Maddie Day is one of my favorite and prolific authors, and I’m so excited to share with you the cover reveal for the next book in her endearing mystery series, coming August 2025 and now up for preorder.
Publication Date: August 26, 2025
Format: Print, Digital (Audio to follow)
Name of Series: A Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery ~ Book 7
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Author Website: edithmaxwell.com
Book Synopsis
In Agatha Award-winner Maddie Day’s delightfully spooky Cozy Capers Book Group mystery, it’s Halloween, and Cape Cod bike shop owner Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida and her book club must unmask a killer…
Just in time for Halloween, a new costume shop has opened on Main Street in Westham, Massachusetts. Cape Costumers is a cut above the usual seasonal pop-up stores with their flimsy mass-produced outfits and cheap plastic masks, mostly due to co-owner Shelly, a former Broadway costume designer. But when Shelly discovers her elderly boyfriend Enzo—a Broadway star who retired to Westham—dead of unnatural causes, Halloween suddenly gets a lot scarier.
Sleuthing, Mac has found, is a lot like riding a bicycle: once you learn how, you never forget. Far from being spooked, Mac and the members of the Cozy Capers Book Group put down their weekly book selection and put their heads together to see past a bag of tricks and find a malice-making murderer who’s hiding in plain sight . . .
About the author
Maddie Day pens the Country Store Mysteries, the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries, the Cece Barton Mysteries, and the Dot and Amelia Mysteries. As Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, she writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries and short crime fiction. Day/Maxwell lives with her beau and their cat Martin north of Boston, where she writes, gardens, cooks, and wastes time on Facebook. Find her at EdithMaxwell.com, wickedauthors.com, Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen, and on social media: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Great cover!
Thanks – I love what Kensington does with my covers.
Fabulous cover and sounds like so much fun … OK and scarier!
All of that! Thanks.
Looks like fun suspense, Edith and Dru Ann!
Thanks!
What a wonderful cover!
I love the Kensington cover people.
Super exciting! Can’t wait for the opportunity to read MURDER AT CAPE COSTUMERS. I know it’s going to be a fabulous read because Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) never disappoints her readers.
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Aww, thank you, Kay.
Love the cover, Edith!
Thanks so much, Sherry. I love it too!
One of my fave authors! Happy to see the start of a new series. Thanks for featuring her, Dru.