November brings cold weather and tons of mystery novels many of which are additions to what may be your personal favorite mystery series. From David Baldacci to Lynne Truss, there may just be something for everyone this month.

 

Reading right now:

Irish author Ken Bruen’s “A Galway Epiphany” is the 16^th novel in the Jack Taylor series. When PI Jack Taylor wakes up from a coma, he finds himself in the middle of a miracle. After he was hit by a truck, Taylor was helped by children who were filmed caring for him and who are being given credit for his escape from death. The Church wants them found in order to verify the miracle or expose the fraud.

On hold right now:

Cozy mystery writer Ellie Alexander’s fourth book in the Sloan Krause series is “Without a Brew.” This unusual series centers around the Bavarian village of Leavenworth, Washington with brew master Sloan Krause finding that working for a trendy Nano-brewery that suddenly decides to have guest rooms available in a town filled with tourists is challenging in ways she never could have predicted. When one of her guests disappears, Krause searches for answers.

Irish author John Connolly’s latest "The Dirty South" is a prequel to his Charlie Parker series. This is his 18^th book in the series and he has decided to go back to 1997 after former New York Police detective Charlie Parker is mourning the recent death of his wife and child and finds himself in Arkansas investigating a serial killer. Supposedly this is the case that takes Parker down the road to become a PI.

English author Lynne Truss adds to her cozy series with the third book in her Constable Twitten series “Murder by Milk Bottle.” These historical cozies take place in the 1950s and are pretty funny books with a hero  Constable who is always disappointed that he has to actually go to work and now that people are being killed with milk bottles, he not only has to work but has to deal with the attention such an odd murder weapon is generating.

Other Mysterious Things:

Several bestselling books that are coming out in November have already been mentioned by me since they are some of my favorite authors and I just couldn’t help but mention them early. David Baldacci’s third Atlee Pine mystery “Daylight,” “The Law of Innocence” which is Michael Connelly’s seven book in the Mickey Haller series, and “Moonflower Murders” the second in Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland Magpie murders series. Alexander McCall Smith will also add his 21^st book in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series “How to Raise an Elephant.” Janet Evanovich added her 27^th book to her Stephanie Plum series (“Fortune and Glory”). While Mary Higgins Clark died this year, her collaborative series with Alafair Burke has a seventh book coming out in the Under Suspicion series called “Piece of My Heart.” Last but not least, Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land continue the Murder She Wrote series with “Murder in Season.” If you are fan of series mysteries, you are in luck this month with much to enjoy while you are distancing from others and staying home for the holidays.