Searching for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing the week of June 21 – 27, 2026 with two debut series. I hope a few of these books take you on a reading adventure!
JUNE 22
The Armchair Detectives on Holiday by Matt Dunn (Cozy Mystery)
Fresh from their last case at Twilight Lodge, Martin and Albie reward themselves with a relaxing trip to the sun-soaked island of Menorca. But when they head down to breakfast one morning, they happen upon a panicked husband reporting his wife, bestselling author Karen Squires, missing. Soon afterwards they’re shocked to discover Karen’s body on the beach. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
JUNE 23
A Twist in the River by Stig Abell (Private Investigator Mystery)
When young nurse Claire Davidson goes missing on the riverbank, the only clues left behind are her phone and shoes. People disappear all the time, but this case sparks an online frenzy. Amateur investigators descend on the rural idyll. Everyone has a theory. Is Claire Davidson just the story of a swim that went wrong, or could there be truth to the conspiracies? Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Sifting Through Secrets by Catherine Bruns (Cozy Mystery)
When full time baker and reluctant part time sleuth, Sally Muccio, agrees to cater a glamorous baby shower at a customer’s lavish home, she expects a day full of strawberry lemonade cookies, vanilla buttercream icing, and minimal drama. What she doesn’t expect is for the grandma-to-be to offer her fifty thousand dollars to find out who’s trying to kill her. Format: Digital, Print
Dreidels and Dead Ends by Nancy J. Cohen (Cozy Mystery)
When salon owner Marla Vail agrees to speak at the local history museum’s gala opening for a new exhibit, she expects applause—not a catastrophe. But shortly after she takes the stage, a thief steals the featured diamond-studded hairbrush, leaving behind an empty display case and a badly injured security guard. Format: Digital, Print
The Driftwood Bones by Peter Colt (Police Procedural)
Detective Tommy Kelly has been exiled to Nantucket as the island’s lone state trooper—punishment for professional misconduct that left him isolated, bitter, and relegated to traffic violations. For a homicide detective, there isn’t much to do in a place others call paradise. Until a young woman is found floating in the harbor in Pocomo. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
A Bitter Cut by Anna Lee Huber (Historical Mystery 1830s)
Lady Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, are settling into their newly renovated home at Bevington Park in Warkwickshire with their young daughter. With the breach between them and Sebastian’s father recently healed, they’ve agreed to help host a country house party for friends and family to share in their joy. Kiera is also anxious to help promote a match between her brother, Trevor, and the woman he’s fallen in love with, inviting her family to join them. However, Kiera swiftly discovers that the would-be bride’s family is not without their detractions. Her brother is unpleasant. Her mother is abrasive. And her father—the prosperous industrialist Jeremiah Birnam—is brusque, discourteous, and, at times, downright rude. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
It Could Have Been Her by Lisa Jewell (Psychological Thriller)
Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate when a small white terrier appears, alone and with no sign of the teenaged girl he’d been staying with nearby. When the teenager is reported missing, Jane offers to return the dog to his registered owner, hours away in London. Arriving at a run-down house called Thornwood in the deepest backwaters of Hampstead, she is immediately on alert—because Jane has a dark history with this house. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Wait and See by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen (Private Investigator Mystery)
When Kendra Michaels receives a cryptic message from her sometimes-paramour Adam Lynch, she concludes that he must be in extreme danger—the kind where he can’t trust his FBI and Justice department colleagues to rescue him. Lynch has saved Kendra’s life during past investigations so she’s immediately willing to put everything on the line for him. With her heightened senses, honed in the dark before she regained her eyesight in a cutting-edge surgical procedure, Kendra knows she can do what the federal agents cannot. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Suite Charity by Richard Tyler Jordan (Cozy Mystery)
Timothy Trousdale came to New York to become a rich and famous bestselling author. Instead, he keeps tripping over murdered bodies, in this sharp, humorous cozy mystery. Fresh out of community college and broke, Timothy is convinced success is just one lucky break away. What he finds is a punishing parade of humiliating temp jobs—until a miracle occurs. SwellHire Top Temps places him in a paid internship at the Adele Cummings Foundation for the Arts, a glittering charity where millions flow freely and no one hears how pretentious they sound. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Exit Wound by Isabella Maldonado (Police Procedural)
Detective Veranda Cruz’s single-minded mission to destroy the Villalobos crime family has cost her more than she ever would have imagined, both professionally and personally. And put her squarely in their sights. A brutal enforcer has agreed to turn state’s evidence, offering vital information that will end the Villalobos dynasty’s thirty-year reign of terror. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Deadly Ruse by Kate Parker (Historical Mystery 1940s)
When British spy Olivia Redmond is summoned again by her elusive spymaster, she’s expecting danger–not an invitation to teach drawing to captured German generals at Trent Park House. But beneath the genteel cover of sketches and civility lies a deadly ruse: the lavish POW mansion is wired for sound, every whispered secret a weapon in Britain’s intelligence war. Format: Digital, Print
The Grapevine by Alexandra Sokoloff & Craig Robertson (Psychological Thriller) *first book in a new series*
Lou Gomersall’s going as far as it takes. And there’s no turning back. When her nineteen-year-old daughter Abby disappears, Lou embarks on a reckless road trip in the family RV, scouring the highways and back roads of California. Through desert and mountains, into the woods, and to the ocean’s edge. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Nine Lives by Catherine Steadman (Psychological Thriller)
Reeling from a very recent divorce, Frankie has moved into a glamorous London neighborhood. This is a new chapter in her life. She’s decided to put down roots with Blue, the beautiful Persian cat she left her marriage with. But little doubts about her perfect new life start to grow, and when Blue returns one night from slipping into places he shouldn’t, Frankie’s concerns solidify. Two words are roughly scratched into his collar: help me. Unsettled and unwilling to ignore the incident, Frankie roots out an old unused “cat cam” collar. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Don’t Upstage the Body by Naomi Stephens (Historical Mystery 1950s)
Hippolyta Halfpenny and her family have mastered the business of bereavement. As professional mourners, they are so accomplished that even Lord Basil Monfort, the famous and wealthy recluse, engages the family’s services for his own funeral. Tired of disguises and aliases, Hippolyta vows it will be her last performance. Then she discovers the undertaker’s body during the wake and finds herself cast as an amateur sleuth in an increasingly unpredictable investigation. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
JUNE 24
Murder at Millmerran House by Raven Corbin (Traditional Mystery) *first book in a new series*
In the abandoned gothic town of Bitterport, Tasmania, Millmerran House has been waiting. When London hotelier Aiden Bellingan inherits the neglected Victorian estate, he discovers the renovation comes with a resident ghost — Elvira Brown silenced in 1945, and furious about it. Interior designer Marielle McGregor knows she shouldn’t take the job. The mansion already claimed her father, who vanished while uncovering its wartime secrets. But Elvira is surprisingly helpful for a dead woman, and Aiden is surprisingly hard to resist. Format: Digital, Print
Waves of Burden by Curtis Ippolito (Crime Thriller)
Drew Jones is trying to scrape a life together. A long-time resident of San Diego County’s foster care system, distrust, shock, and danger are all he’s ever known. Now married, with a contracting business he’s trying to get off the ground and a kid on the way, all he wants is enough for a down payment on a house and to know his family has the kind of security he could never have dreamed of. Format: Digital, Print
The Case of the Christie Wedding Affair by Kelly Oliver (Historical Mystery 1930s)
Agatha Christie is getting married. She invites fellow members of the Detection Club to the windswept Isle of Skye for a quiet break while the banns are read. But tranquility proves elusive when the formidable Lord Blackwood, leader of a hunting party sharing their lodge, vanishes from the moors. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
JUNE 25
Flashes of Fire and Fury by Lynda Allen (Traditional Mystery)
Liv knew it would be impossible to hide her menopausal superpower in a small town, but she never imagined the unwanted attention it would attract. Now, her hot flash-induced psychic visions have put her in the sights of a religious fanatic, who sends Liv a series of letters quoting increasingly disturbing biblical punishments for witches. Format: Digital, Print
Murder at the Country Fair by Merryn Allingham (Cozy Mystery)
It’s the perfect day for Abbeymead’s autumn fair. The village green has been transformed into a riot of stalls and tents, and Flora and Jack are keen to sample all the local produce. But when local cheesemaker Gilbert Barrow crashes into the fair, he brings the festivities to a dead halt Format: Digital, Print
JUNE 26
A Fatal Exhibition by Lorraine Bartlett (Cozy Mystery)
The Bonner Gallery at the Victoria Square Annex opens with a well-attended cocktail party hosted by Katie Bonner’s mother-in-law, Margo. As the evening winds down, property manager Nate McKenzie arrives to help lock up. After Katie and Margo leave, Nate makes one last round of the building to ensure everything is secure. The following day, Katie makes a shocking discovery—Nathan’s body in the gallery’s men’s room. Format: Digital, Print
Note: in some cases, print releases for digital titles will be forthcoming.
Publication date subject to change