Searching for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing the week of March 1 – 7, 2026 with three debut series. I hope a few of these books take you on a reading adventure!

MARCH 1
Deadly Delivery by Ellen Barksdale (Cozy Mystery)
A perfectly normal, peaceful evening in the Black Feather is shattered when a woman storms into the pub. She spots Louise, presses a parcel into her hand and then collapses – dead! Louise is horrified to realise she knows the woman. It’s her former colleague, agent Glenda Brannigan. Nathalie and Louise barely have time to recover from the shock before the next woman bursts in and accuses Nathalie of setting fire to her car! What’s going on in Earlsraven? Nathalie and Louise are determined to find out… Format: Digital, Print

Manifesting and Mischief by Beth Dolgner (Paranormal Cozy Mystery)
Wintertime in Foxfire Haven heats up with the arrival of a brash witch intent on buying the town newspaper. At the same time, other newcomers to the magical town are raising eyebrows everywhere they go. When the witch winds up dead, Hazel Underwood is determined to solve the murder. After all, a member of her own coven is one of the suspects. Did Jo kill just to protect her career with the newspaper? Format: Digital, Print

Two Bodies Are Better Than One by Erica Ruth Neubauer (Traditional Mystery) *first book in a new series*
Until 1989, the wildest thing to happen in the sleepy town of Sheboygan Bay was surfers catching waves on frigid Lake Michigan. Then one summer morning, Lorraine Highsmith wakes up to find a corpse on her lawn. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Murder by the Book by Dorothea Stiller (Cozy Mystery) *first book in a new series*
No sooner has June settled into her aunt’s house in Lower Foxdale than tragedy strikes: her retired neighbour, Professor Leighton, is found dead at the bottom of his staircase. The police suspect a tragic accident, but June has her doubts. Just before his death, the professor confided in her about a significant discovery he intended to keep secret. As June investigates, she uncovers clues pointing to a long-lost, immensely valuable book. Format: Digital, Print

I Came Back for You by Kate White (Psychological Thriller)
Ten years after her daughter, Melanie, was murdered, Bree Winter is finally moving on with a new love, a new home, and a new beginning. Then a deathbed confession from the convicted killer throws Bree’s life into a tailspin all over again. He readily confesses to murdering four girls. But not Melanie. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

MARCH 2
Something Prowling in Paradise Park by Kris Bock (Cozy Mystery)
Kate Tessler may have thought her days of chasing danger were over. But the former war correspondent’s “retirement” in sunny Paradise, Arizona, is anything but quiet. With her eccentric circle of friends and colleagues, Kate has built a new life—full of mysteries, mayhem, and the occasional stakeout—as she works towards earning her PI license. Format: Digital, Print

MARCH 3
She Drinks the Light by Yasmin Angoe (Young Adult)
Addae has spent her whole life on the Golden Isle, a private island off the coast of South Carolina that has been in her family for centuries. Island residents don’t really fraternize with mainlanders, and for good reason. Golden Isle was founded by the Kinfolk, descendants—including Addae and her Nana Ama, the island matriarch—of escaped enslaved Black people. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives by Elizabeth Arnott (Psychological Thriller)
Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted killers. During the sun-drenched summer of 1966, the three women form an unlikely friendship after the discoveries of their husbands’ brutal crimes. With their exes—some of California’s most infamous murderers—dead or behind bars, they are attempting to forge a new future for themselves. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Poured Out by Steve Exeter (Cozy Mystery)
Wine influencer turned accidental sleuth Francine Witt heads to New York’s most exclusive gala expecting glamour, gossip, and good champagne. Instead, she finds a perfectly curated family tableau with one glaring flaw: someone is missing. As whispers spread about a figure erased from the Moncrief legacy, the dynasty’s polished façade starts to unravel. Accidents turn deadly, and anyone who gets too close to the truth is quickly silenced. Format: Digital, Print

The Bark Before the Dawn by Sarah Fox
Arriving home to her beloved farmhouse after a successful trip with her boyfriend, Callum, Georgie Johansen feels utterly contented. Until she discovers a dark figure watching her from the bushes! A prowler on your property is creepy enough to warrant a call to the police, right? But when Georgie’s ID matches that of a body discovered the next day at Twilight Cove’s Seabreeze Motel, things take a bizarre turn. Especially when Georgie realizes she met the murder victim at the airport in Florida. Format: Digital, Print

The Primrose Murder Society by Stacy Hackney (Cozy Mystery)
Lila Shaw stopped trusting anyone the minute her husband went to jail for white-collar crime, taking their country club lifestyle with him. Now Lila is broke, friendless, and losing her house—and to make things worse, her true-crime-obsessed daughter, Bea, was just expelled from fourth grade. Desperate for a fresh start, Lila agrees to temporarily move in and clean out an abandoned junk-filled apartment in Richmond’s palatial Primrose building. The luxurious Virginia landmark is filled with retirees who start their days early drinking bourbon and gossiping, in that order. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Death in the Palace by Barbara Hambly (Historical Mystery 1920s)
Beautiful silent-movie star Camille de la Rose—Kitty, to her adoring fans—is amused to receive an unusual proposal from an extremely rich stranger. Clark Dexter offers her $50,000 if she will marry and then divorce him. Young British widow Emma Blackstone, Kitty’s dog walker, companion, and dearest friend, is determined to talk her employer out of it. Emma might have been living in the topsy-turvy world of Hollywood for a year now, but she knows a bad idea when she hears one. Format: Digital, Print

The Ex-Wives Murder Club by Mette Ivie Harrison (Suspense)
What do you do when you realize you married a horrible man? Kill him of course! For Meg (wife #1), Jenny (#2), and Amelia (#3), the term ‘a woman scorned’ isn’t strong enough. They want more than revenge for the years of their life they wasted with their pitiful excuse for a husband. They want him dead. Format: Digital, Print

I Did Not Kill My Husband by Linda Keir (Domestic Thriller)
LA lifestyle influencer Cara Campbell is living the rags-to-riches dream with her plastic surgeon husband, Karl, and posting all about it on social media. But her happily ever after evaporates when she’s given a life sentence for murdering Karl during a romantic getaway. All evidence points to her, and her platform—as an unabashed gold digger—makes her look guilty as hell. Karl’s struggling business and million-dollar life insurance policy add plenty of motive. But the one thing Cara knows for sure is she didn’t do it. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

The Best Little Motel in Texas by Lyla Lane (Humorous Mystery)
After a childhood spent combing the dive bars of Sarsaparilla Falls to collect her fun-loving momma, Cordelia West now enjoys a simple, respectable life in Dallas. Then one phone call from the hometown she’s spent years trying to forget throws it into chaos. Cordelia’s great-aunt Penelope has passed away, naming Cordelia the sole heir to the Chickadee Motel. She has no memory of a great-aunt and no interest in hospitality, but the will stipulates that the motel can’t be sold until its residents leave or pass away – so she reluctantly heads back down to Sarsaparilla Falls to figure out who’s living in the Chickadee, and how to get them out. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Deadly Triangle by Lizbeth Lipperman (Romantic Suspense)
When Detective Madelyn Castillo and her new partner, Lieutenant Gary Mitchell, are called to the scene of what appears to be a murder–suicide, they quickly realize the truth is far more disturbing. The crime has been carefully staged—and it’s only the beginning. Format: Digital, Print

Buried in a Book by T.C. LoTempio (Cozy Mystery)
Retired thriller author and current bookshop owner Charley James is preparing for Halloween in her small hometown of Austin, Pennsylvania—what she isn’t prepared for is discovering the body of a woman at the local inn. Charley recognizes the stranger as a suspicious customer who popped in just to hide a rather peculiar book at her store—did she already know she was about to lose her life for it? Format: Digital, Print

The Star from Calcutta by Sujata Massey (Historical Mystery 1920s)
Perveen Mistry, the only female lawyer in Bombay, has secured her biggest client yet: Champa Films, a movie studio run by director Subhas Ghoshal and his wife, Rochana, the biggest name in Indian cinema. In the public eye, Rochana is notorious for her beauty and her daring stunts—behind the scenes, she has recently left the studio in Calcutta that made her famous, and the studio owner is enraged by what he claims is a breach of contract. Rochana needs Perveen’s legal help to extricate Champa Films from the impending controversy. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Raging Waters by Dana Mentink (Romantic Suspense)
When Mackenzie Bardine’s brother Aaron was murdered in a drug deal gone wrong, she started a true crime podcast dedicated to exposing “Bullseye,” the drug kingpin responsible. But her protective heart has never let go of the blame she places on herself and Aaron’s best friend, Gideon Landry. On the run to the wilds of Washington to chase a recent lead, she meets none other than Gideon himself. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

A Defiant Woman by Karen E. Olson (Domestic Suspense)
Eight years ago, Nan Tudor escaped her husband, billionaire businessman Hank Tudor, afraid for her life and leaving a dead body behind—but in doing so, she abandoned her three-year-old daughter, Lizzie. Still wracked with guilt for that decision, she is living a quiet life as a restaurant cook in France with her son when she receives a mysterious text: “We have your daughter.” Format: Digital, Print, Audio

A Ghastly Catastrophe by Deanna Raybourn (Historical Mystery)
When the corpse of an entitled young man is found entirely drained of blood in a carriage next to Highgate Cemetery, Veronica’s interest is piqued. And then a second victim is found, his death made to look like a suicide—and Veronica and her intrepid beau Stoker know the hunt is on. The two men share one link: they were both members of a society so secretive that only a singular mention of it can be found anywhere. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

The Gardener’s Club by Marnie Riches (Traditional Mystery)
When Gill Swanley decides to take up gardening to fight a bad case of midlife malaise, she never expected it to become quite such a dangerous hobby. Pushing herself to “get out there,” Gill picks herself up the secateurs and joins the Bromley Botanists. Here she finds a seven-strong group whose main agenda is how to win the coveted Golden Trowel for best community club of the year. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Three Marys by Robin Somers (Traditional Mystery)
The community turns inward in fear. Wooley, following her own instincts and a series of deadend trails, worries that this year’s Rodeo Queen may be the next victim. During a high-country excursion to Me-Wuk sacred grounds to foil a scheme to dam the Little Bear River, wildfire breaks out again. Anishinaabe wilderness guide Leonard Parker appears again and continues to surprise. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Death in Surfside by Caleb Wygal (Traditional Mystery)
Clark Thomas thought life would slow down after marrying former detective Gina Gomez and settling into their new life together. But when a friend from Clark’s past, Sophie Caldwell, is discovered murdered by the pool at her beach house in Surfside Beach, the calm Clark envisioned is shattered. Sophie’s husband, Daniel, is nowhere to be found. Format: Digital, Print

MARCH 4
A Coffin Full of Pineapples by Hilary U. Cohen (Cozy Mystery)
After prevailing in A Turquoise Grave, popular heroine Maggie Mullaley is back to take on the Amalgamated Fruit Company when this giant industrial agriculture conglomerate moves in on tiny St. Vincent. Maggie, a part time lawyer on her days off from sailing, gets drawn into the fight of local pineapple farmers to hold onto their land Format: Digital, Print

Chocolate Cupcakes and Murder by Lucinda Race (Cozy Mystery)
After her beloved bakery goes up in flames, former FBI data analyst Temperance Matthews is determined to rise from the ashes—literally. With the support of her best friend Josie, her loyal dachshund Hank, and a budding home kitchen renovation, she’s baking her way back into business in the small town of Oak Hollow. Format: Digital, Print

MARCH 5
The Woman in the Water by Henrietta McKervey (Historical Mystery)
Pearl Day has always lived in the background – companion to her childhood friend, the dazzling and unpredictable Lady Eleanor Nicholson. Their bond was forged at Alderleigh, Eleanor’s crumbling country estate, but now they share a sleek London home where Eleanor’s life of indulgence is spiralling into chaos. Format: Digital, Print

The Harvey Girl by Dana Stabenow (Historical Mystery 1890s)
The New Mexico Territory is a lawless frontier where criminals steal money and land alike with impunity. Everyone wears a six-gun and is ready and willing to draw it. In the new city of Montaña Roja, Fred Harvey’s growing empire is threatened by the robberies plaguing his newest Harvey House restaurant. To get justice, he needs a skilled detective to go undercover and procure answers to questions the law will not ask. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

MARCH 6
The Stranger in My Bed by Amanda McKinney (Psychological Thriller)
When my husband’s body washed up on a remote riverbank, the media swarmed. They called it an accident. Then a scandal. Then they called me a suspect. So I disappeared. New state. New life. New tenant. Format: Digital, Print, Audio

Note: in some cases, print releases for digital titles will be forthcoming.
Publication date subject to change