Looking for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing the week of April 13 – 19, 2025 with one debut series. I hope a few of these books take you on a reading adventure!

APRIL 14
Sleuths Just Wanna Have Fun: Private Eyes in the Materialistic Eighties edited by Michael Bracken (Short Story Anthology)
In this rapidly changing environment, private eyes provided clients with legal and extra-legal services, and the stories included here explore the lighter side of sleuthing during the 1980s. Features fourteen of today’s top PI writers and talented newcomers: Elizabeth Elwood, John M. Floyd, Debra H. Goldstein, James A. Hearn, Richard Helms, Kathleen Marple Kalb, Tom Milani, Sandra Murphy, Laura Oles, Alan Orloff, William Dylan Powell, Mark Thielman, Joseph S. Walker, and Andrew Welsh-Huggins .Format: Digital, Print

Madame Pompette Catches the Choir by Libby Castle (Cozy Mystery)
Charlotte Pompette, ex-circus fortune teller turned tea shop owner, is settling into her new life in the charming English village of Saint-Luke’s-Upon-the-Water. With her business thriving, a loyal circle of friends, and her mischievous black cat Tarot by her side, things are finally looking rosy. That is, until she literally stumbles over the dead body of the local choir’s star singer. Format: Print, Digital

APRIL 15
Strangers in Time by David Baldacci (Historical Mystery 1940s)
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there’s no telling when a falling bomb might end his life. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Streetwhys by Christopher Chambers (Hardboiled Noir)
In StreetWhys, underground detective Dickie Cornish faces a vindictive murder rap from his past if he doesn’t agree to help prove that the fentanyl ravaging the streets of DC is bankrolled by shadowy donors of a certain former president. Broke and desperate, Cornish soon finds himself on a collision course with shady public defenders and corrupt police officers, forcing him to use his street connections to flip their plan. Or die. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Murder by Cheesecake by Rachel Ekstrom Courage (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
Things are heating up, and not just because of Blanche’s hot flashes. Rose’s cousin is eloping to Miami, and Rose is playing host. If she can’t balance the groom’s family’s snobbery against the traditional St. Olaf wedding week guidelines, her hometown may never accept her cousin again! Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Someone Is Out There by Kaye George (Suspense)
Someone is stalking Darla. She has a lot on her plate already. Dealing with a breakup. Her best friend shutting Darla out of her life. A handicapped mother. Her career as a hospital nurse. She doesn’t need slashed tires, threatening notes, or, least of all, a brick through her window. Format: Print, Digital

Splintered Justice by Kim Hays (Police Procedural)
Sometimes, a murder stays hidden in plain sight. When it isn’t clear if a crime has been committed, how do you get justice for the victim? Swiss homicide detective Giuliana Linder of the Bern Police and her investigating partner Renzo Donatelli are facing cases that may not be what they appear. Renzo is on the scene near the Bern cathedral when a young man repairing a medieval window is injured by falling from a scaffold—a fall deliberately caused by a teenage boy. Format: Print, Digital

Murder and a Missing Manuscript by Richard Tyler Jordan (Cozy Mystery)
When American comedy icon and amateur sleuth Polly Pepper stumbles upon a long-lost 19th-century manuscript in her English castle’s attic, she dreams of raking in a fortune. But before she can bask in glory, the manuscript vanishes… a famed antique book expert is murdered… and Polly is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue. Format: Print, Digital

The French Honeymoon by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau (Domestic Thriller)
This is not how she imagined it, any of it. Taylor Quinn arrives at her honeymoon suite in the City of Love alone, sans suitcase, but with wads of stolen cash. When she catches a glimpse of newlyweds Cassie and Olivier enjoying their happily ever, she can’t tear her eyes away. And Cassie makes their antics easy to follow as she reveals every detail of their picture-perfect trip on social media. Taylor’s obsession builds as she tracks their every move. This was the kind of life she was supposed to be living, this was the marriage she should have had, this was the honeymoon she dreamed of. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Ruth Run by Elizabeth Kaufman (Technothriller)
Twenty-six-year-old Ruth excels at microchip design but decides to get rich the old-fashioned way: robbing banks. She becomes a cybercriminal and devotes five years to siphoning more than $250 million out of the banking system using a hacked firewall chip that she created and only she knows how to access. Then one night an alarm goes off and she realizes she’s been discovered. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan (Horror)
For over a hundred years, the Evans women have kept the undead in their strange southeast Texas town from rising. But sometimes the dead rise too quick–and that’s what left Lenore Evans, and her granddaughter Luna, burying Luna’s mother, Grace, and Lenore’s mother, Ducey. Now the only two women left in the Evans family, Luna and Lenore are left rudderless in the wake of the most Godawful Mess to date. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Midnight in Soap Lake by Matthew Sullivan (Traditional Mystery)
When Abigail agreed to move to Soap Lake, Washington, for her husband’s research, she expected old-growth forests and craft beer, folksy neighbors and the world’s largest lava lamp. Instead, after her husband jets off to Poland for a research trip, she finds herself alone, in a town haunted by its own urban legends. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

One Death at a Time by Abbi Waxman (Traditional Mystery)
When Julia Mann, a bad-tempered ex-actress and professional thorn in the side of authority, runs into Natasha Mason at an AA meeting, it’s anything but a meet-cute. Julia just found a dead body in her swimming pool, and the cops say she did it (she already went to jail for murder once, so now they think she’s making a habit of it). Mason is eager to clear Julia’s name and help keep her sober, but all Julia wants is for Mason to leave her alone. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Risky Pursuit by Nancy G. West (Traditional Mystery)
High school senior Decker Savage, burdened by his baby brother’s death and dreading his parents’ impending divorce, sees his mother with a scruffy stranger and follows him to a dark house. He hears shouts upstairs, a man hits the floor, and the culprit escapes. Decker follows the victim’s ambulance. Through their mutual love of baseball, they become friends; but the elderly man can’t remember who attacked him, and Decker fears the assailant will return. His grades crater, his relationships go south, his baseball skills are erratic, and by entering the man’s house, he broke the law. Format: Print, Digital

APRIL 16
Murder on Display by Tracy Gardner (Cozy Mystery)
Savanna Shepherd, an art expert turned elementary art teacher, is planning the Art in the Park festival for her hometown of Carson, Michigan. But apparently, someone isn’t happy that Carson got to host the tourism boosting event and destroys the beloved statue in the park. Then Savanna discovers a local politician’s dead body following a planning committee meeting, and the festival is at risk of being canceled. Format: Print, Digital

For Whom the Bell Pepper Tolls by Matilda Swift (Cozy Mystery)
Jessica Askew, a sugar-coated spitfire with a dollop of determination and a pinch of pluck, is ready to bake her way to victory at the Little Quillington Literary Festival. But her plans deflate like soufflé when a new baking rival opens shop right outside her Parchment Paper Tearooms. Format: Print, Digital

APRIL 17
The Versailles Formula by Nancy Bilyeau (Historical Mystery)
Genevieve Sturbridge has left the dangers of London for a quiet life in the countryside with her husband and young son. But when she is invited to a dinner party at Sir Horace Walpole’s magnificent Gothic estate, she is drawn into a terrifying web of deception, espionage and murder. Format: Print, Digital

APRIL 18
A Vase in the Window by Kate Collins (Cozy Mystery)
When a friend lands in a detective’s crosshairs, Abby trades her pruning shears for a notepad, chasing clues through sunny neighborhoods and dark alleys. Marco, ever the steady hand behind Down the Hatch bar, tracks a thief who’s bolder than the storms rolling in. The couple’s rhythm is flawless—her intuition, his grit—but New Chapel’s latest puzzle is a tangle of feuds, debts, and whispered lies. A menacing brute lurks in the shadows, a grieving widow guards her truths, and a neighbor’s petty games turn sinister. Every lead blooms with questions: Who fired the shot? What’s worth stealing in a town this small? And why does a face in the window feel like a silent witness? Format: Digital

Crochet and Corpses by Ramey James (Cozy Mystery)
There’s a wedding in Hoochville! All Sadie Sexton is worried about is getting her bestie to the altar on time. But when two bodies show up at the wedding venue on the day of the ceremony and the groom’s whereabouts the night before are in question, suddenly he becomes the prime suspect. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Note: in some cases, print releases for digital titles will be forthcoming.