Searching for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing the week of August 3 – 9, 2025 with three debut series. I hope a few of these books take you on a reading adventure!

AUGUST 3
Behind the Iron Fence by Veronica Mixon (Cozy Mystery)
When Emma Lynn Whitmore agrees to help catalog gravestones at a historic Savannah cemetery, she expects sunhats, sketchbooks, and maybe a few ghost stories—not a locked gate, a missing map, and a whisper that something valuable was stolen from behind the wrought-iron fence decades ago. Format: Print, Digital

AUGUST 4
Dyes and Deadbeats by Ramey James (Cozy Mystery)
Trouble is blowing up all over Hoochville. In the aftermath of the Founder’s Day parade explosion, weird things keep happening that parallel events in Deana Marie’s new unpublished whodunit. Coincidence? Sadie doesn’t think so. And when a body turns up in the storage shed at River Rats Tavern, all eyes are on Deana Marie as the source of all the shenanigans. Format: Print, Digital

AUGUST 5
For Duck’s Sake by Donna Andrews (Cozy Mystery)
Meg is in the backyard of the house her brother Rob, Delaney, and their new baby have moved into, supervising some workmen who are using a bulldozer to start digging out a duck pond. She wants to get away from her own house, which has become the staging site for Caerphilly’s first Mutt March, which will be held the next day. Meg thinks it will be more peaceful at Rob’s house–and it is until the bulldozers uncover a skeleton whose skull has a hole and a bullet rattling around inside. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Throwing Shadows by Claire Booth (Traditional Mystery)
When a hiker stumbles from the woods raving about a dead man, Sheriff Hank Worth launches a search. Near the infamous landmark of Murder Rocks – a Civil War era hideout for ambushers who robbed and killed passing travelers – they unearth two bodies and a skeleton. Format: Print, Digital

Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure by Rhys Bowen (Historical Mystery 1930s)
After thirty devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband’s appeal for divorce. It’s Ellie’s opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She’s taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Dora—each needing escape—impulsively head for parts unknown in the South of France. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Murder in the Greek Isles by Wendy Church (Thriller)
When Jesse O’Hara and her friends are invited to present at the International Conference on Law Enforcement and Investigation, she jumps at the chance. Sure, the dreaded small talk isn’t her favorite, but the conference is in Greece, and she’s more than willing to endure it for the chance to explore ancient ruins and mouthwatering cuisine. Format: Print, Digital

Deeds Left Undone by Ellen Crosby (Cozy Mystery)
When a vineyard accident during harvest season leaves Lucie Montgomery without a valuable employee, it’s her worst nightmare. But before she can search for a replacement, there’s more bad news: Paul Merchant, her winery manager’s husband, is found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Caturday Crime by Amanda Flower (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
Twenty-something Kinley Remington has problems. She’s stuck in a dead-end job at the local bank with a terror of a boss, but she’s too timid to try to look for something elsewhere. Whether are not she stays at the bank is taken out of her hands when she is fired for leaving eighty-something heiress Miss Penelope Slope in the bank’s vault alone. Shortly after, Miss Penelope’s priceless diamond necklace comes up missing. Format: Digital

Blueprint for Murder by Penni Justice (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
When Piper Landry buys the grandest old building on the town square to expand her antique shop into a cozy bookstore and coffee nook, she’s expecting creaky floors, not creeping danger. But after a woman is found murdered behind the building during the final night of the Apple Festival, Piper notices an unsettling number of people suddenly taking interest in her new property, each with their own questions and motives. The more she digs, the more she wonders: what could be hidden inside the old walls of 101 Main Street? Format: Print, Digital

Shofar, So Good by Aliza Levine (Cozy Mystery)
Ava Goldberg thought she had her hands full running Cafe Arcana and keeping her tarot business afloat. But when the high school football commentator is murdered in the press box at halftime—right in the middle of the homecoming game—Shiloh is thrown into chaos. Unfortunately for Ava, two of the main suspects are way too close for comfort: Her ex-husband. And the guy she’s maybe-sort-of dating. Format: Print, Digital

A Dish Best Served Dead by T.C. LoTempio (Cozy Mystery)
The national Foodie Fest is in town and food blogger Tiffany Austin is thrilled to report on the event, even if it means crossing paths with an arrogant and annoying chef from her past. The man can’t help boasting of his success, but he also lets slip to Tiffany that he’s publishing a tell-all memoir that will be filled with scandalous secrets about many people in the food industry. It’s a risky career move, and maybe just plain risky, as Tiffany discovers later that day when she finds the chef’s dead body mere steps from the convention center. Format: Print, Digital

The Understudy by Morgan Richter (Psychological Thriller)
After years of rigorous instruction and ensemble work, Kit finally gets her big break when she’s hired to play the lead role in a new opera based on the 1960s cult classic film Barbarella. Entrusted with playing the beautiful and seductive titular role, Kit is on her way to the top of the highly competitive world of New York City opera. But then she walks into rehearsal and meets her understudy. Stunning, suggestive, and bursting with the unbridled confidence of a novice, Yolanda is physically everything Barbarella is meant to be. At first, Kit isn’t threatened by the neophyte, until Yolanda reveals that she wants the role—and will do anything to get it. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

The Dead Come to Stay by Brandy Schillace (Cozy Mystery)
Jo Jones can’t seem to catch a break. She’d hoped that trading in her city life for the cozy, peaceful hills of North Yorkshire to take over her family estate would finally be her chance for a “fresh start.” Instead, she’s been thrust further into the past than she thought possible. The estate property is littered with traces of ancestors that Jo never knew existed, including a mysterious woman depicted in a half-destroyed painting inside the estate – and also including Jo’s late uncle, who may hold the key to her cryptic family history. Add to all this the gossipy town politics that Jo’s forced to navigate as a neurodivergent transplanted American. And that’s not even getting to the murder yet. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Who Murdered Ana Taylor by Printis Shunta (Traditional Mystery)
A tragedy sweeps the sleepy town of Hollman, Washington as a known prodigy ends up dead in her home. The police quickly deemed it as an accident due to an aneurysm, and eventually everyone moves on. Everyone but her best-friend, Janine McKinnon. Format: Print, Digital

Home Sweet Homicide by Rosalie Spielman (Cozy Mystery)
Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Tessa Treslow never thought that she’d be attending the wedding of her first love, Joe Eriksson, but that’s exactly where she finds herself. Even worse, his fiancée has asked her to be the Maid of Honor! Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Hollow Spaces by Victor Suthammanont (Thriller)
Thirty years ago, John Lo was acquitted of the murder of an employee he was having an affair with. The repercussions of that long-ago event still haunt his adult children. Brennan, a lawyer following in her father’s footsteps in more ways than one, has always maintained that the trial got it right. Hunter, a disgruntled war correspondent whose similarities to his father run more than skin-deep, believes their father got away with murder. Their opposing convictions have pushed them apart. Now, spurred by their mother’s failing health, the estranged siblings decide to reconcile their differences by reinvestigating the murder to come to a definitive conclusion. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Hunter’s Heart Ridge by Sarah Stewart Taylor (Traditional Mystery)
It’s November of 1965 and the second weekend of Vermont’s regular deer season when Vermont State Police detective Franklin Warren is called out to what looks like an accidental shooting at The Ridge Club, an exclusive men’s hunting and fishing club for congressmen, diplomats, judges, and titans of industry: a former ambassador has been shot while out hunting. With the war in Vietnam picking up speed on the other side of the world, Warren quickly realizes that many of the club’s members are powerful men who may have ulterior motives and connections in high places. Format: Print, Digital

The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine (Psychological Thriller)
When infamous chef, restaurateur, and television personality Maria Capello’s husband died, the media circus was intense…and quick to cast the blame. Whispers claimed Maria murdered her husband to build her culinary empire on his bones, and that there was an all-too-grisly reason his body was never recovered. Yet for the past few decades, the Capello family maintained their stoney silence—until now. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

AUGUST 6
Murder at Last Chance Cove by Kim Griswell (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
Writer Saffi Graywood is looking for a quiet place to finish her latest book when she sets her sights on Last Chance Cove. After a winding drive along the rugged Oregon coastline, Saffi arrives at her home for the summer – an RV park overlooking wind-swept beaches with salt-soaked air and fog that rolls in without warning. Format: Print, Digital

A Death for the Records by Ellen Jacobson (Cozy Mystery)
Thea Olson is thrilled that her grandfather’s ball of twine might set a record as the largest in the country. But not everyone is as excited as she is. In fact, some people might go to great lengths to ensure that Grandpa Olson’s labor of love never makes it into the record books . . . even murder! When a dead body is found in the Olson’s barn, Thea is determined to find the culprit and clear her grandfather’s name. Format: Print, Digital

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