Looking for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing during the week of July 7 – 13, 2024 with two debut series. I hope a few of these books take you to an exciting place. Have fun reading!

JULY 7
The Elusive Dietrich by Jared Cade (Historical Mystery) *first book in a new series*
When the crime-solving duo of Lyle Revel and Hermione Bradbury are not carrying out their duties as caretakers of Milsham Castle, they are usually involved in all sorts of revelry and mayhem. Their friend Oliver Seymour is making a documentary about the notorious Captain Dietrich. After discovering the wanted Nazi fugitive is still alive, Oliver is involved in a mysterious car crash before he can expose him. Format: Print, Digital

JULY 9
Summers End by Juneau Black (Cozy Mystery)
It’s late August in Shady Hollow, and intrepid reporter Vera Vixen agrees to chaperone the school’s annual field trip to Summers End, an ancient tomb built by an early woodland culture. Naturally, her good friend Lenore Lee comes along to help her. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Crimes and Confections by Catherine Bruns (Cozy Mystery)
With her beloved grandmother on vacation in Italy, baker Sally Muccio has her hands full. Between running a business, running after her toddler daughter, and running to keep her crazy parents out of trouble, Sal can’t seem to catch a break. Format: Print, Digital

It’s Elementary by Elise Bryant (Traditional Mystery)
Mavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the complexities of a multigenerational household. So no one is more surprised than Mavis when she caves to Trisha Holbrook, the long-reigning, slightly terrifying PTA president, and finds herself in charge of the school’s brand-new DEI committee. Format: Print, Digital

Bad Tourists by Caro Carver (Psychological Thriller)
Best friends Darcy, Camilla, and Kate escape for a post-divorce retreat in the Maldives, the perfect place to relax, reset, and embrace a fresh start in life. Darcy is learning how to be a free woman at forty-two. Camilla has found the perfect calling as a fitness and wellness influencer with a devoted following. And Kate is finally working on the book she was meant to write after years of telling other people’s stories. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

The Burning by Linda Castillo (Police Procedural)
Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named Milan Swanz, was chained to a stake and burned alive. It is an appalling and eerily symbolic crime against an upstanding husband and father. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

The Hollywood Assistant by May Cobb (Psychological Thriller)
F Cassidy Foster is heartbroken, stuck in life, and getting a little too obsessed with plants. Then when a well-connected friend becomes sick of Cassidy’s moping and gets her a gig with famous Hollywood couple, Marisol and Nate Sterling, Cassidy jumps at the chance to move to sunny LA. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Our Kind of Game by Johanna Copeland (Domestic Thriller)
Stella Parker has the life she’s always wanted: a loving husband, two happy children that she gave up her thriving law career to raise, and a beautiful house in the tony suburbs of Washington, DC. But when her neighbor Gwen shows up at her door, claiming to know things about her, Stella’s life is thrown into turmoil and she’s forced to reckon with the dark secret upon which she’s built her life. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

The Day He Never Came Home by Andrew DeYoung (Domestic Thriller)
Regan Peters knows her husband John wants to give her and their children a good life. The long hours he puts in as a financial advisor prove his dedication, and despite how mysterious he is about his past, that’s been enough for her to get through the hard days. Until the FBI shows up at their door, and Regan learns that her husband has been running a Ponzi scheme, is mixed up with dangerous criminals, and has been living under an assumed identity all these years. Everything she thought she knew about her life has been a lie. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Murder on the Nerd Cruise by Nicole Dieker (Cozy Mystery)
After spending her summer solving murders and staging Shakespeare, Larkin Day is ready for a vacation. When her best friend Anni invites Larkin to join her on a themed cruise for tabletop gamers and sci-fi and fantasy fans-as well as mathematicians, magicians, musicians, and anyone who wants to spend a week relaxing in the Caribbean-Larkin says “Bon voyage!” Format: Print, Digital

Flat Out Lies by Karen Grose (Traditional Mystery)
Ria Stiles is a good wife, a loving mother and successful photographer. She is also a practiced liar, with a dark past concealed by a new identity. Her husband Jim is no saint. He’s preoccupied by the threat he is about to be fired and their teenage son’s questionable antics. Format: Print, Digital

Murder on Devil’s Pond by Ayla Rose (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
When thirty-three-year-old Hannah Solace returns to her hometown to renovate and reopen the inn she co-owns with her sister Reggie, her mission is to give the old Victorian hotel an entirely new life. She’s even planting pollinator gardens around the inn–native flowers and fruit trees to lure honeybees and houseguests alike. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Sounds Like a Plan by Pamela Samuels Young & Dwayne Alexander Smith (Traditional Mystery)
Jackson Jones and Mackenzie Cunningham have a lot in common. They are both hard-working private investigators with their own firms in Los Angeles, each happily single, and very good at their jobs. But when they’re together, they are like oil and water. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

Ladykiller by Katherine Wood (Psychological Thriller)
Gia and Abby have been friends since childhood, forever bonded by the tragedy that unfolded in Greece when they were eighteen. Now thirty, heiress Gia is back in Greece with her shiny new husband, entertaining glamorous guests with champagne under the hot Mediterranean sun, while bookish Abby is working fourteen-hour days as an attorney. When Gia invites Abby on an all-expenses-paid trip to Sweden to celebrate her birthday, Abby’s thrilled to reconnect. Format: Print, Digital, Audio

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