Looking for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing during the week of January 5 – 11, 2025 with two debut series. I hope a few of these books take you to an exciting place. Have fun reading!

JANUARY 6, 2025
Holmes Is Missing by James Patterson and Brian Sitts (Private Investigator Mystery)
Success has come quickly to Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—Brendan Holmes, “the brain,” Margaret Marple, “the eyes,” and Auguste Poe, the “muscle”—with famous names and mysterious pasts is one major case away from cementing its professional reputation. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

JANUARY 7, 2025
See How They Hide by Allison Brennan (Thriller)
Two people were murdered—at the exact same time, in the same gruesome manner, bodies covered in the same red poppies…but on opposite sides of the country. With Detective Kara Quinn investigating in Oregon and Special Agent Matt Costa in Virginia, the Mobile Response Team digs deep to uncover more about each victim. What is the link between the two, and why were they targeted? Format: Print, Digital, Audio

The Note by Alafair Burke (Psychological Thriller)
It was meant to be a harmless prank. Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower. Raised by a first-generation Chinese single mother with high expectations, May didn’t have room to slip up, let alone fail. Her friends didn’t call her the Little Sheriff for nothing. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

In At The Death by Judith Cutler (Historical Mystery 1860s)
Harriet and Matthew Rowsley, the housekeeper and estate manager of Thorncroft House in Shropshire, have to cut short their successful trip to Oxford when they receive a telegraph: a decapitated and mutilated body has been found on the estate. Format: Print, Digital

Dead Men Wag No Tails by Sarah Fox (Cozy Mystery)
Georgie Johansen’s return to the coastal haven of Twilight Cove has been a dream come true: she gets to work with Auntie O at the animal sanctuary, has adopted two very adorable dogs who have very special abilities and even has a blossoming romance with the gorgeous farmhand Callum. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Schooled In Murder by Victoria Gilbert (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
Jennifer “Jen” Dalton is an author and educator at Clarion University in Virginia. She loves her job, but some of her petty coworkers look down on her for writing genre fiction. As members of the English department, they wish to encourage students to pursue higher literary aspirations. When a humiliating confrontation between an uppity professor and one of Jen’s students, Mia, escalates, no one thinks much of it. Until his dead body is found along with evidence incriminating Mia. Format: Print, Digital

Early Termination by Cindy Goyette (Traditional Mystery)
She’s on a gang’s hit list, a detective’s suspect list, and is torn while two very hot men vie for her heart. As more clients die and a probationer accuses her of brutality, she becomes the focus of the investigation. Casey risks losing everything in her race to find the real killer, but doing so will put the target squarely on her back. She will need to find the person responsible for lightening her workload before she’s the one terminated. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

The Wedding Party by Rebecca Heath (Psychological Thriller)
Adele and Jason are childhood sweethearts. Their wedding day on the sunny Australian coast is a chance to reunite and celebrate with friends and family. But Adele isn’t telling the truth about her relationship. And some of the wedding party – still reeling from a tragic death in the group a decade before – hold secrets of their own. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Death Among the Stitches by Betty Hechtman (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
Annie Hart, daughter of Bryan Hart – talent agent to the stars – spends her life getting roped into whatever new task her father needs her to do for his VIP clients. So when she inherits a yarn shop in the small Indiana town of Franklin, she is curious to see what it feels like to have something that is solely hers! Format: Print, Digital

Murder At First Light by Christine Knapp (Cozy Mystery)
Life has calmed down for modern nurse midwife Maeve O’Reilly Kensington, following her daughter’s eventful arrival into the world. Her family has settled into a welcome routine, and Maeve is about to break new ground as the first faculty midwife at Rosemont College in the quaint New England town of Langford. Format: Print, Digital

Shattering Dawn by Jayne Ann Krentz (Romantic Suspense)
Amelia Rivers, a member of the Lost Night Files podcast team, hires private investigator Gideon Sweetwater to catch the stalker who has been watching her. Amelia suspects the stalker may be connected to the shadowy organization responsible for the night that she and her two friends lost to amnesia—a night that upended their lives and left them with paranormal talents. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Her Prodigal Husband by Becky Masterman (Domestic Thriller)
Alice Einstein – known as “Malice” to her former schoolfriends – likes to tell herself stories. There’s a good one she’s workshopping about how, despite once being a critically acclaimed literary novelist, she’s ended up blocked and uninspired, living in her timid, conflict-averse sister Liesl’s spare room. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Death In The Hills by Kate Wells (Cozy Mystery)
When Jude Gray and DI Binnie Khatri join a local walking group, their expectations for a peaceful outing to the Malvern Hills takes a grim turn. Arguments abound, and the hike ends in tragedy when one of the walkers is found dead in her car. Initially ruled as an accident, Jude’s instincts tell her there’s more to the story. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Rebellious Grace by Jeri Westerson (Historical Mystery 1530s)
The gruesome murder of a servant in the king’s palace, his throat savagely cut, has brought fear to the court of Henry VIII. When the man’s body is then dug up from the churchyard and disembowelled two weeks later, Will Somers, the king’s jester, is horrified. What terrible mischief is now afoot under the king’s roof? Format: Print, Digital

JANUARY 8, 2025
Retirement Can Be Deadly by Vickie Carroll (Private Investigator Mystery)
One of Peachtree Valley’s favorite persons, the town librarian, has been found murdered, but the victim’s grieving family doesn’t trust the new police chief to get to the bottom of this crime. The ink is barely dry on Helen’s PI license or the new Rogers, Adams, and Brown Private Investigations sign on her door, and already she’s had a high profile case land on her doorstep. Format: Print, Digital

JANUARY 11, 2025
Vengeance In The Vines by Rachele Baker (Cozy Mystery)
Rylie’s thrilled when she gets a long-term locum veterinarian job in the beautiful Napa Valley wine country where her best friend Sophie lives, and she’s looking forward to enjoying the area and spending time with Sophie and Sophie’s husband, Lucien. Format: Digital (Print to follow)

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