Everyone loves a new series. Finding one that deserves a second and a third
look is like receiving a surprise package in the mail, or following your
dream while helping a loved one, or even possibly like having Christmas all
year round! That's exactly what you'll get when you turn the first page of
the three cozy mysteries I've selected for this week's Cozy Corner.
The pseudonym Jean
Flowers may be new to the cozy mystery scene, but the author is not.
Jean is none other than Margaret Grace, Ada Madison and Camille Minichino
and her experience with a mystery gets my stamp of approval on her new Postmistress MysteryDEATH TAKES PRIORITY.
About
DEATH TAKES PRIORITY: After caring for her dying aunt and being dumped
by her fiancé, Cassie Miller decides to return to her small hometown in the
Berkshires to lick her wounds and live in the house where she was raised.
Leaving behind her managerial position in the Boston main postal office,
Cassie trades in her tailored suits and high heels for the comfortable blue
shirt and red, white, and blue striped scarf of the Postmaster for North
Ashcot, Massachusetts.
Everything is business as usual until Cassie arrives at work one day to find
that someone has broken into the post office building. The only items
stolen: stacks of telephone books. Who steals phone books? Two days later,
the body of an unidentified man is found in the woods. And when the handsome
antiques dealer she just had lunch with is taken into custody, Cassie is
suddenly drawn into the case. With a crime enveloped in mystery, she needs
to track the killer—before another victim’s fate is sealed in the dead
letter office…
Author Kay Finch is no stranger to the world of mysteries
either, she's a paralegal for a renowned defense attorney in Houston and
just released her fourth mystery with her new series A Bad
Luck Cat Mystery, BLACK CAT CROSSING. Having this black cat
cross in front of you makes for purr-fect reading!
About
BLACK CAT CROSSING: In the first in this cat-filled cozy series,
aspiring mystery author Sabrina Tate is about to discover that when it comes
to solving murders, her new feline friend Hitchcock is a master of
sleuthing…
Sabrina has never been the superstitious type. Still, when she moves to
Lavender, Texas, to write her first novel and help her Aunt Rowe manage her
vacation rental business, Sabrina can’t avoid listening to the rumors that a
local black cat is a jinx—especially after the stray in question leads her
directly to the scene of a murder.
The deceased turns out to be none other than her Aunt Rowe’s awful cousin
Bobby Joe Flowers, a known cheat and womanizer who had no shortage of
enemies. The only problem is that Aunt Rowe and Bobby Joe had quarreled just
before the cousin turned up dead, leaving Rowe at the top of the long list
of suspects. Now it’s up to Sabrina to clear her aunt’s name. Luckily for
her, she’s got a new sidekick, Hitchcock the Bad Luck Cat, to help her sniff
out clues and stalk a killer before Aunt Rowe winds up the victim of even
more misfortune…
Author Vicki
Delany is a "One woman crime wave!" and she's got a sleigh-full of
mysteries under Vicki Delany and Eva Gates that you'll want to tear into as
soon as possible. Don't wait for Christmas day cause she's bringing readers
A
Year-Round Christmas Mystery, with her first in the series REST YE
MURDERED GENTLEMEN.
About
REST YE MURDERED GENTLEMEN: In Rudolph, New York, it’s Christmastime
all year long. But this December, while the snow-lined streets seem merry
and bright, a murder is about to ruin everyone’s holiday cheer…
As the owner of Mrs. Claus’s Treasures, Merry Wilkinson knows how to
decorate homes for the holidays. That’s why she thinks her float in the
semi-annual Santa Claus parade is a shoe-in for best in show. But when the
tractor pulling Merry’s float is sabotaged, she has to face facts: there’s a
Scrooge in Christmas Town.
Merry isn’t ready to point fingers, especially with a journalist in town
writing a puff piece about Rudolph’s Christmas spirit. But when she stumbles
upon the reporter’s body on a late night dog walk—and police suspect he was
poisoned by a gingerbread cookie crafted by her best friend, Vicky—Merry
will have to put down the jingle bells and figure out who’s really been
grinching about town, before Vicky ends up on Santa’s naughty list…
Kym Roberts is a retired detective sergeant who looks for passion,
mystery and suspense in every book she reads and writes. She can be found on
the web at kymroberts.com, on Facebook at Kym Roberts (author) and on
Twitter @kymroberts911. Look for her newest release, FLIRTING
WITH THE DEVIL, A Noble Pass Affaire Novella available now.