Five Wicked Releases and Two Giveaways!

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News Flash: Heidi McCarthy is Edith’s winner. Heidi, congratulations, and please check your email.

As the years have gone by, the Wickeds’ World of Books has expanded. We each started off with one published book, and now there are 96 covers on the slide show on this blog. (You can view it if you click on the three white dots in the top right corner of the blog, though I don’t know why you would. We really just keep it up for our own amusement at this point.)

Over the years, it’s become fairly common for us to have two book releases on the same day. But this is the first time, ever, that we’ve had FIVE. And in such an interesting mix of formats.

To celebrate, Edith/Maddie and I are offering one giveaway each, for a total of two possible prizes. Scroll down for the details.

Murder in a Cape Cottage

Author: Maddie Day

Series: Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries

Formats: Mass market paperback, ebook, audiobook

It’s beginning to look a lot like murder in Agatha-awarding winning author Maddie Day’s latest Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery, as Cape Cod bike shop owner Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida and her book club sleuths must solve a murder before Mac and her fiancée’s New Years Eve wedding…

Christmas Scarf Murder

Authors: Carlene O’Connor, Maddie Day, Peggy Ehrhart

Series: Irish Village Mysteries, Country Store Mysteries, Knit and Nibble Mysteries

Formats: Hardcover, ebook, audiobook

Stocking stuffers like handknit scarves make the coziest of Christmas gifts—unless they’re used as accessories for murder!

Christmas Cocoa and a Corpse

Author: Maddie Day

Series: Country Store Mysteries

Formats: Ebook and audiobook. (Previously published in Christmas Cocoa Murder.)

Tis the season to indulge in hot chocolate and irresistible holiday treats—until too much of a good thing turns downright deadly.

Logged On

Author: Barbara Ross

Series: Maine Clambake Mysteries

Format: Ebook (Previously published in Yule Log Murder.)

Few things are as sweet as Christmas in coastal Maine. The only thing that can spoil the fun is murder . . .

Muddled Through Audiobook

Author: Barbara Ross

Series: Maine Clambake Mysteries

Format: Audiobook (Previously published in mass market paperback and ebook.)

Mud season takes on a whole new meaning in the coastal town of Busman’s Harbor, Maine, when local business owners sling dirt at one another in a heated feud over a proposed pedestrian mall. Vandalism is one thing, but murder means Julia Snowden of the Snowden Family Clambake steps in to clean up the case . . .

Barb’s Giveaway

Barb is giving ten lucky entrants a bundle of books that includes paperbacks of the four collections a Maine Clambake Mystery novella appears in, as well as an Advance Reader Copy of the next collection, Irish Coffee Murder, and a Snowden Family Clambake tote bag like the one Julia carries. To enter, click here and fill out the form.

Edith/Maddie’s Giveaway

Edith/Maddie is giving an Advance Reader Copy of Four Leaf Cleaver, the next Country Store Mystery releasing January 24, 2023 to one lucky commenter below. She’ll throw in bookmarks, recipe cards, and Wicked Authors book bag for the lucky winner.

Edith/Maddie: Thanks for presenting our five-way release day, Barb!

Readers: What new book releases are you looking forward to this fall? Tell us below or just say “hi” to be entered to win the ARC of Four Leaf Cleaver.

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Published by Barbara Ross

Barbara Ross is the author of twelve Maine Clambake Mystery novels and six novellas. Her books have been nominated for multiple Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and have won the Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Portland, Maine. Readers can visit her website at www.maineclambakemysteries.com

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  1. Hi, I am looking at any and all! I read Barbara, Maddie and Julie a lot and always look forward to new ones to follow my favorite characters. Need to stock up on the winter reading!

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      1. Edith, Murder at the Cape Cod Cottage just arrived completely dry here on the SE Florida coast. So grateful to the intrepid delivery driver who brought it to my door through the downpour. Excellent way to pass this stormy time! Thank you for writing this!

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  3. Well, yours of course! But also the holiday themed stories that start to release! And I can usually count on a new Louise Penny around this time of year.
    Thanks and congrats on the current releases!

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  4. Congrats to both Edith and Barb on their new releases today!

    There are a lot of books coming out this fall that I’m looking forward to. Heck, just today there are five books that are on my buy list. Besides Edith’s 2 releases (which I read advance copies of already but plan to buy still), there’s books by C.J. Box (Treasure State), the Korina Moss mystery Gone For Gouda and the new Archer Mayor book Fall Guy.

    I’m also looking forward to Carlene O’Connor’s new thriller No Strangers Here.

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  6. I love all the series listed and would love to enter. I need some good luck for a change, all I have been getting is bad news about my health . Thank you and have a wonderful day. 🤗🤗😁😁

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  9. I read all of y’all’s books and love them. Books kept me sane during the pandemic and I love to read…cozies are my favorites!

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  12. Good morning!!!
    Oh, I’m so looking forward to all of them!!!
    They all look very good!!!!🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

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  15. Congratulations to you and Barbara on your new releases. I’m always happy when any of the Wickeds release a new book. I’m also looking forward to the release of The Plot and the Pendulum by Jenn McKinlay and Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking by Raquel V. Reyes.

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  18. Congratulations on your new release(es)! I am really looking forward to all the fall cozies releasing, and also a picture book biography of Madeleine L’Engle, called A Book, Too, Can Be A Star.

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  21. ICONGRATULATIONS and ADULATIONS Barbara and Edith!!! It is so exciting to have so many fun reding hours ahead thanks to Barbara and Edith’s brilliant writing skills! I am looking forward to reading MURDER IN A CAPE COTTAGE, which just came out. With a Christmas theme, this one will be just cozy FUN! Thank you, Barbara and Edith, for sharing your worlds and characters with us eager readers. Luis at ole dot travel

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  25. Wow! What a great collection of books. I can’t wait to read Christmas Scarf Murder. I’ve read all the other short story collections.

    Also the new Maddie Day release. It’s my favorite series of hers.

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  27. I’m not looking for anything specific. I like to be surprised by what comes out. I love to read anything fun or exciting.

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  29. Love the beautiful green book cover!! So eye catching. I’m looking forward to all the Wicked releases!

    Thanks is for the chance!

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  31. CONGRATULATIONS! So many wonderful new books coming out. I don’t know of a one published by any of the Wickeds that I haven’t anticipated its release, devoured it and then longed for the next book by that author.

    Love all the ones coming in the future, but I have to admit that “Four Leaf Cleaver” is very high on my TBR list. Always enjoy Edith/Maddie’s books and the ones I’ve read are a permanent part of the keeper books and are often loaned out.
    2clowns at arkansas dot net

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  33. Hi and Congratulations on these great sounding new releases! I love the sound of them and I really love the book covers. There are so many great new release’s I wouldn’t even know which one I would want to read first! Thank you for the chance.

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  36. Been looking forward to the new novella collection, Country Store, and Clambake books of course, plus Diane Kelly’s next in the Mountain Lodge series, Korina Moss’ next Cheese Shop, and probably a few others I’m not thinking of without consulting my list.
    Congrats on all the new releases!

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  37. I’m looking forward to reading “Murder at a Cape Cottage”. I’m also looking forward to reading the anthologies. Congratulations on your new releases.

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  38. I have just discovered your books Maddie and Barbara I have read one of Barbara’s books and I am looking forward to reading Maddie’s new books. Thank you for the giveaway.

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  41. This is just terrific! Congrats on all if the new books! The Wickeds are my favorite set of authors and I cannot wait to read all of these!!

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  45. Hi. There are so many fabulous new books coming out that I cannot narrow it down to one. Thank you for sharing. God bless you.

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  46. I am definitely looking forward to the release of Four Leaf Cleaver! I have been enjoying the Country Store mysteries and have read the first four books in the series plus Batter Off Dead. I will read the entire series whether or not I win this contest!

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  48. Always can’t wait for new releases on my faves like Barb and Maddie and should I go on. Too many. Just found Cate Conte and Leslie Karst and love them. Can’t wait for Ellery Adams, Kate Carlisle, Diane Kelly, Lucy Burdette, Lorna Barrett, Lorraine Bartlett, Ellen Byron and so many more that would take up too much room here. I hate it when no new ones come out. Just keep on comin’! Withdrawal happens!

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  49. I started reading cozy during the pandemic, I needed the comfort that the books provide. They are as comfy as they are cozy.

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