Here is a list of over 50 new titles representing major genres such as cozy mysteries, traditional mysteries, historical mysteries, and others releasing this month, with 15 debut series. (If you have a new cozy or traditional mystery coming out next month or in the future, send me an email at drusbookmusing@gmail.com.)

As always, I hope there is a new title to suit everyone’s personal taste. Enjoy the adventure!  


JANUARY 1
Hide by Tracy Clark (Detective Harriet Foster #1) *first in a new series*
Entertainment to Die For with forward from Sarah Paretsky

JANUARY 3
Misfire by Tammy Euliano (Kate Downey Medical #2)
Fatal Fascinator by Jenn McKinlay (Hat Shop #7)
Of Mushrooms and Matrimony by Amy Patricia Meade (Tish Tarragon #6)
Murder, She Wrote: Death on the Emerald Isle by Jessica Fletcher/Terrie Farley Moran (Murder She Wrote #56)
Meat Thy Maker by Tamar Myers (Pennsylvania-Dutch #24)
A Murderous Persuasion by Katie Oliver (Jane Austen Tea Society #2)
Courting Dragons by Jeri Westerson (King’s Fool #1) *first in a new series*
The Long Way Out by Michael Wiley (Franky Dast #2)

JANUARY 4
The Summer House at Larkspur by Kay Pritchett (Mosey Frye #2)

JANUARY 5
Brackish Water by Neil S. Plakcy (Angus Green #4)

JANUARY 6
Last Seen in Santorini by Vivian Conroy (Miss Ashford Investigates #2)

JANUARY 10
Double Dose by Gretchen Archer (Davis Way Crime Caper #11)
The Game is a Footnote by Vicki Delany (Sherlock Holmes Bookshop #8)
Dial M for Meow by Ruth J. Hartman (Bookshop Kitties #1) *first in a new series*
Homecoming and Homicide by Jody Holford (Wannabe Sleuth #2)
Snuffed Out by Valona Jones (Magic Candle #1) *first in a new series*
Just Murdered by Katherine Kovacic (Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder #1) *first in a new series*
Early Grave by Paul Levine (Jake Lassiter #12)
River of Fallen Angels by Laura Joh Rowland (Victorian #7)

JANUARY 12
Masquerade Party Murder by Leighann Dobbs (Juniper Holiday #4)

JANUARY 15
Rancour in Ruffec by GM Haley (Catherine Patterson #6)
Strangers in the Avalon Dunes by Jane Kelly (Meg Daniels #6)

JANUARY 16
The Pepper Peach Murder by Meg Benjamin (Luscious Delights #1) *first in a new series*

JANUARY 17
Like, Subscribe, and Murder by Nicole Dieker (Larkin Day #2)
The Mitford Secret by Jessica Fellowes (Mitford Murders #6)
Dangerous Thaw by Kari Lee Harmon (Coldwater Cove #3)
A Study in Chocolate by Amber Royer (Bean to Bar #5)
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Sticks and Stones and a Bag of Bones by Heather Weidner (Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe #1) *first in a new series*

JANUARY 18
Born to Bead Wild by Janice Peacock (Glass Bead #5)

JANUARY 19
Murder at the Bookstore by Sue Minix (The Bookstore #1) *first in a new series*
The Body in the Boathouse by Diana Xarissa (Sunset Lodge #2)

JANUARY 20
Where the Guilty Hide by Annette Dashofy (Detective Honeywell #1) *first in a new series*
Murder at the Charity Ball by Helena Dixon (Miss Underhay #11)

JANUARY 24
Trace Evidence by Diane Capri (Michael Flint #2)
Gone But Not For Garden by Kate Collins (Goddess of Greene St. #4)
Four Leaf Cleaver by Maddie Day (Country Store #11)
Wreck Bay by Barbara Fradkin (Amanda Doucette #5)
Murder at a Scottish Wedding by Traci Hall (Scottish Shire #4)
Against the Currant by Olivia Matthews (Spice Isle Bakery #1) *first in a new series*
A Fashionable Fatality by Alyssa Maxwell (Lady and Lady’s Maid #8)
Irish Coffee Murder by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, Barbara Ross
Election Day Murder by Sue Pepper (Jackson Hole Moose’s Bakery #5)

JANUARY 25
Venus Rising by Tammy D. Walker

JANUARY 26
New Year Nuisance by Tonya Kappes (Holiday #4)
Implied Consent by Keenan Powell (Maureen Gould #1) *first in a new series*

JANUARY 27
Murder in Chianti by T.A. Willams (Armstrong and Oscar #2)

JANUARY 30
Don’t Mess with Me by Mary Ann Jacobs (Berkshires #1) *first in a new series*
Murder on Boston Common by Andrea Kress (Massachusetts #1) *first in a new series*
For All in TENTS & Curses by Shelley Dawn Siddall (Death in Miniature #3)

JANUARY 31
Dead Before I Do by Kat Bellemore (Maddie Swallows #3)
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano (Finlay Donovan #3)
The Girl with the Dragonfruit Tattoo by Carrie Doyle (Trouble in Paradise #3)
Cheddar Late Than Dead by Linda Reilly (Grilled Cheese #3)