Looking for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing during the week of July 16 – 22, 2023 with one debut series. I hope a few of these books take you to an exciting place. Have fun reading!

A Questionable Character by Lorna Barrett (Cozy)
It’s a busy summer in Booktown. Contractor Jim Stark is in great demand: he’s overseeing a number of projects, including Angelica Miles’s newly constructed building on Main Street, finishing up the new brew pub, and gutting a stone mansion off Main Street that Angelica bought to be the world headquarters for Nigela Ricita Asssociates. It’ll house office space where her marketing staff and the rest of the NR Associates clerical personnel will work. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Between a Wok and a Dead Place by Leslie Budewitz (Cozy)
Pepper Reece, owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, loves a good festival, especially one serving up tasty treats. So what could be more fun than a food walk in the city’s Chinatown–International District, celebrating the Year of the Rabbit? Format: Print, Digital

The Block Party by Jamie Day (Domestic Suspense)
This summer, meet your neighbors. The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of the annual Summer block party, there has been a murder. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

The Killer’s Wife by Susan Furlong (Psychological Suspense)
When a severed finger was found in her car four years ago, Kerry Grey was arrested as an accomplice to the brutal slayings of three young women. Unbeknownst to Kerry, her husband Lucas was not only missing, but a deranged serial killer. Finally out on parole, she is ready to start anew and reunite with her young son. However, when a vigilante group inflamed by fear and motivated by reward money sparks a fevered hunt for Lucas, the nightmares of her past return. Format: Print, Digital

Emily Lickenson Could Not Stop Death by CeeCee James (Cozy)
Emily had hoped to settle back into her peaceful routine after helping to solve the last crime spree, but fate had other plans. When she stumbles upon a murder victim in the alley behind her apartment building, she knows she can’t ignore her instincts. Format: Digital

Devil Within by James L’Etoile (Domestic Suspense)
The border is a hostile place with searing heat and venomous serpents. Yet the deadliest predator targets the innocent. A sniper strikes in the Valley of the Sun and Detective Nathan Parker soon finds a connection between the victims-each of them had a role in an organization founded to help undocumented migrants make the dangerous crossing. Parker discovers no one is exactly who they seem. Format: Print, Digital

Take the Honey and Run by Jennie Marts (Cozy) *first book in a new series*
As a successful mystery author, Bailey Briggs writes about murder, but nothing prepares her for actually discovering the dead body of the founder of her hometown of Humble Hills, Colorado. Bailey grew up at Honeybuzz Mountain Ranch and was raised by her beekeeping grandmother, Blossom Briggs, aka Granny Bee, and her two eccentric sisters, Aster and Marigold—which is why she drops everything to come home and help Granny Bee after a bad fall. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

I Know What You Did by Cayce Osborne (Psychological Suspense)
Petal Woznewski is content with her quiet, introverted life in New York City: she has her junk food, her movies, and her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Gus. That peace is shattered when her name appears on the dedication page of an anonymously written thriller with a cryptic note: “I know what you did, Petal Woznewski. And now everyone else will, too.” Format: Print, Digital, Audio