will be the first book in her Newport Gilded Age Mystery Series<\/strong>. This series will be a period piece set toward the end of the 19th century, starring Deanna Randolph, a wealthy young woman of the American elite spending her first season in Newport, Rhode Island. When a young maid turns up dead and a young man she turned down for marriage becomes the primary suspect, Deanna knows he isn’t a killer. Shelley Freydont is also the author of several other Cozy Mystery series, including the holiday-focused\u00a0Celebration Bay Mystery Series<\/strong>, the\u00a0Sudoku Mystery Series<\/strong> starring a Sudoku champion and mathematician, and the\u00a0Lindy Haggerty Mystery Series<\/strong> starring an ex-dancer in New Jersey.<\/p>\n Finally, Joyce and Jim Lavene<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(aka J.J. Cook & Ellie Grant) will be releasing Give ‘Em Pumpkin to Talk About<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, the first book in their new Pumpkin Patch Mystery Series<\/strong>. When attorney Sarah Tucker goes home to sell the old family farm in Misty River, Virginia,\u00a0it brings back memories of when she was a young girl and her grandparents mysteriously disappeared just before she arrived for a vacation at the farm. When a man dies after claiming to know something about what happened to them, she won’t be able to go back home until she has finally reached the bottom of their mysterious disappearance. The Lavenes\u00a0are also the authors of many other Cozy Mystery Series, including the\u00a0Missing Pieces Mystery Series<\/strong>, the\u00a0Renaissance Fair Mystery Series<\/strong>, the\u00a0Taxi For the Dead Mystery Series<\/strong>, the\u00a0Peggy Lee Garden Mystery Series<\/strong>, the\u00a0Retired Witches Mystery Series<\/strong>, and the\u00a0Sheriff Sharyn Howard Mystery Series<\/strong>… plus several others!<\/p>\n