Dear Friends,

BeachThe Cozy Chicks would like to wish you a relaxing summer filled with watermelon, sunshine, trips to the pool, and lots of ice cream. In honor of the season, we’d like you to win a beach tote stuffed with books. Here’s how: Visit the Prize page on cozychicks.com and answer only ONE of the trivia questions correctly to be entered in a monthly drawing. Each month a lucky winner will receive seven signed mysteries from us, the Cozy Chicks!
 

UPDATES AND NEW RELEASES:

 
Kate CollinsKate Collins: Feisty law-school flunk-out turned florist Abby Knight attends her hometown’s Annual Pickle Fest parade and has a run-in with a nasty-tempered clown named Snuggles. (Abby knocks him off his unicycle while he’s juggling pickles.) After threatening Abby’s life, Snuggles is found pushing up water-squirting daisies, and Abby’s hunky ex-cop boyfriend Marco, is the last to see Snuggles alive, putting him in quite a pickle with the cops. Who is the mystery woman Abby saw Marco with, and why is he being so secretive with Abby when his life is on the line? If you like mystery and humor, you’ll love ACTS OF VIOLETS.
 

Diana KillianDiana Killian: Coming in April 2008, CORPSE POSE.
Recovering from a failed marriage and a serious case of career burnout, freelance marketing consultant A.J.Alexander is ready for a change-but the news that her beloved Aunt Diantha, a revered yoga instructor and brilliant businesswoman, has been murdered, is not what A.J. had in mind. So it's a total surprise when the trip to rural New Jersey with her mother, former British sex kitten Ellie Mason, awakens her spirit to the possibility of a new life. Not as big a surprise, however, as discovering gorgeous police detective Jake Oberlin suspects her of murder.

 

Karen MacInerneyKaren MacInerney: Beads of Doubt, the book Karen co-authored with her late mentor,  Barbara Burnett Smith, is finally on bookshelves! And the release of Howling at the Moon, the first installment of Karen's new Tales of an Urban Werewolf series, is available for pre-order, and will be in bookstores in January (the first three books are all scheduled for release next year).   She's currently hard at work on the second in the Urban Werewolf series, and will soon be turning her attention to the third Gray Whale Inn mystery, tentatively titled Murder Most Maine.

 

Maggie SeftonMaggie Sefton: A Killer Stitch. 'Tis the season for knitters in chilly Fort Connor, Colorado: scarves, sweaters, mittens-and murder. The House of Lambspun has been bombarded forthe holidays. In the midst of overflowing bins of sumptuous yarn, winter romance now buzzes, in chorus with the spindles of new spinning instructor Lucy Adair. But when Lucy's boyfriend, an alpaca rancher, is found dead in
Bellevue Canyon, avid knitter and sometime-sleuth Kelly Flynn finds herself linked to the prime suspect in the case-a rejected ex-lover of the playboy rancher. Charged with keeping both spinner and spurned from going over the edge, Kelly discovers more than a few secrets tangled in this spinner's web.

 

Michele ScottMichele Scott: Death Reins In. Michaela Bancroft is expanding her training and riding business by buying four new horses from colleague Audrey Pratt. Then Audrey is found in the stalls, strangled to death with a pair of reins, and it's up to Michaela to corral a killer-or she's next.

 

 

J.B. StanleyJ.B. Stanley: Fit to Die (Book 2 in the Supper Club Series) Welcome back to Quincy's Gap, Virginia, where James Henry and his dieting group contend with dangerous secrets, dark intrigue, and delicious praline sundaes. Six months after starting their low-carb diet, the Flab Five are feeling motivationally-challenged. A new ice cream shop has come to town, but so has the Witness to Fitness weight loss center, run by the fanatical Veronica Levitt. Maybe Veronica's "take-no-prisoners" approach is just what the group needs. Between dieting, caring for his cranky father, and struggling with his growing affection for Lucy, James has his plate full. But when he and his fellow dieters poke around in an arson case that turns into a murder investigation, the Flab Five discover that they may have bitten off more than they can chew. And coming in August, A Deadly Dealer, book 3 in the Molly Appleby antiques & collectibles mysteries.

 

Heather WebberHeather Webber: Trouble In Bloom. When Ohio landscape designer Nina Quinn and ex-boyfriend Bobby MacKenna appear as undercover contestants on the TV reality show “Hitched or Ditched,” to dig up dirt on the show’s producer, an uncomfortable situation grows far worse when there’s a death behind the scenes...and the only reality is murder.