Searching for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing the week of June 7 – 13, 2026. I hope a few of these books take you on a reading adventure!
JUNE 9
Whose Body In The Library by Eva Gates (Cozy Mystery)
While Lucy McNeil is enjoying her new job as the mother of twin boys and library director, new librarian Nichelle Gilchrest has just arrived at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, reporting for duty. But life throws a wrench on Nichelle’s first day when she finds a body on the steps—a body that bears a startling resemblance to her father, who disappeared on a fishing trip to the Outer Banks thirty-eight years ago. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Killer Kayfabe by Randee Green (Cozy Mystery)
Zoey Wildes’s former friend from high school, Chester Neidigh, has recently returned to Linville after a twelve-year hiatus and is working as an artist at 3 Count Tattoos. The day after a heated confrontation with another former classmate, Chester fails to show up for work. Worried about Chester’s already precarious mental state, Zoey goes by his place to check on him. She finds Chester lying in a pool of blood following a vicious assault. Format: Digital, Print
Behind White Picket Fences by Christine Gunderson (Suspense)
Kiersten Cleaver feels like she’s flunking Motherhood 101. Exhausted by travel sports, homework, and her son’s dyslexia, she joins forces with her neighbors, Rosamund and Piper, to drop out of the scholastic rat race for one year. Together, they start the Beaverbrook Academy for Inquiring Minds in Kiersten’s kitchen, embarking on a journey back to the idyllic life they experienced as children, when phones were attached to the wall and kids played outside until the streetlights came on at dusk. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The Man Who Led a Dream Life by David Handler (Cozy Mystery)
Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag is getting married to the love of his life Merilee at New York City Hall. Hoagy’s college chum, Ezra Spooner, stands up for him. Merilee’s lovely cousin, Phoebe, stands up for her. And their young basset hound Lulu stands up for both of them. After they say “I do” and pop open the Dom Perignon, Phoebe somberly announces that she and her husband, the legendary adventurer and old money multi-millionaire Junior Singleton, are now officially divorced. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Poppy Montgomery Gets Even by Gordon Jack (Cozy Mystery)
Eighty-year-old Poppy Montgomery has always taken a negative view of her life. Her father? A bully. Her husbands? Losers. Her daughter and grandson? Well, they’re probably her fault. And now the police have taken away her license, her daughter wants to put her in a retirement home, and the bossy new fitter-than-thou attendee at water aerobics is taking over her favorite class. But enough is enough, and when her new friend, Ginny, is scammed on a dating site for seniors, Poppy decides it’s time to finally get even. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Rhubarb Pie Before You Die by Gin Jones (Cozy Mystery) *re-release*
Freelance app developer and temporary garlic farmer, Mabel Skinner, is intent on selling Stinkin’ Stuff Farm and running back to her quiet and safe home down east, but it’s proving harder than she’d expected. The only potential buyers are shady developers, and she refuses to let her aunt’s legacy get plowed under. Instead, she makes plans to expand the farm’s offerings by adding a rhubarb field, in the hope of making it more marketable. Format: Digital
A Botanist’s Guide to Tradition and Treachery by Kate Khavari (Historical Mystery)
Saffron Everleigh is newly engaged and full of optimism as she sets off on the adventure of a lifetime for any scientist: a research expedition. She sails to newly formed Turkey with her fiancé, Alexander Ashton, and a bevy of fellow researchers under the watchful and reformed eye of Dr. Henry. With only two other women on board, Saffron soon finds she is right back in the same infuriatingly misogynistic environment that marked the earliest days of her career. Only this time, Saffron is determined to show everyone, including Alexander, that she can handle the trials of an expedition. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Dressed to Grill by Gayle Leeson (Cozy Mystery)
When Amanda Tucker spots a set of unique buttons in an estate-sale listing, she thinks she’s found the perfect accessory for Amy Flowers’ wedding gown. But when the pair arrive at the sale, the organizer is already holding the buttons for someone else–someone who is soon found dead outside the homeowner’s garage. Suddenly, Amanda and Amy are pulled into a mystery stitched together with old scandals and new danger. Format: Digital, Print
Hot Girls Die First by Kayleigh Suggett (Traditional Mystery)
Private investigator Verona Montero hikes fifteen kilometers to a cliff-top lodge in the Canadian Badlands to dodge cheating dirtbags and a crush with better abs than boundaries. She expects R&R. Instead, a sex-bomb named Harper turns up planted in the front garden—daisies and all—and a storm turns the only road out into a mud smoothie. With the cops days away, Verona gets promoted to PI-in-residence with a complimentary bar tab and a house full of alibis that smell like last night’s tequila. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The Forty-Year Grudge by Liza Tully (Private Investigator Mystery)
It’s been four decades since the women of Sigma Delta Tau were last together. The passing years, growing families, and maturing careers may have strained the bonds of sisterhood, but now a reunion at the Western ranch of one member offers an opportunity to renew acquaintances…and at least one long-standing grudge. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Rescue Me by Andrew Welsh-Huggins (Private Investigator Mystery)
Private eye Andy Hayes confronts his personal prejudices and assumptions when an unorthodox case comes his way. Tim Watkins is a young drag artist performing under the name Tiara Treatwell and facing online abuse and in-person stalking from anti-LGBTQIA crusaders. While Andy suspects the attacks are connected to a protest outside a drag story hour Tim attended weeks earlier in suburban Columbus, he has no direct evidence of a link. Tim’s concerns unfold against a groundswell of right-wing activism in the Ohio Statehouse, led by a failed state senate candidate who insists his opponent, a Somali American woman, stole the election. Format: Digital, Print
JUNE 10
Murder at the Schoolhouse by Kay Pritchett (Cozy Mystery)
On St. John’s Eve, a night steeped in folklore, Police Chief Gus Olivera discovers the body of librarian Joscelyn Byrd ritualistically dressed in white at the base of a bell tower. The murder stains a property recently listed by real estate agent Mosey Frye-who knows that, in Hembree, land is never just dirt; it’s a ledger of old debts. As Gus searches for a killer among the victim’s former mentees, Mosey follows a different trail-one buried deep in the town’s past. Format: Digital, Print
JUNE 12
Death of a Proper Bostonian by Anne Louise Bannon (Historical Mystery 1870s)
It’s August 1873, and at long last, physician and winemaker Maddie Franklin Wilcox makes the journey home to her beloved native Boston. Her business is to deliver her ward and apprentice, Elena Ortiz, to the local women’s medical school, and that also includes visiting her father, her sister and her family. Format: Digital, Print
Note: in some cases, print releases for digital titles will be forthcoming.
Publication date subject to change