Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we got our first taste of spring with March's releases; this month—we keep the good times rolling with some great new titles! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read next!
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| Criminal Element's April 2016 Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List! | ||||||
| Week of April 1 through April 7 | ||||||
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| Bittersweet | Susan Wittig Albert | A China Bayles Mystery #23 | 04/05 opens in a new window  opens in a new window |
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| Vanilla Beaned | Jenn McKinlay | A Cupcake Bakery Mystery #8 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Fat Cat Takes the Cake | Janet Cantrell | A Fat Cat Mystery #3 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| A Clue in the Stew | Connie Archer | A Soup Lovers Mystery #5 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Breach of Crust | Ellery Adams | A Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery #5 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Braking for Bodies | Duffy Brown | A Cycle Path Mystery #2 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Rest in Peach | Susan Furlong | A Georgia Peach Mystery #2 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Needle and Dread | Elizabeth Lynn Casey | A Southern Sewing Circle Mystery #11 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| An Unhappy Medium | Dawn Eastman | A Family Fortune Mystery #4 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Crime and Poetry | Amanda Flower | A Magical Bookshop #1 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Moss Hysteria | Kate Collins | A Flower Shop Mystery #18 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Reading Up a Storm | Eva Gates | A Lighthouse Library Mystery #3 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Killer Takeout | Lucy Burdette | A Key West Food Critic Mystery #7 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Blood Orange | Susan Wittig Albert | A China Bayles Mystery #24 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Murder She Wrote: Design for Murder | Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain & Reneé Paley-Bain | A Murder She Wrote Mystery #45 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| The Semester of Our Discontent | Cynthia Kuhn | Lil Maclean Mystery #1 | 04/05 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Double Down | Stephanie Caffrey | Raven McShane Mysteries #4 | 04/05 opens in a new window |
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| Week of April 8 through April 14 | ||||||
| Title | Author | Series | Date | |||
| Life is Better Brunette | Diane Bator | Gilda Wright Mysteries #3 | 04/11 opens in a new window |
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| A Death Along the River Fleet | Susanna Calkins | Lucy Campion Mysteries #4 | 04/12 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Murder on the Hour | Elizabeth J. Duncan | A Penny Brannigan Mystery #7 | 04/12 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Double Knot | Gretchen Archer | Davis Way Crime Caper #5 | 04/12 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Week of April 15 through April 21 | ||||||
| Title | Author | Series | Date | |||
| Priced to Kill | Catherine Bruns | Cindy York Mysteries #2 | 04/18 opens in a new window |
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| Week of April 22 through April 29 | ||||||
| Title | Author | Series | Date | |||
| Framed to Death | Christina Freeburn | Faith Hunter Scrap This Mystery #4 | 04/26 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Passion, Poison & Puppy Dogs | Elizabeth Ashby, Sally J. Smith & Jean Steffens | Danger Cove Mysteries #9 | 04/26 opens in a new window |
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| Antiques Fate | Barbara Allan | A Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery #10 | 04/26 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Silence of the Lamps | Karen Rose Smith | A Caprice De Luca Mystery #5 | 04/26 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| All Murders Final! | Sherry Harris | A Sarah W. Garage Sale Mystery #3 | 04/26 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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| Bossa Novas, Bikinis, and Bad Ends | Mary McHugh | A Happy Hoofers Mystery #4 | 04/26 opens in a new window opens in a new window |
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