Check out some of the new titles releasing during the week of July 17 – 23, 2022 with three debut series. I hope a few of these books take you to an exciting place. Have fun reading!

Peppermint Barked by Leslie Budewitz (Cozy)
As the holiday season lights up Seattle’s famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece’s beloved Spice Shop is brimming with cinnamon, nutmeg, and shoppers eager to stuff their stockings. Add to the mix a tasty staff competition—a peppermint bark-off—along with Victorian costumes for this year’s Dickensian Christmas theme, and Pepper almost forgets to be nervous about meeting her fisherman boyfriend’s brother for the first time.

A Medium Fate by Lynn Cahoon (Cozy) *new series*
When Eddie Cayce turned home to New Orleans from her carefully built Seattle life, it’s not just for her grandmother’s funeral. She’s home to stay. More to the point, now that she’s broken it off with the almost fiancé and quit her corporate junior designer position over one too many trainings on how to run a copier, she has no reason to return.

Death in the New Land by Kaye George (Historical)
t’s clear the groups of other settlers in the area do not want more neighbors, and this is made even more evident when a male of Enga’s tribe is murdered, and a baby is kidnapped. The future of the tribe is immediately put into question. Can Enga and her people find the killer and rescue the baby? Or will the security and bright future the tribe has dreamed of fall to pieces?

Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier (Thriller)
When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she’ll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it’s not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it’s only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she’s worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future.

Dead Drop by James L’Etoile (Suspense) *new series*
While investigating the deaths of undocumented migrants in the Arizona desert, Detective Nathan Parker finds a connection to the unsolved murder of his partner by a coyote on a human smuggling run. The new evidence lures Parker over the border in search of the truth, only to trap him in a strange and dangerous land. If he’s to survive, Parker must place his life in the hands of the very people he once pursued.

For Better or Worse by Ava Mallory (Cozy) *new series*
Meet Carolina Banda, a psychiatric nurse with gumption. In her world, schizophrenia, junkies, burnt out moms and dads, lazy exes, Midwest humidity, and hypochondria are all in a night’s work for the born and bred Chicagoan. She’s a city girl who now calls the south suburbs home. In her neighborhood, Chicago-style bungalows are king, streets are cobbled, everyone is blue-collar, yards are impeccable, Sunday services are required after a Saturday night at one of the many local dive bars, and last but certainly not least, what Mama says goes.

The Wedding Plot by Paula Munier (Traditional)
When Mercy’s grandmother Patience marries her longtime beau Claude Renault at the five-star Lady’s Slipper Inn, it promises to be the destination wedding of the year. Just as the four-day extravaganza is due to begin, the inn’s spa director Bodhi St. George disappears—and Mercy’s mother Grace sends Mercy and Elvis to find him. But what they discover instead is a stranger skewered by a pitchfork in the barn on the goat farm where St. George lived.